Posted on 11/27/2007 6:25:39 PM PST by jdm
During a campaign swing for his wife, former President Bill Clinton said flatly yesterday that he opposed the war in Iraq “from the beginning” — a statement that is more absolute than his comments before the invasion in March 2003.
Before the invasion, Mr. Clinton did not precisely declare that he opposed the war. A week before military action began, however, he did say that he preferred to give weapons inspections more time and that an invasion was not necessary to topple Saddam Hussein.
At the same time, he also spoke supportively about the 2002 Senate resolution that authorized military action against Iraq.
Advisers to Mr. Clinton said yesterday that he did oppose the war, but that it would have been inappropriate at the time for him, a former president, to oppose — in a direct, full-throated manner — the sitting president’s military decision.
Mr. Clinton has said several times since the war began that he would not have attacked Iraq in the manner that President Bush had done. As early as June 2004, he said, “I would not have done it until after Hans Blix finished the job,” referring to the weapons inspections there before the war.
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Yeah, right. Hillary consults him before she makes any decisions herself. So why did she vote to go into Iraq, then?
= never.
He’s lying....What else is new?
I was opposed to Clintoon before he started.
The reason he opposes the war is that it shows just how weak he truly was and is. He had EIGHT YEARS to try and avoid the war. He didn’t do jack about terrorism. Bush is. It makes X42 look more like the loser he is. So, that, in a nutshell, is why klinton opposes the war.
Bill and Hill are the biggest Bloviators ever!
“Bill Clinton Flatly Asserts He Opposed War at Start”
I believe him.
Because he had reasons to oppose another President “neutralizing”
Saddam and Sons.
Because, to hijack the title of a PBS Frontline segment, President
Bill Clinton went “Gunning For Saddam” and all he shot...
were BLANKS!
(translation: he didn’t want another President, especially a Republican
President to succeed where Bill Clinton had really truly FAILED.)
“Gunning For Saddam”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/
(It irritates me that I have to “tip the hate” to PBS/Frontline for
exposing Bill Clinton’s “less-than-excellent” adventure in trying to
depose Saddam. Sure didn’t hear much of the reportage in this PBS
special being broadcast on MSM outlets when Bubba was Pres.)
What a jerk! It was just a matter of time for him to come up with this.
History and the civilized world will judge these useful idiots harshly.
Post #8 might be of interest.
EASILY proved a lie... look up his statement where he said that he wished he had been a War President... he praised Bush highly... but the polls were 78% for War then!
LLS
I distinctly remember Clinton making public statements that he supported the conclusion that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that the situation had not changed since he went to congress for approval to go into Iraq. Of course, Clinton never did it, but that was only because he didn’t have the guts.
Must suck to have syphilis dementia.
“The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.” — Bill Clinton in 1998
Gee, Slick. YA THINK? The blood of the 3K plus soldiers who have died in Iraq & Afghanistan is on HIS hands, as far as I’m concerned. Fiddling & diddling while Rome burned. What an @ss.
[Before the invasion, Mr. Clinton said there were alternatives to war. . .“He’s finally destroying his missiles, so let’s give him a certain date in which, in this time, he has to destroy the missiles. . .I’m for regime change, too, but there’s more than one way to do it. We don’t invade everybody whose regime we want to change.”]
If the invasion was to take place the optimum time was before the high temperatures of late spring and summer for which much of the U.S. force was not acclimated. Saddam knew this and would drag out the inspections as long as possible.
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Plans for the invasion of Iraq were drawn up by the staff of Clinton’s National Security Council. In the last two years of the Clinton Administration the Iraq policy changed from sanctions/negotiation to regime change.
Kenneth Pollock of Clinton’s NSC advocated invasion in 2002:
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20020301faessay7970/kenneth-m-pollack/next-stop-baghdad.html
May 19, 2003- (Associated Press): (snip) “Former President Bill Clinton, “I supported the president when he asked for authority to stand up against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but we can’t be forever strong abroad if we don’t keep getting better at home,” Clinton said Sunday to a crowd of about 8,000. […] The Bush administration, Clinton said, ‘is still focused on defeating terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and that’s good, but not good enough.”
April 14, 2003 (Minneapolis Star Tribune): “In his first speech in Minnesota since leaving office, former President Bill Clinton on Sunday praised President Bush’s handling of the war in Iraq. But he criticized Bush’s domestic priorities and urged the administration to offer North Korea aid and a pledge of nonaggression in exchange for an end to that country’s missile and nuclear weapons programs.” [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 4/14/03]
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