Bill Clinton Claims U.S. Will Lose Iraq War
By Steve Boggess (10/16/05)
The liberal anti-war mindset of the sixties still exists with the power couple of the Democratic Party.
In an interview with The Ladies Home Journal, the former president stated that Iraq is a quagmire, and also warns it could go wrong.
These are pretty heady words from a former president who did nothing about the first time the World Trade Center's were bombed in 1993. That explosion left six people dead, more than a thousand injured, and damages in excess of half a billion dollars.
He also stated: "Since the end of World War II, the British put down the Malayan insurgency, and they were the only one's successful in doing so, and they stayed for 15 years."
Apparently, Bill hasn't been paying attention to the news coming out of Iraq, or keeping up with the outstanding job our armed forces have done since we have been there. We have toppled a dictator, drove the old Iraqi military out of the country, and soon, elections to ratify their new Constitution will be held.
He also said: "You can say for historical reasons, the odds are not great for our prevailing there." This is a thinly veiled comparison to Vietnam.
Backpedaling, he then said that the reason that this is not Vietnam is that 58 percent of the eligible voters showed up and voted in Iraq.
Is the former president suggesting that since elections were never held in Vietnam during our time over there is what makes the difference between that war, and this one? I can think of many, many more.
Politics aside, is this Bill's story, and is he going to stick to it?
Jay Carson, Bill Clinton's aid came quickly to the ex-president's rescue by toning down the moral-busting remarks, telling the New York Daily News:
"President Clinton has always been clear that there are reasons for optimism and that there are clearly reasons for concern with the current situation in Iraq. But no one has been clearer than President Clinton about the necessity of winning now that we are there."
Right now would be a good time for Bill Clinton to just admit that yes he did inhale the marijuana he tried in college, and that yes, he did sleep with that woman, Monica Lewinsky. Some soul cleansing does a body good.
Clinton's comments came two weeks after he publicly suggested the Iraq war was illegitimate.
Could that also be his reasoning for dodging the Vietnam War, because he thought that it was illegitimate too?
He ended his comments by saying on the ABC News magazine This Week: "The administration decided to launch this invasion virtually alone and before the UN inspections were completed-with no real urgency, no evidence that there was any weapons of mass destruction there."
Did Bill forget that the UN inspectors were kicked out of Iraq by Saddam Hussien? The evidence was spread all over the Kurds to the north in Iraq. What more evidence does he need?
If Hillary wants to win in 2008, she needs to get her blowhard husband to shut up, and get out of the limelight that is the media.
Otherwise, Bill can keep running his mouth off, and keep those moral-busting remarks coming. Republicans need more conservative leadership in the White House in 2008 as Condoleezza Rice takes the oath of office as President of the United States.
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