Hillary Rodham Clinton has the most artificial smile I have ever seen, and I must say, bogus displaying of choppers aside, I have never been very enamoured with Hillary Clinton or her husband, and I have never trusted either of them. Bill Clinton's tenure was riddled with mediocrity; he achieved nothing spectacular in his eight years in office. His policy of cutting defence-spending was itself a good thing, but the American government grossly underestimated the insidious rise of Islamic fundamentalism that was burgeoning in the nineties (his government also failed to capture Osama bin Laden after the attack on the World Trade Centre in 1993 - a mistake which has had brutal consequences ever since), and also the dreadful error of judgement in bombing Khartoum.
Hillary Clinton's implication that in voting for her the American people will get her husband too might have contributed to her downfall. To her credit she was instrumental in getting her husband to intervene militarily in Bosnia and Kosovo (although why he failed to see it for himself is, or was, perhaps a more significant point to be addressed). But there are several black marks against Mrs. Clinton. In the first place, the enchanting smell of power and prestige was enough for her to put up with her husband's infidelity (one of the biggest black marks against his name). In the second place, she has been trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people regarding Iraq. Without actually repudiating her original support for the war, she has strived hard to dissociate herself from the situation.
Mrs. Clinton, as the author of some of the more judicious arguments to justify the regime change in Iraq, is now being coerced into repudiating her original position - a repudiation which exposes her as weak and dishonest, particularly as her original support for a regime change was both unequivocal and unambiguous (she almost certainly doesn't believe privately that America's position in the Middle East should be ceded).
In 2006 President Jalal Talabani of Iraq met with George Bush and Bill Clinton and thanked them both for their efforts in helping to liberate Iraq (a man who knows the situation better than most, and a man of whom any country would be proud to call its leader). With this in mind, for Hillary Clinton to repudiate her initial support for the war was disingenuousness of the worst kind
At a time when support for the Iraq war is likely to cause dissonance amongst much of the electorate, it would be impossible for Hilary Clinton to accede to such demands without impugning the methodology of her husband's previous position and, of course, her own original position. The behaviour of Bill Clinton has been there for all to see - he has lied about his original position, claiming that he was against the war from the start just to help his wife in her campaign, a contemptible action, and one that hinted very loudly that a repeat of the Clintons in the White House would be a bad thing.
Now it does not especially matter whether you did agree, or still do agree, with her about the regime change in Iraq (as I, for once, do and did). What does matter is that she has since altered her position with a squalid manoeuvre designed to disassociate herself from her original standpoint. We have seen her these past few weeks try, with her husband's help, to make people forget that she ever held it.
Hillary Clinton's implication that in voting for her the American people will get her husband too might have contributed to her downfall. To her credit she was instrumental in getting her husband to intervene militarily in Bosnia and Kosovo (although why he failed to see it for himself is, or was, perhaps a more significant point to be addressed). But there are several black marks against Mrs. Clinton. In the first place, the enchanting smell of power and prestige was enough for her to put up with her husband's infidelity (one of the biggest black marks against his name). In the second place, she has been trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people regarding Iraq. Without actually repudiating her original support for the war, she has strived hard to dissociate herself from the situation.
Mrs. Clinton, as the author of some of the more judicious arguments to justify the regime change in Iraq, is now being coerced into repudiating her original position - a repudiation which exposes her as weak and dishonest, particularly as her original support for a regime change was both unequivocal and unambiguous (she almost certainly doesn't believe privately that America's position in the Middle East should be ceded).
In 2006 President Jalal Talabani of Iraq met with George Bush and Bill Clinton and thanked them both for their efforts in helping to liberate Iraq (a man who knows the situation better than most, and a man of whom any country would be proud to call its leader). With this in mind, for Hillary Clinton to repudiate her initial support for the war was disingenuousness of the worst kind
At a time when support for the Iraq war is likely to cause dissonance amongst much of the electorate, it would be impossible for Hilary Clinton to accede to such demands without impugning the methodology of her husband's previous position and, of course, her own original position. The behaviour of Bill Clinton has been there for all to see - he has lied about his original position, claiming that he was against the war from the start just to help his wife in her campaign, a contemptible action, and one that hinted very loudly that a repeat of the Clintons in the White House would be a bad thing.
Now it does not especially matter whether you did agree, or still do agree, with her about the regime change in Iraq (as I, for once, do and did). What does matter is that she has since altered her position with a squalid manoeuvre designed to disassociate herself from her original standpoint. We have seen her these past few weeks try, with her husband's help, to make people forget that she ever held it.
There's a book about the Clintons that is worth reading - it's called "No One Left To Lie To"
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