For years the Republicans have run around screaming about the wonderful job they are doing with terrorism, and how the country would not be in this mess were it not for Bill Clinton. Earlier this month they coaxed ABC to run a mocumentary about the lead up to the attacks on 9/11, with many parts that were out right fictional, much to the pleasure of the likes of Rush “Drug King” Limbaugh.

So, finally, Bill Clinton has his say, and he has it on Fox News, where it tells Chris Wallace to “sit there with that smug look on your face”. (By the way, there is a point where Bill Clinton asks Chris Wallace why he has never asked a Bush administration representative the same questions he is asking him, to which Wallace replies that he has and Clinton basically calls him a liar. Think Progress has done fact checking, and it looks like Clinton wins this round. Wallace in fact has had at least three opporunities to ask the same questions surrounding the 9/11 attacks and has never done so.)

And so the Republicans line up to cheer on Fox News (the same people who jeered them last week for contributing money to a gay journalists group), and point at Clinton as coming unhinged on the program. To me Bill Clinton appears to be more eloquent, more articulate and demonstrates a greater grasp of reality than George W. Bush ever has. Over on YouTube, there is a right-head who actually said:

His [Clinton's] narcissism, rambling answers and physical intimidation of Wallace are ridiculously embarrassing and far beneath a President.

WTF Mary! Um, if you exchanged “Wallace” with any global leader’s name you would have described George W. Bush.

Congratulations America! The President of the United States has confirmed that we are have been torturing people in secret CIA prisons for years, essentially violating the principles of the Geneva Convention, in order to make our nation “safer”.

I take great offense in the President’s logic to arrive at the decision that this type of behavior is acceptable for the following reasons:

1. We are a nation of civilized people. We have been blessed by the almighty creator with enormous wealth and prosperity. As a result of our favored treatment by God, there will always be someone in this world who wishes to see that good fortune turn into regret and shame for the people of this nation. That these people exist, Mr. President, does not excuse you or anyone else in this nation to treat any other person like a four-legged animal. You do not win by acting like the criminals yourself.

2. In treating people like animals, we have created a situation where the United States is now in more danger than before 9/11. Treating people in such a demeaning way does not soften their stance and hatred against the United States, it emboldens them.

3. How is it that for years this administration has lied and acted as though these secret CIA prisons did not exist, all the while they were clearly operational? The administraion slammed the reporter and blammed the media for exposing the existance of these camps. Running off-shore prisons where prisoners are abused and tortured undercover does not make them acceptable. Clearly this administration does not regret that they have sunk so low as to build such an infrastructure, instead regretting that someone leaked the information.

4. The President’s remarks sound as though he has been forced to alter his tactics by order of the Supreme Court, when in fact the Supreme Court has made a decision based on the letter of the law. Once again, it is not the President’s fault, but it is the fault of someone else (the Supreme Court).

5. The President’s request for new laws from Congress to provide “guidelines” for treating prisoners of his “war on terror” is not a signal that he wishes to abide by the law, it is a signal that he wants Congress to create laws excusing what he has done is doing. In other words, he wants to be excused from possible war crime charges in the future.

A truly pathetic display of how void this President and administration are of intellectual thought about fighting a logical war on terror. What a joke!