The Patriot Post® · Clinton Changes Course

Bill Clinton has always been adept at navigating the political winds. The subject of Iraq is no different. Rebutting Dick Cheney, Clinton said, “If they [the Bush administration] hadn’t gone to war in Iraq, none of this would be happening. Iraq would not have been, in effect, drastically altered as it has been.” He took direct aim at Cheney, hitting him for “attacking [this] administration for not doing an adequate job cleaning up the mess that he made. And I think it’s unseemly.” Cheney got the better of that argument, firing back, “If there’s somebody who knows something about unseemly, it’s Bill Clinton.” But back in 2004, Clinton sang a different tune: I have repeatedly defended President Bush on Iraq.“ Indeed he had – until it become politically expedient to do otherwise, just like every other Democrat.