Lorie Byrd on Iraq push-back:

A few months ago, I wrote that the president should be making the argument Dick Cheney made in a brilliant speech in July 2003 to the AEI. He said that knowing what we knew then, prior to invading Iraq, and looking at it in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks, it would have been irresponsible NOT to take action to remove Saddam Hussein:

"Now the regime of Saddam Hussein is gone forever. And at a safe remove from the danger, some are now trying to cast doubt upon the decision to liberate Iraq. The ability to criticize is one of the great strengths of our democracy. But those who do so have an obligation to answer this question: How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat?"

Indeed, and this retrospective rewriting of history, this attempted revisionism by Democrats is pathetic precisely because knowing what they did at the time, and knowing what Bill Clinton himself had said about the Iraq threat, they would have done precisely the same thing and voted for war against Iraq, regardless of what they are trying to argue now. This point must be made over and over again, every time the Democrats attempt to disengeniously assert otherwise.

(Via Hugh Hewitt)