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• Thursday, December 4, 2008 11:43 PM

  I don't know why people are defending Clinton

  For as long as I've been aware of politics, the left has been ambivelent about the Democrats, and mistrtustful of Clinton in particular. So, Groenhagen is arguing that Clinton and Bush were fundamentally similar on this issue. That's actually a fairly reasonable claim to make.

  Hell, Ralph Nader ran for President on that very premise (that's why I voted for himin 2000).

  Are memories so short, that people now forget that many on the "extreme left" were strident opponents of Clinton's foreign policy? Forget ariel bombing, in the heady days of my youth, my fellow leftists were protesting the devestating economic sanctions leveled on Iraq. I know, it's almost hard to believe that there was a time in this country when people could be outraged over "indirect violence," but I assure you, I was there.

  Hell, I remember very clearly the night I heard about Clinton's missle attacks against Afghanistan and Syria. I was literally jumping up and down and screaming at the news. When I learned the Syrian target was probably a pharmacuticals factory . . .

  So, if people want to bitch about Clinton and Obama, they should go right ahead. I've always felt that they were the candidates the Republicans would nominate in a saner alternate universe.

  Just don't think that that exonerates Bush. It's not as if wickedness is a limited resource. One politician being bad does not preclude another from being worse.

  War is wrong. Political violence is a terrible evil. Anyone who thinks otherwise is my political adversary. Sure, Sadaam got exactly what he deserved, but the God knows how many innocents we had to steamroll to get to him did not.

  —johntfrazer Read johntfrazer's other letters
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