Kathryn — Thank you for your enthusiasm about the effort to find common ground with the 42nd president after all that, you know, unpleasantness. Just for the record, Clinton had appeared earlier on “Meet the Press” and was asked about the war in Iraq. He said he believed the United States invaded prematurely and that it had hurt America’s image in the world, but then added:

On on the other hand, Saddam is gone and 58 percent of those people voted. That’s an even higher percentage of people than voted in America in 2004, when we were proud of our turnout and when nobody’s life was at risk. So there’s still a chance this will work. And if it does, there’s still a chance it will be a net plus for the Middle East.