Bill Clinton And War

Bill Clinton fading?
Get this:

Former President Bill Clinton has been drawing sleepy and sometimes smallish crowds at big venues in the state that revived his presidential campaign in 1992. He entered to polite applause and rows of empty seats at the University of New Hampshire on Friday. Several people filed out midspeech, and the room was largely quiet as he spoke, with few interruptions for laughter or applause. He talked about his administration, his foundation work and some about his wife.  Maybe the sluggish day was a blip. ...  But there was a similarly listless aura at the previous stop, in Rochester. And again, on Saturday in Bow, at just the sort of high school gym that the master campaigner used to blow out. Only about 225 showed up in Bow — about one-third the capacity of the room.

And this:

After Hillary Clinton's third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses on Thursday night, Bill Clinton flew to New Hampshire with his wife. He took up his separate schedule, hoping to reprise his "Comeback Kid" effort in a state that he has long considered a political second home, but on this visit he has returned to a volatile political environment that may have outgrown even the former president's outsized charm. Facing in Obama a candidate with charisma of his own and a message of change, even Clinton advisers conceded that, of all the images that the former president conveys, a fresh face is not one of them.  Does Clinton himself sense this? At their joint event on Friday morning, Clinton scanned the crowd as his wife spoke, biting his nails.

Are the wheels starting to come off the Clinton juggernaut machine?  Just remember, as you see all these headlines about how Hillary is suffering in the polls and how she's falling off the radar politically, the primary season is just beginning.  We've had one state weigh in.  Take nothing as gospel yet.  It is only after the first 'super' Tuesday is in the books that we'll be able to make some educated projections about who is truly falling off the radar and who is gaining steam.  There's a lot of movement yet to happen.

We're waiting for you
American Al Qaeda leader Adam Gadahn told his followers to welcome Bush "with bombs and traps" upon his upcoming visit to the Middle East this week.  This nutball ripped up his passport as a protest to Al Qaeda prisoners being held by the U.S., which means nothing since he is presumed to be hiding out in Pakistan somewhere.  On another note, I pray that Bush is kept safe on his trip, but I think a hypothetical successful assassination on the President would prove an extremely interesting point.  I think you would see the wacko liberal leftists rise up in joy alongside their radical Islamic brethren, while the other 90+% of America would be in shock, disgust, and unity of purpose in retribution.  In the long run, I think this situation would ultimately prove to be far more harmful to the leftist movement because it would be soundly rejected by the vast majority of true patriotic Americans.

They can't handle the truth
Fred Barnes writes about how the Democrat presidential candidates can't handle the truth of the huge success the Iraq surge has become.  All of them offer up ridiculous excuses, but none are worth anything and are sorely lacking on evidence, and all prove these Democrats are a foreign policy disaster waiting to happen.

Iranian boats threaten U.S. Navy ships
Iranian boats harassed and provoked three American Navy ships in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, threatening to explode the vessels, U.S. officials said Monday.  In the most serious such incident in years, U.S. forces were on the verge of firing on the Iranian boats during the incident early Sunday, when the boats—believed to be from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's navy—turned and moved away, a Pentagon official said.  Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman called it a "serious incident." Another U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, called it "the most serious provocation of this sort that we've seen yet."  One report I saw indicated these boats got within 200 meters of the Navy ships before turning away.  Why is Iran trying to provoke the U.S.?  Are they trying to get us to attack them first so they are justified in obtaining nuclear weapons to 'defend themselves' from us?  I suspect we'll hear more about this in the future...

There's my two cents.