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Bill Clinton: Obama May Look Like A “Wuss” Over Syria
Daily Beast ^ | June 13, 2013 | Josh Rogin

Posted on 06/13/2013 8:17:20 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

In sharp remarks directed against his Democratic successor and his wife’s former boss, President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that President Barack Obama risks looking like a “wuss,” a “fool,” and “lame” for not doing more to influence events in Syria.

Clinton, speaking with Sen. John McCain Tuesday night in a closed press event sponsored by the McCain Institute, contrasted Obama’s inaction in Syria to his own action in the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo, which included the bombing of the forces of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Clinton said a president must look beyond public and Congressional reluctance to military intervention for the sake of national security and to save lives.

“You just think how lame you’d be… suppose I had let a million people, two million people be refugees out of Kosovo, a couple hundred thousand people die, and they say, ‘You could have stopped this by dropping a few bombs. Why didn’t you do it?’ And I say, ‘because the House of Representatives voted 75% against it?’” Clinton said. “You look like a total wuss, and you would be.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billclinton; obama; syria
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1 posted on 06/13/2013 8:17:20 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

...and the lesson to be learned there is if the president is going to chose sides, be better be sure he chooses the right side.


2 posted on 06/13/2013 8:19:43 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Bomb 'em!!... Bomb 'em!! ...Bomb 'em NOW!!!

I Don't Care Who! ...Just Bomb Somebody!

3 posted on 06/13/2013 8:22:40 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

A “wuss”, Bubba? As in, the type of “wuss” that doesn’t retaliate for the terror bombings two American Embassies, resulting in the deaths of 200+ people?


4 posted on 06/13/2013 8:23:29 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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...and the lesson to be learned there is if the president is going to chose sides, be better be sure he chooses the right side.

Secular homicidal thug that has not threatened us vs. radical Islamist megahomicidal thugs that regularly threaten us. Hmm, can't really see a right side.

5 posted on 06/13/2013 8:25:48 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Do they have an aspirin factory in Syria??


6 posted on 06/13/2013 8:26:35 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Clinton, speaking with Sen. John McCain Tuesday night in a closed press event sponsored by the McCain Institute...

There's a McCain Institute? Who knew, and what the hell does it do?

“You just think how lame you’d be… suppose I had let a million people, two million people be refugees out of Kosovo, a couple hundred thousand people die, and they say, ‘You could have stopped this by dropping a few bombs. Why didn’t you do it?’

How many people died in Rwanda and Billy Boy didn't do a g**damn thing to save a single one of them.... And why didn't he drop a bomb on ubl when he had the chance(s)?

7 posted on 06/13/2013 8:27:08 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

HA-HA, slapping Obama when he’s down.

However link says ‘Clinton, speaking with Sen. John McCain Tuesday night in a closed press event sponsored by the McCain Institute, ...’

That should tell you how much this advice is worth. I still question Clintons bombing of Serbia, but at least he didnt invade and occupy.


8 posted on 06/13/2013 8:27:32 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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Didn’t he let 600,000 people die in the hutu vs tutsi war?


9 posted on 06/13/2013 8:28:33 AM PDT by edcoil (If you can't change the rules, then ignore them.)
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He is a wuss and uses proxies for his sissy ideas to fight his battles.

Guy is a pussy.


10 posted on 06/13/2013 8:29:19 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Oh, come on, everyone. America stands as the world’s shining example of the welfare/warfare state. Everyone oughtta be doing it!


11 posted on 06/13/2013 8:30:11 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Demand Common Sense Nut Control.)
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Clinton's vs Obama’s?

Better stock up on popcorn. This will be fun.

12 posted on 06/13/2013 8:30:12 AM PDT by McGruff (I can't speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant,)
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Rwanda, Bill


13 posted on 06/13/2013 8:34:43 AM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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muzzies killin’ muzzies....why would we want to interfere?


14 posted on 06/13/2013 8:35:10 AM PDT by clintonh8r ("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
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what were you in Somalia, Bubba..? waiting waiting waiting


15 posted on 06/13/2013 8:37:29 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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To: ScottinVA

african embassies that were being provided security oversight by Susan Rice, no less, another clinton carry-over


16 posted on 06/13/2013 8:38:22 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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Great, Bubba.

Challenge O'bama's manhood.

That'll work out great, you fool.

He'll do something just to be doing something.

17 posted on 06/13/2013 8:43:57 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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When the “Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001” begins lecturing the Current Occupant on being a “wuss”, then you know the gloves are off in this slap-fight.

The Red Chinese have also lectured The Won on his economic policies, and the Russian Federation Maximum Leader Putin puts in his two cents’ worth concerning domestic “observation” of suspicious elements.

I begin to see a pattern emerging here, maybe the Hope & Change has become the Hop & Chant.


18 posted on 06/13/2013 8:49:41 AM PDT by alloysteel (When did the government suddenly become our psycho ex-girlfriend? - Jay Leno)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Didn’t he give away our secrets long ago.

Go away, Bubba.


19 posted on 06/13/2013 8:49:57 AM PDT by Christie at the beach
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“You just think how lame you’d be… suppose I had let a million people, two million people be refugees out of Kosovo, a couple hundred thousand people die, and they say, ‘You could have stopped this by dropping a few bombs. Why didn’t you do it?’

Willie, don't go all high-minded on us. You know damn good and well the reason you started bombing Serbia was to divert the press from a.) impeachment, b.) Juanita Broaddrick and c.) the Cox Committee.

Oh...and Hillary told you to...

20 posted on 06/13/2013 8:57:09 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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