Are You Sitting Down?

Here's a shock for you:

In twin moves that amount to a 180 degree reversal of their previous positions, former President Bill Clinton called the Iraq war yesterday "a big mistake," while his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, voted for a Democratic bill that would announce a timetable for U.S. withdrawal.

The Clintons reversing themselves for political gain? Say it isn't so!! Read the rest of the piece, it's as nauseating as the first part.

Wait, just wait. When more and more good news is coming out of Iraq, when their government is in place and functioning, when our mission is basically accomplished and they are successfully governing and protecting themselves, the Clintons will say, "Hey, I supported this all along!"

Geez, I can't stand those people.

JAS adds: Here’s what Mr. Bill said about that “big mistake” seven years ago:

"Let's imagine the future," Clinton said seven years ago. "What if [Saddam] fails to comply [with U.N. sanctions], and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction and continue to press for the release of the sanctions and continue to ignore the solemn commitments that he made?"

Clinton warned: "He will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction.

"And some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal."

The RNC has included that speech in a new video that they should frankly have come out with two years ago.

But Clinton’s stance today displays consistency of a sort – just ask the Israelis:

Ex-president Bill Clinton urged Israelis over the weekend not to overreact to comments by newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recommending that Israel be "wiped off the map."

Speaking at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on Saturday, Clinton acknowledged that the remark was "outrageous," but he cautioned that the Iranian leader was "not elected because of his hatred for Israel or the West."

"He was elected because of the economic distress of ordinary Iranians, and which he promised to relieve by giving them financial assistance," Clinton explained, according to the Jerusalem Post.

He warned Israel not to act unilaterally when reacting to terrorist threats, saying that "true peace and security can only come through principled compromise."

Clinton urged Israelis to "organize their politics" so "their search for peace can continue" regardless of domestic policies.

Ahmadinejad wasn’t “elected” at all, as Sick Willie damn well knows. His attempt to make the mad Iranian figurehead/catspaw sound like a good liberal Democrat displays a contempt for the intelligence of his listeners that manages to be breathtaking despite the fact that it should not be after all these years.

That he baldly recommends continued and stepped-up appeasement of the Jewish state’s bloodthirsty enemies is little short of anti-Semitic. But that’s nothing new for this man, either.

Maybe he’s afraid Jimmy Carter’s new book will out-sell his so he’s trying to one-up the Squire of Plains as a roving international buttinsky. Or else he’s campaigning for Kofi Annan’s job.

Can’t have his wife out-ranking him, after all.