CLINTON - SADDAM'S AIDES, "GOOD, DECENT PEOPLE"

With all of the ridiculous rhetoric that the left is spewing concerning the pre-war Iraq intelligence in many ways this one takes the cake. Not only do our troops hear from the liberals in Congress that the time to pull out, (translation - SURRENDER ), is now, ( Rep. John Murtha (D) Pa calls for immediate pull out, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175878,00.html ), but they have to face further defeatist and demoralizing comments from their former Commander in Chief claiming that the dismantling of Saddam Hussein's, "government, " was wrong and that those within his governmental structure were, "decent people who were making the best out of a very bad situation." This type of logic is why this man failed in foreign policy. Hussein's government consisted of the Baath Party which contained only members of the Suni faction. If his underlings had remained at their posts after Saddam's defeat the other Iraqi factions would NOT have participated in ANY form of government with only Sunis in charge and Civil War would have surely been the result. Also taking into account that most if not all of Hussein's government officials were as evil and insane as he and all that would have happened was the trading of one dictator for another. A prime example was the recent finding of a prison that held insurgents being run by one of Saddam's former Baath Party members and part of his, what did Clinton call them, ?....Oh yeah, "authority structure. " The prisoners were being starved and tortured in the same manner as the Saddam regime. What's the old saying, " once a tiger, always a tiger ?" During the same speech that, "Bubba, " praised Saddam's underlings, he denounced the Iraq invasion as, "a big mistake." There has always been an unwritten rule with former President's to stay out of policy and not undermine the administration that follows yours. Well this former failed President has NO respect for Presidential protocol nor for our troops and the magnificent job they are doing in Iraq. His disdain for the military dates back to his terrible years as President and once again are revealed in this speech given to university students and because it was delivered by a former President it received world wide coverage. He was a disgrace in office and continues to be a disgrace in private life.

Ken Taylor