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April 28, 2005
They're All Coming Out of the Woodwork Now
Yet another conservative recognizes the error of George W. Bush's ways. William Rusher, writing at WorldNetDaily, says:
In proclaiming it America's mission to spread democracy all over the world, President Bush has gone far beyond the traditional policy of the Republican Party, and even beyond the ambitious goal of Woodrow Wilson, which was (you will recall) to "make the world safe for democracy." . . .
As the Wilsonian antecedents of his policy suggest, its paternity is traceable to the Democratic rather than the Republican Party. Even at that, no administration of either party actually ever threw America's military weight around abroad in support of a cause that was less than a vital interest of the United States until Bill Clinton came along. . . .
But George W. Bush has made Clinton look like a piker. The danger that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction made pre-emption of his efforts a genuinely vital interest of the United States. But when we attacked Iraq and found no WMDs, Bush quickly shifted to justifying the war on the basis that democratizing Iraq was the only way to make it, and thereafter the rest of the Middle East, peaceful. He even insisted that this had been one of our war aims all along, and perhaps it was – but if so, it was hardly a vital interest of the United States, justifying the loss of American lives.
Where were you, Bill, when this mattered? Answer: Cheering Dubya on to reelection.
Posted by Mike Tennant at April 28, 2005 08:56 AM
Comments
It's really great that all these so-called "conservatives" are just now getting around to seeing the folly of Dubya's ways--after he's already been in power for some four-and-a-half years, after the massive damage has already been done.
If these fools had any integrity at all, they'd volunteer to slap massive stickers on their foreheads reading "LACKEY DUPE GOON OF THE STATE."
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at April 28, 2005 11:25 AM
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