NEGOTIATIONS ARE TO BUSH�S RIGHT? Since Matthew Yglesias picked up my item yesterday and linked to his own recent Guardian Online column about Hillary Clinton�s hawkishness as a reply, I wanted to note two instances in his column where I believe he is playing by Clinton Rules in attacking her. Matt writes: �From smacking down Howard Dean in December 2003, to calling for a larger army, to earning the praise of psychotic warmonger Marshall Wittman by attacking Bush from the right on Iran, she spent years affiliating herself with the [Democratic] party’s militaristic wing.�

But if you read the speech which Matt characterizes as �attacking Bush from the right,� this is

what Clinton said

:

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.