Bill Clinton is again making questionable statements while on the campaign trail for his wife. This time around, he appears to be rewriting history when it comes to whether he supported the Iraq war from the beginning.

“Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning,” Clinton said on the trail yesterday, according to news reports, “I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers.”

But a transcript from a speech Clinton delivered during 2003 commencement at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi he’s quoted as saying the following: “I supported the president when he asked the Congress for authority to stand up against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”

This misstatement is the latest in a series of gaffes from President Clinton. In recent weeks, he took credit for the failure to reform health care while in office, inadvertently drawing more attention to his wife’s role in that situation, and, to much criticism, he has responded to Barack Obama’s questions about Hillary Clinton’s age and honesty.

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Turkish newspapers are printing gruesome pictures of Iraqis killed by U.S. soldiers in response to American political efforts to label the country as having committed genocide. The headline on this page, “Soykırım diyene bak,” is translated directly into English as, “look who is talking about genocide,” and it links to several graphic photos.

The Turkish press closely followed a U.S. Congressional committee meeting last night, during which a resolution describing the 1915 slaughter of Armenians as a genocide was voted through. House leader Nancy Pelosi has long supported the measure, and it’s believed a majority of the House does, too.

It’s a move the White House predicted would severely damage relations with Turkey. “This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings,” George Bush told reporters just hours before the House Foreign Affairs Committee met to consider the measure. The president is desperate to keep Turkey as an ally.

Anti-war protesters, too, are angry that the U.S. government is focusing on foreign killings from decades ago, rather than definitively trying to end the war in Iraq.

More Turkish media presentations of the “shock and awe” after the jump: Read more…

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David Corn reports that the State Department and the Bush administration is abandoning the forced-out anticorruption chief of Iraq because he believes the Maliki government is so corrupt it ought to be scrapped. Plus, the State Department is not cooperating with a Congressional investigation of corruption in Iraq. Super fun!

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“When a SWAT guy and the horse went after my daughter and assaulted her, she started screaming,” Tina Richards, an activist with Grassroots America whose son returned from Iraq suicidal, told Big Head DC soon after her recent run-in with the Capitol police.

“I put my head out the window to yell at them to leave my daughter alone and they closed the window on my head,” she recalled. “I told the transport officer of the injury, but she said, ‘I’m sure you’d like people to believe that.’” Read more…

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Watch him forcefully tell Mike Huckabee, “It’s time we come home!” That’s right. Ron Paul was simply not afraid to tell him to eff off.

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“When you have to make a secret trip to Iraq, I think, probably, your surge plan isn’t working,” HBO’s Bill Maher said on Chris Matthews’ Hardball this evening, referring to President Bush’s weekend visit to the devastated war-plagued country.

“He’s not a reader,” Maher said of Bush. “He didn’t think he had to learn anything about Iraq…He prayed on it.”

The political commentator/comedian added that he couldn’t stand to see Fred Thompson or Rudy Giuliani in the White House because he feels they view the world much too simply, much like Maher thinks Bush views the world.

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Ari Fleischer, a former Bush administration spokesman, made an embarrassing mistake on Hardball today after the program aired a commercial from Freedom’s Watch, a right-wing pro-Iraq war group he now heads. The spot featured the personal story of a wounded American soldier.

“What’s that soldier’s name, Ari?” substitute host Mike Barnicle asked after the commercial ran.

“Mike, I don’t have that name in front of me.” responded Fleischer.

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of American executive director Paul Rieckhoff later slammed Fleischer’s ignorance on the same show.

“What bothered me the most is that Ari Fleischer didn’t even know the guy’s name.” said Rieckhoff. “He’s willing to run a multi-million dollar campaign, utilizing the personal story of a soldier, and he couldn’t tell you on national TV what that soldier’s name is.”

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Media Matters offers the full, tawdry brief:

In an effort to undermine a New Republic article by Army Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp about alleged inappropriate conduct by U.S. troops in Iraq, an article by Weekly Standard reporter [Michael Goldfarb] relied on Marine Cpl. Matt Sanchez as the only military source identified by name but did not reveal facts that weigh on the credibility of Sanchez’s attacks on The New Republic article: that Sanchez, whose website describes him as a “Marine Reservist” who is “[presently] in Iraq interviewing the troops,” has reportedly been under investigation by the Marines over allegations that he bilked private donors out of $12,000 for a deployment to Iraq he never made and that he apparently once worked as a male escort. He has also admitted to having been in gay porn films, a fact he has acknowledged “leaving … off my curriculum vitae.”

…In a March 8 article for Salon.com, Sanchez wrote: “Others [bloggers] were comparing me to Jeff Gannon and claiming that I too had advertised my services as a male escort. I won’t deny it, or that I acted in several adult movies 15 years ago under names like Pierre LaBranche and Rod Majors.”

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We’re not sure her gun-toting son is going to be thrilled to hear this, but military mom Tina Richards, whose war-funding confrontation with Rep. David Obey became legendary on the Internet, will be sharing her Army son’s poems at the Greenbelt Community Center in the Maryland suburbs this Sunday.  Her son’s second tour in Iraq was during the seige in Fallujah, and he contemplated suicide as a result of his experiences there. We’re betting the poems will contain few rhymes.

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The actor’s charming qualities, exhibited at the Falls Chruch High School on Friday, were seemingly quick to wear off:

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