Sour Grapes

I stumbled across a liberal blog yesterday while searching for the phrase "sixteen words." Reading the gripes of Bush haters angry that we won the war in Iraq and are making progress toward "winning the peace" made me think of this excellent Cox and Forkum cartoon on the State of the Union hysterics.

It also led me to ponder... wouldn't most steadfast opponents of the liberation of Iraq be puffing their chests with pride right now if the deed had been done on Clinton's watch? Imagine the humanitarian Karma points ol' Willie could have claimed! The rest of the Clinton library would have become a mere appendix to the hall of self-aggrandizement chronicling the President's brave and selfless devotion to the helpless victims of a brutal tyrant. (And isn't that the legacy of the Clinton presidency in a nutshell - self-agrandizement of his selflessness?)

Given the former President's guiding convictions however, this is obviously a rhetorical question.