> Clinton's letter last week clarifying her position on Iraq - which
> included rejecting a timetable for withdrawal - fanned the anger of
> some war opponents, who decided to launch a campaign against New
> York's junior senator.
>
> "We're calling it Bird-Dog Hillary," said Medea Benjamin of the peace
> group Codepink.
>
> "I'm so mad at her," said Nancy Kricorian, Codepink's New York City
> coordinator. "We will dog her wherever she goes."
I understand why the lefties are against the war, but on a second thought the current debacle in Iraq has a positive side to it - it makes the empire spin its wheels and unable to pose a serious military threat elsewhere. It is quite possible that if it were not for the fact that Bush bogged down the US military machine in Iraq, folks like Chavez would be sitting quietly like a mouse under a broom, instead of flashing their fingers at the empire.
Any war is terrible, of course, but a war that extracts a heavy price from the evil empire is better than the one that hands it an easy victory (like Panama). I think people on this list should be more appreciative of President Bush - he screwed up the empire more than any other president would. By the same logic, those who insist on this imperial wheel spinning deserve a credit too.
Wojtek