Posted on 12/28/2005 12:17:44 AM PST by tlb
NEW YORK Appearing on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert this week, two broadcast veterans, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Ted Koppel...declared that Bill Clinton would have gone into Iraq just like George Bush if were still president in 2003.
Along with Russert, they also argued that it was a "uniformly held belief" that Saddam Hussein had WMD when the Iraq war began.
KOPPEL: I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11.
BROKAW: Right.
KOPPEL: If 9/11 had happened on Bill Clinton's watch, he would have gone into Iraq.
BROKAW: Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, we would have to talk about Impeaching him now for doing so, right?
Must... keep.. straight...face...
BWAHAAHAAAAHAAAAAA!!!!!
You sure this wasn't on Comedy Central? If not, it should have been.
Brokaw: Yeah. Yeah.
Both: YEAH!
(Koppel & Brokaw engage in a media orgy - scene fades to black)
What the hell does that mean? Is it a word, or an adolescent expletive?
Have you ever battened down your poker face, to keep from laughing hysterically at something so outrageous as these two asshats carrying water for William the Impeached?
KOPPEL: I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11.
Gag me...... LOL
I took it as laughter.
Cobra64..."BWAHAAHAAAAHAAAAAA!!!!!" is as much of a FReeperism as "hugh," "series," "stuned," "loose" or "beeber."
You've been around here long enough! We have our own language about things.
Here's another classic from Old Sarge: "Must... keep.. straight...face..."
Have a stick-ectomy...'k?
Lets look clearly at the facts and thinking method of Billy Boy. After the first attempt on the World Trade Center...nothing. After the Africa consulate bombings...there was some investigation work...but no revenge. After the Cole....some finger-pointing but no revenge. If Billy Boy had been around for 9-11...he would have felt their pain. I doubt seriously that he would have flown to Cheyenne Mountain to consider national security...he would have rather flown to NY City to see the destruction and hold their hands. He might have asked the State Departement....not the CIA...to figure out who did this. And he might have asked the Afghan government to simply hand over Ossama...which they would not have done. After a year of trying to use the UN to coach the Afghan's into handing over Ossama....he would have gone to the press and said that he had done all that he could do. The amusing thing here is that Al Gore....with what little military background that he had...probably would have at least invaded Afghanistan...were he the president at the time. So that would be an improvement over Billy Boy. But Al would have set the limit to Afghanistan and getting purely Ossama...nothing more. Saddam would still be in power, and his sons waiting for him eventual death to take the reins of power.
Koppel and Brokaw can chat up a storm....but neither have a sense of reality about the nation or the world. They live inside a insulated cube...and have a marginal view of the real world.
Great post!
I hope the GOP has tapes of this handy for every fundraising event on the 2006 schedule.
But, don't forget. The asshat activated the Arkansas National Guard...once I believe.
Oh Lord, you gave him eyes yet he does not see....
KOPPEL: If 9/11 had happened on Bill Clinton's watch, he would have gone into Iraq.
Methinks the Condom King would have launched a few cruise missiles and settled back for another Lewinsky....
Clinton wouldn't have gone into South Carolina if the Rebs were firing on Fort Sumter.
Don't tell that to Nancy Pelosi -- she's having too much fun lying about it.
One item they did not address...Had 9/11 happened during Clinton's last year, might he have been inclined to stay?
BLACKHAWK DOWN
These two words say it all!
Yea, right and he would have had them bomb aspirin factories and pulled out immediately afterward.
Clinton knows a woman with the name of Iraq?
It's interesting that these talking heads think this- considering that their little tin god failed to do a damn thing each and every time we were attacked while he was squatting in the White House...
Perhaps. But would Bill wait for UN's complete "approval"?
This is has been true for several years.
Two prime examples of why the MSM is irrelevant.
Hillary would have stepped in and said....The budget calls for social programs, not war programs. We've managed to cut the military budget and siphon that money off. Don't mess it up with a war and useless security changes.
Well if Brokaw and Koppel say it's so, then it must be! LOL. But hey, if having an impeached ex president on your side makes you feel better...
Good catch!
Now we just need Rush to get the audio and play it from the mountaintops.
I doubt that very much. Afganistan maybe, but not Iraq.
I don't think so! Mr. Clinton was offered Bin Laden but refused to take him. Not sure why but no look at the situation we are in.
I think Clinton would have pondered the question during one of his BJ sessions. LOL..........Not!
Here's the statement these two miserable creatins should be discussing and agreeing on: "If George W Bush had been president during Clintoon's terms, 9/11 never would have happened."
Clinton would never violate his "No boots on the ground" policy. It might have affected his poll numbers. These 2 clowns are saying this to make to make him look good. They both know it was the right thing to do.
Clinton can STILL be impeached (again!). Just because a person is no longer President doesn't mean he cannot be impeached. His pension can be taken away and he could be charged with treason in so many things..........
Oh, come on now......no facts allowed/sarc
I wish I had thought about that one....
Scumbag's standard line was "we will round up these criminals and bring them to [Janet Reno's] justice. He said that after every single attack, like some tape recording--he never changed those words.
A better question to ask is what would Ronald Reagan or Teddy Roosevelt had done if the USS Cole was attacked by a (nation sponsor] after that [nation spnsor] had already declared war against the USA. Bin laden declared war against the USA in 1995-1996. Besides the USS Cole, the number of attacks on US interests was lengthy during Scumbag's regime.
Scumbag's response? Blow j**s in the Oral Office and his standard line of "we will hunt down these criminals and bring them to [Janet Reno's] justice."
Brokaw and Koppel are nuts.
Was bin Ladin a Clinton or DNC campaign contributor?
Or maybe a blackmailer?
Yea.......right! If he had, he might have had to Monica out from under his desk and we know that wouldn't have happened.
More wishful thinking on the MSM koolaid drinkers.
KOPPEL: I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11.Whoa, hold on a minute.BROKAW: Right.
KOPPEL: If 9/11 had happened on Bill Clinton's watch, he would have gone into Iraq.
BROKAW: Yeah. Yeah.
So are they saying that Dubya was right? Orrr.. that Clinton would have conducted an 'illegal invasion' too - but that would have been okay?
(these peckerwoods are mentally ill)
Yah, and the current Democrat position on Iraq is: "We-ee want to win too-oo."
Appearing on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert this week, two broadcast veterans, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Ted Koppel
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A 3 Stooges Meet the PerPs holiday special. ;)
ONLY if the polls said "go into Iraq."
I love that!
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