At least when Bill Clinton lied, nobody died.

First, Bush was acting on the best intelligence of the US and British governments and did not lie about that.

Second, the Plame affair has shown that Iraqi agents were involved with the purchase of fissionable materials. More evidence of WMD. See Christopher Hitchens, who has done yeoman work.

Third, your mantra is short enough to go on a bumper sticker and is about as deep.

Cheapjack sloganeering is confused with thought only by people who wrestle with thought. Gullibility is amorphous. Why are you wasting your time reading this blog when you could be making thousands of dollars a day at home with your computer, or ordering more penis-enhancement pills?

I agree with the fact that slogans are mistaken for deep thoughts. However, I don't believe that Clinton's affair should've ever been brought up. It was his personal decision to sleep with someone other that his wife. The decision to lie under oath was not only wrong, but illegal. Yet, everyone is human.

As for the situation with Iraq...I'm not terribly informed on it. Getting the truth about what is going on over there is nearly impossible to get. The press is always telling the negative sides of the story, whilst the government is constantly being gun-ho and telling us that things are getting better.

The mistake with Iraq was declaring, "Mission Accomplished," before the mission really began.

As for President Bush, he still struggles with his own defense in his speeches to the nation. He created his own legacy for the history books - he must now live with it. History can, and is, re-written, but that takes generations.

His planned library at SMU is a financial non-starter and faces over a dozen legal challenges - some from within the university itself. The stigma seems to outweighing the benifits of a presidential library there.

General Patton said that one must never defend the indefensible. There is even more truth to that in politics.

Justin, Anonymous #2, thanks for your comments. Justin, no Clinton's adultery was his own affair in every sense of the word, between him and his wife. One might think that the CEO of a Fortune 500 company who had done that would have been forced to resign instantly, but Clinton has always enjoyed an eerie immunity. And it was the lying which was the cause of the impeachment, and claims that the impeachment was for sex are nothing but a red herring to make people who disapprove of sleaze and lies appear to be puritanical and therefore risible. Let's also not forget that the people who refuse to condemn for sleaze are giving themselves absolution in advance, so that they can do what they want and when anyone who insists on good behavior gets caught, and people will, then hoots of hypocrisy can be sounded. Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. People who refuse to condemn have set the bar so low that they are not fit to lead.

General Petraeus, who does not betray us, is doing a smashing job in Iraq. The communications of al Qaeda are being sundered, and their finances constrained. Entire villages are coming to the American side, if they perceive that the Americans mean to establish order. It's order that they want and that will fetch them.

I wonder at the media's insistence on failure. Was it revenge at success being declared too soon? Or is it merely a preference? More and more I think that, with the possible exception of Charles Krauthammer, the modern journalist is more a creature of tastes rather than ethics. And why not? in their own little world there is nothing to keep them from the self-absorption and arrogance which attends elites who talk only to themselves as equals, and openly sneer at "fly-over" country. The reporter becomes lost in solipsism and believes that it's all about him. Note the coverage that you see--the reporter so often treats the story as a part of his life, instead of the lives of others which he ought to cover. But that wouldn't allow for the radical individualism which we all so prize these days.

So the news that we get is a reflection of their tastes and not the world, and the very existence of the alternative media--talk radio, blogging--and its power is proof that there is a vacuum the MSM left and which will be filled.

One could say that if it weren't for Dan Rather there would be no need for Rush Limbaugh.

The sad thing about war is that only those who have never participated in combat believe in it. To have lived it is to know how futile, how abominable it is.
For the top ranks, to further their careers, war can be talked up to the Press as a great necessity; they become the spokesmen of political parties rather than the spokesmen of the men on the ground.
Lifelong civilians and those who never saw combat start wars, perpetuate wars, and defend their position as if they themselves were participants. They order young men to their deaths and sleep well at night, safe in their beds, with no thought in their heads beyond furthering their careers and wielding power over America.

The sad thing about war is that only those who have never participated in combat believe in it.

Then why do combat veterans re-enlist and sometimes return to theaters of operation three and sometimes four times?

To have lived it is to know how futile, how abominable it is.

Everyone knows it is abominable. Sometimes it is futile. Sometimes it is necessary.

Lifelong civilians and those who never saw combat start wars, perpetuate wars, and defend their position as if they themselves were participants. They order young men to their deaths and sleep well at night, safe in their beds, with no thought in their heads beyond furthering their careers and wielding power over America.

Much too long to fit on a protest banner trotted out along side those ridiculously large puppets but that is where it belongs.

I prefer George Orwell's: “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”