Another Chapter in Hillary’s Attempt to Rewrite History on Iraq

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/22/1360/

Another Chapter in Hillary’s Attempt to Rewrite History on Iraq
by Arianna Huffington

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As the Democrats continue to push for an end to the war, the devil will most certainly be in the details — and pretending everyone is on the same page will do little to help voters decide which candidate to support. Which is exactly how Hillary wants it.

She’s even trying to turn her chronic shape-shifting on Iraq into an asset, telling Matt Lauer that she’s “put forth a number of approaches.” See, she wasn’t trying to cover all her bases — she was putting forth a number of approaches.

Hillary obviously was paying attention during Bill Clinton’s master class on rewriting history. Take his claim, made on a fundraising call with Hillary supporters in March, about the unfairness of the contrasting depiction of Hillary and Obama on the war: “To characterize Hillary and Obama’s positions on the war as polar opposite is ludicrous. This dichotomy that’s been set up to allow him to become the raging hero of the anti-war crowd on the Internet is just factually inaccurate.”

Hmm, let’s see… Hillary voted for the war and Obama passionately opposed it. Characterizing that as “polar opposite” hardly seems “factually inaccurate.” Indeed, one might say it was “factually accurate.” But when Lauer asked Hillary about this, she said, “I think he was referring to the voting records most Democrats have.” Which, of course, he absolutely wasn’t. He was talking about Obama.

Regarding her husband’s claim, Hillary also told Lauer, “You’ll have to ask him exactly what he meant…” — which I have a sick feeling is going to be a phrase we are going to hear over and over and over in the months ahead as Bill Clinton tries to clear Hillary’s path to the White House.

In the facts-at-our-fingertips age of the Internet, Hillary’s blur-the-past strategy on Iraq takes a lot of chutzpah.

[asjr]

1. I have no idea what the Clintons did

to piss Arianna off, but she is her own 527 swiftboat against them.