Via The Anchoress is an excellent post based on a Washington Post article:

What a long, strange trip it’s been, and here, some years later, we finally get someone in the press to tell it straight: Bush did not lie.

After all, it was not Bush, but Rockefeller, who said in October 2002: “There has been some debate over how ‘imminent’ a threat Iraq poses. I do believe Iraq poses an imminent threat. I also believe after September 11, that question is increasingly outdated. . . . To insist on further evidence could put some of our fellow Americans at risk. Can we afford to take that chance? I do not think we can.”

One reads this and thinks…it’s really too bad that when this story of Dems on the Intel Committee plotting against Bush broke in 2003, the mainstream press ignored it, taking umbrage that anyone would leak a memo (!) while ignoring its content. Why, suddenly, is the WaPo deciding, after 5 years of supporting and promoting the “Bush lied” meme, to clarify?

Excellent post, Anchoress! And you’re right; it’s probably too late to rehabilitate this president at least in the present and soon future, but in the end I believe history will exonerate him.

Let the spin begin. (I guess the scrutiny became a bit too hot.)

Sorry Mrs. Clinton. Not buying.

This is operating under the duress of sniper fire:

This is not:

And what irks me is that the Clinton campaign would believe voters were naive enough not to know the difference.

No Senator, there are some things you would never forget and coming under sniper fire would be near the top of the list. There is no room for “she misspoke” on this issue.

Update: For those who might say that’s just one photograph or perhaps there were other issues the former First Lady dealt with in Bosnia, here is a firsthand report from CBS news:

Others writing:
Sweetness and Light

Mark Halperin

Ed Morrissey