You know how Cheney keeps trotting out 9/11 as an excuse for the mess in Iraq, even though the two had nothing to do with each other?
Well, guess which Democratic presidential candidate has decided that equating Iraq with 9/11 is a good idea?
Though I've already given away the answer in the title of this post, I'm sure most of you would've guess the answer anyway.
Attention focused on Iraq and her vote to authorize the use of force ahead of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. Presidential rivals such as former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards now say the vote in support was a mistake.
"There are no do-overs in life," Clinton said. She says Congress received bad information going into the vote and that she would have voted differently given what she knows now.
"As a senator from New York, I lived through 9/11 and I am still dealing with the aftereffects," Clinton said. "I may have a slightly different take on this from some of the other people who will be coming through here."
Clinton said her view is that the nation is engaged in a deadly fight against terrorism, a battle that she contends Bush has botched.
"I do think we are engaged in a war against heartless, ruthless enemies," she said. "If they could come after us again tomorrow they would do so."
Cheney and the neocons at PNAC are beaming with pride.
And no, the problem isn't that Bush botched the war. It's that he started the wrong one. With Hillary's help, of course.