Do You Believe This Guy?
"You're looking at a couple weeks of bombing, and then I'd be astonished if the campaign took more than a couple weeks. Astonished," said former president Bill Clinton on the David Letterman show Wednesday night. One of two things is happening. Either Clinton is doing the right thing and helping President Bush by assuring worried liberals that going to war against Iraq is the right thing to do and can be done relatively easily - or Clinton's comment is part of a deliberate political strategy to set the bar of expectations so high that if defeating Iraq takes, say, 3 months, Bush will look incompetent even in victory. I'm betting on the latter and expect we may soon begin hearing similar comments from other prominent Demcrats.