Thursday, February 08, 2007

Billy Martin said it best

There's an interesting editorial written for today's Wall Street Journal.

The Journal delve's deeper into the words of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who for months has been saying about her 2002 vote to authorize military action in Iraq...

"Obviously, if we knew then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a vote and I certainly wouldn't have voted that way."

Per the editorial...

October 10, 2002. Mrs. Clinton addresses the Senate on the use-of-force resolution. "The facts that have brought us to this fateful vote are not in doubt," she declares, citing Saddam's record of using chemical weapons, the invasion of Kuwait, and his history of deceiving U.N. weapons inspectors. "As a result, President Clinton, with the British and others, ordered an intensive four-day air assault, Operation Desert Fox, on known and suspected weapons of mass destruction sites and other military targets," she continues, adding that Saddam "has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members."

While she expresses her preference for working through the U.N. if possible, she adds, "I believe the authority to use force to enforce that mandate is inherent in the original 1991 U.N. resolution, as President Clinton recognized when he launched Operation Desert Fox in 1998."

December 15, 2003.

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"I was one who supported giving President Bush the authority, if necessary, to use force against Saddam Hussein. I believe that that was the right vote."

April 20, 2004. Mrs. Clinton tells Larry King: "I don't regret giving the President the authority because at the time it was in the context of weapons of mass destruction, grave threats to the United States, and clearly, Saddam Hussein had been a real problem for the international community for more than a decade." Asked whether she thinks she was "fooled," she replies: "The consensus was the same, from the Clinton Administration to the Bush Administration. It was the same intelligence belief that our allies and friends around the world shared about the weapons of mass destruction."

Interesting!

Fast forwarding to a couple of weeks ago in Iowa...

"At the time, I said 'This is not a vote for pre-emptive war.' I said that on the floor of the Senate...He took the authority that I and others gave him, and he misused it and I regret that deeply... "If we knew then what we know now, there never would have been a vote. I never would have voted to give this president that authority."

Was HRC lying in 2002, 2003 and 2004?

Or, for her selfish political purposes, is she lying today?

Dick Morris, who advised Bill Clinton, had this to say about the Clinton's recently...

"...Bill lies about sex, Hillary lies about everything."

He should know and now so does America.

Which leads me to Billy Martin, "One's a born liar; the other's convicted."

He was talking about Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner, but it's highly accurate here!

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