Rewriting His-story
I'm not sure who they were supportive of, Bush or Clinton. Tom Brokaw, Ted Koppel: Clinton Would Have Gone Into Iraq, Too.
This smells like revisionist history, trying to bolster the Clinton Legacy. "Yes, if 9/11 would have happened on his watch, he would have gone into Iraq."
KOPPEL: I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11.BROKAW: Right.
KOPPEL: If 9/11 had happened on Bill Clinton's watch, he would have gone into Iraq.
BROKAW: Yeah. Yeah.
I highly doubt that stipulation. The "Most ethical administration in history" was hounded by *-gates from day one when Co-President Hillary fired the travel office's staff to replace them with her friends. And it all went downhill from there.
No matter how much anybody (including Clinton himself) might say it, Clinton would not have gone into Iraq, or even Afghanistan. He would have just lobbed more cruise missiles and issued arrest warrants for OBL and company. He lacked the spine to make the hard choices, and I think history (especially his-story) should reflect that fact.
I will say that the present President Bush is a very lackluster President. If it wasn't for 9/11, he would have been as forgettable as Rutherford B. Hayes. The only thing Bush had going for him besides 9/11 is his tax cuts. While that's nothing to sneeze at, it is still nothing to significantly remember him by.
But again, this is all about Clinton and his-story. To even suppose that Clinton would have had the balls to do anything like what Bush has done is pure sophistry.