which way is the wind blowing

so former panderer-in-chief calls iraq a "big mistake" on foreign soil just last week, after years of hawkish iraq rhetoric" [bugmenot login] before and after 9/11

"So, you're sitting there as President, you're reeling in the aftermath of this, so, yeah, you want to go get bin Laden and do Afghanistan and all that. But you also have to say, 'Well, my first responsibility now is to try everything possible to make sure that this terrorist network and other terrorist networks cannot reach chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material. I've got to do that.'

"That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for."

however, former president clinton warns against premature pullout in a wide-ranging speech once back in front of an american audience.

...reminiscent of the SNL skit lampooning john kerry as a panderer (rather than a flip-flopper) tailoring his message to his audience...