Feb 24 2009
Relocated: Who Gets All the Blame
Friday, March 14, 2008
Who gets all the blame?
So I caught a little bit of Real Time with Bill Maher the other day. Some Clinton aide was on TV talking about why it’s not hypocritcal to attack Obama for his lack of experience and optimism. The Clinton aide said that, when Bill Clinton was President, we didn’t have 9/11, we didn’t have Al Qaeda, we didn’t have Iraq. That’s why it wasn’t as important when he was running to look for somebody with a lot of experience.
I’ve gotten over (or should I say that his actions have gotten me over) defending Bush Jr. all the time. He’s messed up. BUT for anyone to try to say that Al Qaeda, or Iraq, were new during his Presidency, or to try to say that either Bill Clinton or even George Sr. couldn’t have done anything differently that would have led to a better situation in the Middle East right now is ignorant.
We had been bombing Iraq, killing its civilians, and sanctioning its economy for 15 years before the Iraq War actually started. That encompasses not only Bill’s presidency, but also a significant portion of Bush Sr.’s. In fact, Saddam tried to kill Bush Sr. And remember, we fought a war in Iraq in the ’90s.
People need to realize that the world, and our relations with it, don’t “reset” every time we decide to elect a new president. The impact of our policies many years ago can still be felt. So to say that Bill didn’t need to be as experienced as the next president should be is absurd.
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