before this convention Clinton was laying the blame for Iraq at the victim's feet
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1735/81 /
"I was dismayed on Sunday night, however, when Senator Clinton tried to blame the Iraqis for the current quagmire. If someone invaded the US, dissolved the US army, fired all the capable government bureaucrats, instituted ethnic quota hiring, rounded up thousands of people and tortured them, etc., the people of the US might not respond calmly, either.)"
and there is another link which calls this the Bi-Partisan Blame the Iraqis Gambit
http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070... In the Sunday Post of June 3, "The 'Blame The Iraqis' Gambit," a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, neocon Robert Kagan, writes that people who "want to justify the unjustifiable and accept the unacceptable ... try all kinds of ways to make themselves feel better about their decision."