Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

December 19, 2006

Hillary Pulls a Kerry

All-but-officially-announced 2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is saying she wouldn't have voted for the war had she known what she knows now.

"Obviously, if we knew then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a vote," she said in her usual refrain before adding, "and I certainly wouldn't have voted that way."

Hindsight is 20/20, Mrs. Clinton. I might not have done a lot of things in my life either, had I known in advance of all the pitfalls or difficulties I would encounter. Part of life is making decisions and then dealing with the consequences that result. Wishful thinking isn't productive, but we're seeing a rash of left-leaning politicians now repeating similar canards because they know a portion of their base is upset with them. Sorry, but we can't turn back the clock.

Perhaps she's worried about possible rival Barack Obama, who has the luxury of not having been in the Senate when the vote for war was taken, and can wave his unsullied opposition like a flag to those fickle-minded folks who were for the war before they were against it.

Politicians like Hillary Clinton do a disservice to our military and even our country by their mewling about what they would have done if only... I wish I could hear more of them saying, "All right, we're committed. What can we do to ensure victory?" And in case anyone wonders what victory is, here's a primer: Victory in Iraq entails leaving only when the Iraqi government and its military are able to defend themselves from those who would seek to destabilize this democracy while still in its infancy.

h/t: Cookiewrangler