If you don't believe me (given the right-wing leanings of this blog) that I've supported Bill Clinton in the past, feel free to look through my archives. In part, it's because he was a little bit more of a realist than the Bush-hating left wing of his party.

Clinton defends successor's push for war

Noting that Bush had to be "reeling" in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, Clinton said Bush's first priority was to keep al Qaeda and other terrorist networks from obtaining "chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material."

"That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for," Clinton said in reference to Iraq and the fact that U.N. weapons inspectors left the country in 1998.

"So I thought the president had an absolute responsibility to go to the U.N. and say, 'Look, guys, after 9/11, you have got to demand that Saddam Hussein lets us finish the inspection process.' You couldn't responsibly ignore [the possibility that] a tyrant had these stocks," Clinton said.

If the Democrats couldn't win the 2000 election with a centrist Gore, ain't no way they are going to win with a leftist, flip-flopping Kerry.