Reply #13: It's great for Kerry! All, repeat after me: [View All]

'No Contest: Iraq-Gate Trumps Monica-Gate'

By Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton is back in the national spotlight to promote his autobiography, just in time to remind us of how trivial his sexual shenanigans with Monica Lewinsky were compared with the Bush administration's spin job concerning its war in Iraq.
After all, no one died in Monica-gate. No one was tortured. Our international allies were shocked or amused, but not alienated.
The Bush White House, by contrast, is in full spin mode to downplay a bracing conclusion of the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission that it found "no credible evidence" that Iraq and Saddam Hussein were involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.
Team Bush turned on the media, insisting it never asserted any such connection. "This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and Al Qaeda," President Bush said. "We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda."

Full story at:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0406200434jun20,1,911685.column