Posted on 11/10/2004 4:46:26 PM PST by BigWaveBetty
We've heard it time and time again from trolls, the MSM and democrats. Bush or Cheney or some other Bush Administration official said Iraq would be a "cakewalk."
Freepers know that is a lie but do we remember who did intimate that Iraq would be a push over? Why none other than Bill Clinton.
Now read Clinton's words from this transcript and story of his appearance on The David Letterman Show on September 12, 2002.
(CBS) Wednesday night on The Late Show, former President Bill Clinton gave David Letterman a few laughs - and a few lessons on the tense situation between the United States and Iraq. CBS News Correspondent Tracy Smith reports for The Early Show.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton. Here he is....,” said Letterman introducing the ex-president who walked on stage to the sultry sounds of the saxophone and wasted no time before cracking up the audience.
“You get a chance to play the saxophone much anymore?” asked Letterman. “I do,” said Mr. Clinton. “I set up a music room in my house up in Chapaqua.”
“Is that right?” said Letterman
“And blow away,” said the president, which got the audience exploding in laughter.
But the former president quickly got serious when Letterman mentioned Saddam Hussein.
Letterman asked, “Are we going into Iraq? Should we go into Iraq? I'd like to go in. I'd like to get the guy. I don't like the way the guy looks.”
“He is a threat. He's a murderer and a thug,” said Mr. Clinton. “There's no doubt we can do this. We're stronger; he's weaker. You're looking at a couple weeks of bombing and then I'd be astonished if this campaign took more than a week. Astonished.”
Even if the U.S. wins a war against Iraq and Saddam Hussein, Mr. Clinton said, a threat remains. He noted, “If he's got these stocks of chemical and biological weapons, and if he knows he's toast, don't you think he'll use what he can and give away what he can't to people who'll be using them on us for years to come so he can have the last laugh....”
Mr. Clinton clearly supports his successor.
“I think the President is doing the right thing to go to the United Nations, to ask them to do something and I hope that whatever we do - I think we need to turn up the heat, I think it's just a mistake to walk away from this,” said Mr. Clinton.
But he finds the idea of the U.S. acting against Iraq - with only British support – problematic. Even President Bush has expressed such reservations.
Mr. Clinton told Letterman that - for now - the next step should probably be more weapons inspections.
“I wouldn't be opposed to trying these inspections one more time because I know that they did work even when he was trying to undermine us, we kept getting tons of stuff out of there,” he said.
As for Mr. Clinton's next job, it won't be as a television host.
“What happened to the talk show - you were going to come here to CBS and do a TV show?” asked Letterman.
“I knew you were... I couldn't...I'm not as good as you are. I'm not as good as you are and besides that, you know, the only, I mean you got this locked up and the only thing that's available is daytime. Now, I wake up about 6 in the morning, I mean, I get up at 6 but I don't wake up till 4 or 5 in the afternoon. I'd be hopeless in daytime television,” answered Mr. Clinton.
Please pardon the foul language but I've had all I can take from lying democrats.
Glad I got that off my chest. :-)
Clinton keeps making news... I wish he'd stop
Great find, Betty. How had this ever passed by without being mentioned by hundreds of freepers before?
They'll say it depends on the meaning of "one week".
For all Slick's flaws, he has been relatively supportive of Dubya's foreign policy.
Troll: TRUTH DOES NOT MATTER! WE MUST DEFEAT BUSH!
Assistant: Sir, it's November 10th.
Troll: D'OH!
The left's hyprocrisy is dumbfounding, but then again, they authored the saying, "the ends justify the means."
In your eye, lib/dems....
I suspect he knows better than to be too critical. After all, the administration prolly has the goods on his incompetence.
Good point.
Good point.
Thanks for posting this. It will come in handy in future debates.
What does he know about combat, other than the occasional West Wing bedroom ashtray flying his way.
I hate to admit this but I've been steamed over this since clinton said it. I'll try google to see if I can find my first post on this from two years ago. I believe the first time I posted this info was on the Guild.
BUMP!!!
"I'd be astonished if this campaign took more than a week. Astonished."
But you have to realize, a Clinton "campaign" was lobbing a couple missles at empty tents, or bombing an aspiring factory.
Only when he sided with the islamonazis in the Balkans did he wage anything like a war.
So it depends on the definition of "campaign"...
Great story.
I wonder if when Hitlery runs for senate again, and Clintoon is stumpimg for her, will he dare to bring up Iraq if this statement is floating around?
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