Tom DeLay: "You can support the troops but not the president."

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Posted on Wednesday, August 31 @ 08:54:25 EDT

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"You can support the troops but not the president."
-- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Tex.

Whoops! Did old nasty really say that? He certainly did. Could it be that all those chemicals he inhaled back when he ran a pest control firm in Texas finally reached his brain?

That's entirely possible. However, he wasn't talking about our present fiasco in Iraq, but about President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia a decade ago. Republicans said a lot of things at the time that now seem grimly hilarious, some of which are on display on the Daily Kos (dailykos.com), one of the very few blogs worth putting down your Superman comic book for.

Karen Hughes, then as now the Shrub's mouthpiece, said, "If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."

Later, perhaps when she had gone to the powder room, Governor George W. Bush himself echoed that, saying, "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what his exit strategy is."