Politicizing the War
Powerline has a great post about the recent political statements made by Howard Dean and Christopher Dodd blaming the Bush administration for current Mideast crisis. To quote:

In an obscene attempt to obtain political mileage, the Democrats are claiming that President Bush is responsible for the outbreak of war in the Middle East. Howard Dean claims that the war would not have occurred if the Democrats had been in power because the Dems would have worked the past six years to prevent it. And Sen. Dodd has made basically the same assertion. Meanwhile, Rep. Jane Harman contends that the Bush administration is to blame for our poor to non-existent relations with Syria and Iran which, she says, prevent us from using diplomacy to end the crisis.

Once again, the Democrats are taking partisan politics to a previously unknown low. No past opposition party has attempted to blame the outbreak of an Arab-Israeli war on the party in power. Unless I'm mistaken, the Republicans didn't blame President Johnson for the war in 1967; the Dems didn't blame President Nixon for the war in 1973; nor did they blame President Reagan for the hostilities in Lebanon that occurred on his watch. Moreover, it is especially reprehensible for the Dems to be taking such a low road now, when unlike before, the U.S. is in the middle of essentially the same war as Israel -- the war on terrorism.

Very true. Generations of foreign policy realism--perhaps once justified by the Cold War--espoused by both Democrats and Republicans have led us to the current situation. Base10 caught Dodd on Fox News Sunday, and I have to say his anti-Bush rant was both disgraceful and insulting.
- posted by Base10 @ 2:40 PM