The responsibility of ineffectuals

The insightful young turks who gave us live coverage of the DNC earlier, through which we learned that Kucinich is a "trophy candidate", have dialed it down a bit sadly. Downright sober, in fact:

Liveblogging the Carson City AFSCME Forum

To lead, Stephanopoulos asks Clinton about her position on Iraq, why her vote wasn't a mistake. Clinton states that she has "taken responsibility for" her vote, that no one should be let off the hook for their vote.

That's awfully commendable of old Hillary to take responsibility, sort of like old George does when one of his pet projects fails. Now, C-Span, in its slightly more radical coverage, provided details from Hillary on Iraq and responsibility. A view that can be summarised thus:

It's the Iraqis stupid! That's right, boys and girls. Hillary is mad at the Iraqis for being irresponsible about this whole matter of getting themselves killed in the hundreds of thousands. She is tired, comrades, of "our boys and girls" doing all the hard work. No worries: she has a solution. Let's cut off their funding she kindly submits! That will teach them, yeah! Getting raped, starving, losing your entire family... not that much fun any more is it? Here's the good lady:

My legislation will also say to the Iraqis: Enough! We are not going to fight your battles, we are not going to send our young men and women in. You have to be on the front lines of your own defence. And as far as I am concerned, people ask me, "Why don't you just cut money for American troops?". I want to cut money for Iraqi troops. [applause]

Think you can stomach it? Watch it at C-Span (caution: the link is to an annoying RTSP URL which is how C-Span links it -- actually its worse but I shall spare you the details). Found a better link.