Preeminent military historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson appeared on Hugh's show last night, and had some remarkable things to say about a possible sea change in several Middle East countries, a change in how they now view some of the same terrorists that they helped create.
But when Hugh turned to domestic politics towards the war, and in particular, how Democrats have reacted to the Petraeus and Crocker testimony of last week, here's what Professor Hanson had to say about Harry Reid:
HH: Well, on the weekend, Harry Reid told a Nevada newspaper that a million Iraqis had been killed in Iraq since the invasion. That’s trafficking in propaganda.
VDH: Yeah, it is. He’s unhinged. I think that people have to realize that he’s unhinged. You know, when he said the war was lost, or that Petraeus was untrustworthy, this was a man, remember, that on October 12th, 2002, gave a speech and said that he didn’t care about WMD, because we were in a de facto war with Saddam since ’91 when he broke the armistice accords, and we had to go to war with him. So I think he’s just somebody who’s…he’s almost a poster boy for the Republicans.
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