IBD:

When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, Hillary told an American Bar Association luncheon: “If you vote for my husband, you get me. It’s a two-for-one, blue plate special.” So presumably, if she’s the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee, the opposite will be true: If you vote for Hillary, you get Bill.

One of Hillary’s campaign themes, in addition to the general conduct of the war on terror, will no doubt be a variation of the “Bush lied us into war” theme pushed by her party’s hard-left base and the likes of George Soros and the good folks at MoveOn.org.

First, she’ll have to explain why she was for the war in Iraq before she was against it. She’ll also have to explain what her co-president spouse meant in 1998 when he signed the Iraq Liberation Act. The legislation made the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein the official policy of the United States. Bush just carried it out.

Former New York Mayor Giuliani has made it clear that if he is her opponent in 2008, she’ll also have to explain her husband’s muted — no, nonexistent — response to repeated terrorist attacks on U.S. targets here and abroad, starting with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

Speaking to about 650 business, corporate and political leaders at Regent University on Tuesday, Giuliani said: “Islamic terrorists killed more than 500 Americans before Sept. 11. Many people think the first attack on America was on Sept. 11, 2001. It was not. It was in 1993.” He went on to say that “bin Laden declared war on us. We didn’t hear it.”