Those who live in glass houses ...

Marc Cooper makes a good point:

Just for the record: Back in October 1998, President Bill Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act into law, making regime change the official policy of the United States. The Senate passed the measure unanimously and Democrats in the House waited patiently in line to approve. So, actually, this whole idea of getting rid of Saddam didn't begin in 2002, not did it wholly originate with Republicans. nor has the Clinton family been an innocent bystander.

Two months later in December 1998, purely coincidentally as Congress took up his impeachment Clinton, ordered Operation Desert Fox and began a four-day bombardment of Iraq (overlapping the onset of the holy Ramadan season). As the cruise missiles slammed into Iraq, ambien-addled U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) took to the House floor and argued that criticizing Clinton for the Lewinsky matter at that moment might be giving aid and comfort to the enemy -- suggesting that Congress seek prior permission from the CIA before going ahead with impeachment debate! It was almost word-for-word the same scurrilous language used in 1966 by LBJ when Kennedy's uncle Bobby spoke out against Vietnam and got his patriotism questioned.

We should probably keep that in mind when we criticize the right for their "you're a traitor" accusations. They should be criticized, but equally so should be our own.

A hat tip to Max Sawicki, who adds this:

And I will usefully remind you it was Clinton and Mad Albright who instituted sanctions against Iraq and affirmed the acceptability of the resulting hundreds of thousands of deaths of innocent Iraqi children.

Today the litmus test of an anti-war candidate and the "netroots" is where they stand on attacking Iran.