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Rachel Maddow on The GOP's "Blame Clinton" Strategy [VIDEO]

Posted by Rachel Maddow at 5:07 AM on May 25, 2007.


Rachel Maddow investigates the new rationale 2008 GOP candidates are giving for why we went to War in Iraq, they're saying it was Bill Clinton's idea.

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In another clever edition of her "Campaign Asylum" series, Rachel Maddow pokes fun at the flailing 2008 GOP presidential candidates as they try to figure out how to best distance themselves from President Bush's "legacy" while at the same time embracing it. Rudy Giuliani has attached himself the most outrageous theory as of late, claiming on David Letterman's show that the Iraq War was really something Bill Clinton wanted to do but he "never got the opportunity." I sincerely hope Bill Clinton will emerge to repudiate those remarks. In the meantime, check out the video to your right.

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Rachel Maddow is the host of her own show on Air America Radio. She has a doctorate in political science (she was a Rhodes Scholar) and a background in HIV/AIDS activism, prison reform, and other lefty rabblerousing.


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Sometimes...
Posted by: JoshuaLudd on May 25, 2007 6:00 AM   
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.. sometimes I can predict the future. What I see is going to happen in 2050. The US is still in Iraq. Bill Clinton is about a decade or two in his grave... and Republicans are currently blaming the latest round of drafts and their limiting to those making less than $100,000 per year on Bill Clinton.

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» RE: Sometimes... Posted by: bookie
Blame Clinton first
Posted by: Lloyd Drako on May 25, 2007 7:22 AM   
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for the Iraq morass? Because he disliked Saddam? Who didn't? Because of the 1998 resolution calling for regime change in Iraq? It was the official policy of the US for 45 years, stated in countless resolutions, that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were independent countries, but no president from FDR to Bush Sr. was idiot enough to try to liberate the Baltic countries by force with insufficient means and with no plan for the aftermath.

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Nice Job Rachel
Posted by: nellie blogger on May 25, 2007 8:01 AM   
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You make me feel better about Air America 2.0.

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Gecko Brains
Posted by: LeftCoastProgressive on May 25, 2007 9:01 AM   
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Rudy Giuliani's claim that the Iraq War was really something Bill Clinton wanted to do is typical of the impaired memory of presidential candidates. The combined IQ of the Repuke candidates would not challenge a Gecko. What could they possibly say to distract anybody from their BushDippy ineptitude.

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Blame game backlash
Posted by: pito516 on May 25, 2007 9:03 AM   
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When are we going to stop pointing fingers at each other? Democrat this, republican that, and bipartisain crap is all we hear. Truth of the matter is all of this bickering is pointless, I am by no means a supporter of the Bush regime or his war of lies, I firmly believe as do other Americans that this whole thing is just plain wrong. It's been 5 yrs since the 911 attacks and W stiil plays the if we don't stop them, they'll get us card and that game is long gone. We've lost a conflict that shouldn't have been started to begin with. There are too many issues in everyday life here in the states to deal with other than send more innocent young lives and funds into a civil war. Homelessness, health care, insurance , and employment standing under this administration is the worse in U.S. history yet more people vote for the next American Idol rather than for something that really matters. It's time to get real America and spark the revolution.

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team america
Posted by: pito516 on May 25, 2007 9:07 AM   
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"Ameeeericaaaaa....F*** YEAH!!!!"

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