Liar, liar (but what else is new?)

I've maintained since before the 2004 election that if the mainstream media did even 50 percent of its job and called Democrats (namely John Kerry then) on their constant misrepresentations of facts and endless array of blatant lies, President Bush would have been re-elected by a margin that would have made Nixon's landslide over McGovern in 1972 look like a dead heat.

The most recent example of that bias involves Hillary in Iowa last weekend, spouting her B.S. about Iraq and the authority that Congress gave Bush to go to war.

What she's saying now: "I said that we should not go to war unless we have allies. So he took the authority that I and others gave him and he misused it, and I regret that deeply. And if we had known then what we know now, there never would have been a vote and I never would have voted to give this president that authority."

What she said in 2003: "There is a very easy way to prevent anyone from being put into harm's way, that is for Saddam Hussein to disarm. And I have absolutely no belief that he will. I have to say that this is something I've followed for more than a decade. If he were serious about disarming, he would have been much more forthcoming. I ended up voting for the resolution after carefully reviewing the information, intelligence that I had available, talking with people whose opinions I trusted, tried to discount the political or other factors that I didn't believe should be in any way a part of this decision.

"With respect to whose responsibility it is to disarm Saddam Hussein, I just do not believe that, given the attitudes of many people in the world community today, that there would be a willingness to take on very difficult problems, were it not for the United States leadership, and I'm talking specifically about what had to be done in Bosnia and Kosovo where my husband could not get a Security Council resolution to save the Kosovar Albanians from ethnic cleansing. And we did it alone as the United States, and we had to do it alone. And so I see it somewhat differently. So forgive me for my experience and perspective."

I guess there are people who can read hidden meanings into what she said in 2003 and come up with an excuse ... they're good at doing so. But you listen to what these Democrats actually said back then AND the fact they went back to the Senate floor to come up with a second, more staunch resolution backing this war, and compare that with what they're saying now ...

Kind of obvious, I'd say.

(Imported from Jan. 30, 2007)