Big dumb mouth-porking Clinton thought he could dip his legacy in pure gold by making the Israelis and the Palestinians toss each others salad on the White House lawn. Such foolishness! If only he had recognized that the road to peace in the Middle East runs straight through Vietraq. I guess ol' Bubba thought that how peace was accomplished mattered. Dick's view, according to Bob Woodward, is a bit more ethically blunt: "...it doesn't matter how long the aftermath is...What matters is the ultimate outcome". Ah, the wafting petrol-scented pheromones of leadership! All we need to do now is "stay the course". Easy. If we all act manly enough, for long enough, all will turn out okay in the end. What about the ongoing insurgent violence? Well, The President has used his world-famous rhetorical wit to slice through the Gordian Knot (if you will) of just this kind of squirrelly phantom menace (exaggerated by the "elitist" media no doubt):

The Iraqis need to be very much involved. They were the people that was brutalized by this man.

I agrees. So why are thems towel-headers still chanting "Elif air ab dinich"!? Must be Clinton's fault.