Once again Dems must praise administration

Saddam Hussein's capture is a tribute to the skill and bravery of our troops and the good work of our intelligence officers," Clinton said. "I know President Bush is very proud of our troops today. I congratulate him and them."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64310-2003Dec14.html

Hearing Bill Clinton congratulate pResident Bush on anything is not. This comment strikes me as being wrong on so many fronts that I am limited to only one thing I can think of saying.

WTF?????

Whether one likes Bush or not is irrelevant to how huge this is for the Iraqi people. Although Saddam's capture certainly doesn't mean the end of the insurgent movement against US forces, it does signify a huge step for the Iraqi people. Mentally and perhaps emotionally, they can really start to move on and focus on the future of their own country. Just like Clark is taking time out of his campaign to testify against Milosevic (Mon./Tues) at the Hague, we need to understand that some things are bigger than politics.

Hussein was caught by US forces under Bush's watch, so he gets the credit. To only applaud US forces and not the President would appear to be playing partisan politics and would only make Dems look bad. That doesn't mean any of us believe Bush is doing anything else right.

First you post for Kerry to the point people want you removed from the board. Then you suddenly switch to Dean. Now you're encouraging Democrats to say embarrassing things about the capture of Saddam. Hmmmm.

Let's see.

Iraq, beaten down by 10 years of sanctions, with less than half of its 1990 conventional ability to defend itself, and according to the 1998 UNSCOM inspection team with less than 10% of its "forbidden" cache of US-assisted WMD, with a population the mean age of which was only 15 years old, is invaded by the world's most bloated, over-technologied, massive armed force in the history of the world.

This after the American people are led down a primrose path to illegal invasion so deviant from the reality that the American people can't understand why the biggest demonstrations in the history of the world oppose its rash action, through blatant lies told by an administration that has in its possession the information that Iraq poses NO ability to attack us, has NO verifiable connection to the terrorist groups that attacked US landmarks on Sep. 11th, 2001, and has only ZERO to 10% of its (US prerequisite-supplied) WMD unaccounted for.

This after the so-called leader of the free world is UNABLE to capture the Al Qaeda leader, UNABLE to capture the anthrax terrorist, and UNABLE to watch TV and eat a pretzel at the same time.

Having chosen LIES AND DECEPTION in lieu of keeping America safe from terrorism, it still took him EIGHT MONTHS after invading this pitiful sandpit of oil to find the tinhorn dictator of this target of distraction from his failings as both a leader and as a commander-in-chief supposedly "keeping us safe" from terrorism.

And FOR THIS he is lauded as some kind of success?

By the same people, no doubt, who bought and paid for this washed-up drunk and coke-head's inability to make it in business on his own prior to having been vaulted into the Presidency by the Bush mafia and the Skull & Bones network.

This obnoxious dry-drunk sociopathic failure had to play his Saddam card early, because he sucks as a leader.

If we're lucky, he'll have to play ALL his cards before the November election.

COURAGE, AMERICA!

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota