Update: To Jay, with all due respect, I most heartily disagree with you. Clinton may have been negligent in not involving himself in Africa (as well as being a male 'hoe', if you will), but America has never really been much interested in Africa, ever. Wholesale murder, slavery, famine, and atrocities are, unfortunately, all too common throughout Africa's history (Idi Amin, the Congo, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa, etc.). We don't involve ourselves over there more because our interests are limited as opposed to the Middle East. Bush would've kicked some ass? Doubtful. I agree that morally it would be nice if we went into oppressive countries the world over and consistently tried to do the right thing, but we don't. Morality has nothing (or, being charitable here, little) to do with it. We condemn Castro because he's a Communist, but we wholeheartedly supported Papa Doc Duvalier in Haiti throughout his oppressive, murderous career. Where is there any moral consistency? The truth is, there is none. It comes down to realpolitik and not morality. Yeah, Sadaam was a monster, but he was as much a monster during all those years we supported him. We've historically always been willing to support murderous dictators and regimes when it's of perceived benefit to our own interests (business and/or political).---I agree absolutely with CanadaSucks on this one. What in the name of God has happened to our moral conscience? Somewhere between Watergate and Iran-Contra, it seemingly evaporated. I was never Clinton's biggest fan, and I'm still not, but people really have the stones to equate a backroom bl**job with what's going on in Iraq? Are you kidding? We were blatantly, shamelessly, callously lied to about WMD's in order to involve us in this debacle, and as people die every single day (Iraqis and Americans both), with no end in sight, we're still being lied to. The so-called party of fiscal-responsibility has squandered billions of dollars on this fiasco...again, with no end in sight. Osama Bin Laden has become a forgotten man, wandering about in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, assuredly relishing his continued freedom and immunity, thanks be to George. And instead of rising up in righteous indignation and rage, a large portion of the American populace continues to meander about like tamed, complacent sheep, watching the TV news reports on Michael Jackson's trial and Runaway Bride and Bill O'Reilly's ire about rap lyrics. All the death and carnage and waste vs. lying about a bl**job? There's some sort of moral equivalency there? You sometimes have to wonder what George would have to do before people awoke from their coma (like the Republican fantasy about Teri Schiavo) and became enraged en masse. Spend a weekend with Michael at Neverland Ranch? Cheat on his perpetually-smiling, robotic wife with some intern floozy? Announce that he's had an epiphany and now worships Allah instead of Jesus?
