[Vision2020] CLINTON SAYS BUSH MISTAKE UNDERSTANDABLE

[Tim Lohrmann]

Visionaries,
   How do all you loyal Democrat/Clintonistas explain
ole Bill's taking up for Dub?
   Think he's trying to embarrass some of the Democrat
Pres. candidates he doesn't like? Why would he do
that? Is he trying to make sure that W is re-elected
so his wife won't have a sittind Democrat obstacle
when she runs in '08?
   How do you analyze?
   TL

CLINTON SAYS BUSH'S URANIUM MISTAKE IS UNDERSTANDABLE
Copyright © 2003 Nando Media
Copyright © 2003 AP Online 

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (July 22, 7:07 p.m. ADT) - President Bush's
erroneous reference to an Iraqi-Africa uranium link
was understandable, former President Clinton said
Tuesday, in part because Saddam Hussein's regime had
not accounted for some weapons by the time Clinton
ended his term in 2001.
Clinton's comments reinforce one of the pillars of
Bush's defense of the war in Iraq - that his
Democratic predecessor was never satisfied that Saddam
had rid himself of weapons of mass destruction.

"When I left office, there was a substantial amount of
biological and chemical material unaccounted for,"
Clinton said on CNN's "Larry King Live."

Clinton said he never found out whether a U.S.-British
bombing campaign he ordered in 1998 ended Saddam's
capability of producing chemical and biological
weapons. "We might have gotten it all, we might have
gotten half of it, we might have gotten none of it,"
he said.

In his State of the Union speech in February
justifying the planned war in Iraq, Bush referred to
British intelligence reports that Saddam had tried to
purchase uranium for nuclear weapons production. His
administration says it now believes those reports were
based in part on forged documents.

Clinton confined his remarks to biological and
chemical weapons, and did not say whether he would
consider credible any report that Saddam had wanted to
build a nuclear weapons program.

Nonetheless, he suggested that Bush's mistake was par
for the course - and that it was time to move on now
that Bush had acknowledged the error.

"You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are
president," he said. "I mean, you can't make as many
calls as you have to without messing up once in a
while. The thing we ought to be focused on is what is
the right thing to do now."

Clinton said ending tensions in Iraq should be the
priority now - another echo of the current White
House's talking points. "We should be pulling for
America on this. We should be pulling for the people
of Iraq."

Clinton made his remarks as a call-in guest on a
program observing the 80th birthday of Bob Dole, his
rival for the White House in 1996. 



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