[Vision2020] CLINTON SAYS BUSH MISTAKE UNDERSTANDABLE

[Bob Hoffmann]

Clinton spent 8 years bombing Iraq.  He even wanted to escalate bombing to 
divert attention from his sex scandals (Now that's an impeachable 
offense).  He is a so-called centrist-Democrat--doesn't mind the use of 
force internationally, as long as it's the U.S. doing it.
Bob

At 10:41 AM 7/23/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>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 İ 2003 Nando Media
>Copyright İ 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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Bob Hoffmann
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