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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

How is Hillary Clinton exactly like Richard Nixon

Matt Taibbi explains
The Iraq war has surely produced many landmark moments in the history of American cynicism -- Bob Ney storming the House cafeteria to crusade against French fries before jetting off to a Scottish golf junket with Jack Abramoff is a particular favorite of mine -- but no one in the whole course of this conflict, not even George Bush, has yet sunk as low as Hillary's Democrats are sinking now. They're making a conscious effort to try to cash in politically on the Iraq catastrophe without making any admission of culpability or responsibility, hoping to limp across the finish line first in the midterm elections with nothing but a semantic absurdity -- for the invasion, against its "execution" -- for a war policy.
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