Bill Clinton’s lies on Iraq demonstrate once again how Democrats offer such thin gruel to those who want a different approach to Iraq (i.e. non-intervention and/or immediate withdrawal).

John Kerry, in a September 6, 2002 op-ed in the New York Times, outlined and advocated exactly the same diplomatic and military strategy Bush used leading up to the Iraq War. And yes, that includes the part about unilateral, pre-emptive military action:

“If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community’s already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.”

I’m sure I’ve posted this before at some point, but people need to know about it. My 2004 retrospective on it is here.