The Haiti - Iraq Connection

Check it out as Lileks Googles some history from the U.S. invasion of Haiti when Clinton was president and concludes:

Googling the Haiti war is an interesting exercise, if only to revisit old fault lines. Thrill! as conservatives grumble that we’ve no business nation-building. Gasp! as liberals insist that the Armed Forces should be used to topple tyrants.

Lileks also points us to an excerpt from a Time article:

PRESIDENT CLINTON asked aides at a National Security Council meeting on Haiti to prepare a comparison between a possible U.S. invasion of Haiti and Reagan's 1983 invasion of Grenada. Clinton wanted a study of forces needed, likely casualties -- and rationales used. After the meeting one official asked, half joking, " Are there any Americans in medical school in Haiti ?" Another answered, " No, but we've found two American dentists there."

Can you even possibly imagine if something like that came out of President's Bush's mouth about Iraq? Sullivan and Lileks have opined rightly in the past, the Democrats are all a titter about the liberation of Iraq because it isn't theirs.