Bill Clinton, Mullah Wanna-Be

From Powerline and RealClearPolitics.com:

Clinton and the Mullahs: Soulmates

Is this for real? I don't know how I could have missed it. But apparently Eason Jordan's slander of American soldiers in Iraq wasn't the dumbest thing said in Davos last month. Amir Taheri writes that first in Davos, then in a subsequent television interview, former President Bill Clinton expressed solidarity with the mullahs who rule Iran:

Here is what Clinton said at a meeting on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, just a few weeks ago: “Iran today is, in a sense, the only country where progressive ideas enjoy a vast constituency. It is there that the ideas that I subscribe to are defended by a majority.”

And here is what Clinton had to say in a recent television interview with Charlie Rose:

“Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997). (It is) the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote in six elections: Two for president; two for the Parliament, the Majlis; two for the mayoralties. In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote. There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.”

So, while millions of Iranians, especially the young, look to the United States as a mode of progress and democracy, a former president of the US looks to the Islamic Republic as his ideological homeland.

Moreover, displaying an invincible ignorance of history, Clinton apologized on behalf of America for its "crimes against Iran."

The mind boggles. If Bill Clinton really thinks that the Islamic Republic of Iran, one of the world's most brutal theocracies, where children are hanged for acts of impiety, is "liberal" and "progressive," he is nowhere near as smart as I always thought.

Let's all remember this kind of stuff when Hillary becomes the Dem presidential nominee in 2008.