Well, the Twin Towers were still standing proudly when Clinton left office, and the Pentagon was still unblemished, and that's more than Bush will ever be able to claim at the end of his Presidency, that's for sure. There were also a lot fewer dead Afghan and Iraqi civilains and a lot fewer dead American soldiers when Clinton left office than there are now, as well. Take that for what you will, I guess.


- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"We may work for the government now. But if anything happens, we all work for Sadr." - LT. MOHAMMED ABU KADAR, of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, on the support in his neighborhood for Moktada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric.