GOP attacks on U.S. military actions during Clinton Presidency (Updated)

by GlennGreenwald

Sat Nov 19, 2005 at 10:56:45 AM PDT

The odious, patriotism-impugning Michelle Malkin is today stridently hyping a post at Mudville Gazette entitled "History of a Long War (Iraq 1990-2003)," the purpose of which is ostensibly to demonstrate that the U.S. war with Iraq did not begin with Bush's false WMD claims, but instead has been raging continuously since 1990. These most slavish of Bush defenders apparently think that this revisionism will get Bush off the hook for starting a war on false pretenses (since, according to this view, Bush did not start a war with Iraq, but merely inherited an ongoing one).