Clinton Speaks - Page 2

gldstwmn · #16 06-21-2004, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I think that Clinton's analysis here and in the CNN quote is true. I think that the news source is irrelevant. We are talking about direct quotes here. I think what Clinton says is pretty much is exactly what has happened and is happening in Iraq. I just take him at his word. But, the far left cannot do the same because to do so would be to give W a litle credit for something and that just cannot ever happen in their world.

Apologist/enabler.

strandinthewind · #17 06-21-2004, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Apologist/enabler.

Once again, when presented with facts, all I get in a rebuttal is an in general personal attack

Just admit it, I am right here. The facts totally support me and you all know it. Yet, I can readily admit when I am wrong.

BTW - who am I apologizing for - Clinton and Kerry - I am quoting them.

gldstwmn · #18 06-21-2004, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Once again, when presented with facts, all I get in a rebuttal is an in general personal attack

Just admit it, I am right here. The facts totally support me and you all know it. Yet, I can readily admit when I am wrong.

BTW - who am I apologizing for - Clinton and Kerry - I am quoting them.

Again, here is the unedited version of it and of course dear, my apologies for hurting your feelings.

CNN didn't post the whole quote. The full Clinton quote is:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=1896&ncid=1473

Bush Timing on Iraq Was Wrong, Clinton Says

Sun Jun 20, 7:29 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Bush made the right decision to go after Saddam Hussein but the timing of the invasion was wrong, Bill Clinton said in an interview with Time magazine released on Sunday.

"I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq (news - web sites), even though I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over," the former president said.

"I would not have done it until after (former U.N. chief weapons inspector) Hans Blix finished his job."

Clinton spoke to Time days before the release of his memoirs, "My Life," on Tuesday. It was his first print interview as part of the high-profile publicity campaign.

"We went in there because (Bush) bought the Wolfowitz-Cheney analysis that the Iraqis would be better off, we could shake up the authoritarian Arab regimes in the Middle East, and our leverage to make peace between the Palestinians and Israelis would be increased," Clinton told Time.

The results have been mixed so far, he said.

"I think right now, getting rid of Saddam's tyranny, ironically, has made Iraq more vulnerable to terrorism coming from in the outside," Clinton said. "But any open society is going to be more vulnerable than any tyranny to that."

During a two-hour interview conducted on Thursday, Clinton also touched on his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and his battle with independent counsel Ken Starr.

"I was involved in two great struggles at the same time: a great public struggle over the future of America with the Republican Congress and a private struggle with my old demons.

"I won the public one and lost the private one," Clinton said. "I don't think it's much more complicated than that."

Of Starr, Clinton said the special prosecutor represented "the new right that runs the Washington Republican Party."

"This was not about evidence. This was about a struggle for power. I think that they really saw us as usurpers. They thought the only reason they lost the election to Jimmy Carter was Watergate," he said.

strandinthewind · #19 06-21-2004, 08:02 PM

LOL - no harm no foul - it has been a crappy day. I threw my back out yesterday. Much of today has ben spent in bed. BUT, the bright side is I played hookie from work!!!!!