Some hopeful signs that the students are still determined to win some meager measure of freedom.
CLARK ON SADDAM: Just when you get frustrated by George W. Bush’s difficulty answering simple questions with coherent answers, you hear Wesley Clark on CNN. Here he is on Saddam Hussein:
And, Wolf, the second point is, Saddam Hussein may well have been a bad guy. But since when does the United States go to war with people because we don’t like them? There’s any number of bad people around the world. Why did the president choose this particular man to go to war with? We’ve never done this before, that I know of, in American history. We picked the guy out, we made him a villain. We had him contained. We went to war with Iraq, despite the fact there was no imminent threat to the United States, no connection to 9/11. The diplomatic options were not exhausted. We didn’t have a plan as to what to do when we got to Baghdad. We didn’t have the forces to do it with. It looks to me like reckless and poor leadership, and that’s what I call it.
Almost everything in that quote is wrong. There simply aren’t many national leaders who are also mass murderers who have used chemical weapons to commit genocide, who have invaded two countries, broken the conditions of a truce with the United States, violated any number of U.N. resolutions and tried to assassinate the president of the United States. Maybe Clark could tell me who else is in that category. No one claimed that Saddam was an “imminent threat” for the umpteenth time. And, most glaring of all, the United States did not “make” Saddam a villain, no more than the U.S. “made” Milosevic a villain. That kind of crap belongs at an ANSWER rally, not in a presidential candidate. Thank God he’s losing this race badly.
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