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Bill Clinton: Iraq Changes Good for Region
AP ^ | May 18, 2005 | Jan M. Olsen

Posted on 05/18/2005 11:49:38 AM PDT by Squawk 8888

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Former President Clinton said Wednesday the political changes in Iraq, including parliamentary elections in January, will help bring stability to the region.

Clinton met with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and a number of Danish lawmakers during his visit. The former president spoke with reporters before flying to Jordan for a poverty conference.

"The Sunnis and the Shiites, the Kurds and all the various tribes can work out accommodations that will allow them to build a stable society, I think that will be good for Iraq and good for the Middle East," Clinton said at the end of a two-day visit to Denmark.

In January, Iraq held the its first democratic parliamentary elections to choose a 275-member National Assembly and provincial legislatures.

"There is no point living in the past," Clinton said. "Look at where we are now. Everyone, all freedom-loving people would be better off with a genuinely representative, effective, free government in Iraq whatever your feelings are about what went on before."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; repeat; trysearch
The fireworks over at DU are quite a show right now.
1 posted on 05/18/2005 11:49:39 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
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To: Squawk 8888

Give us a taste :-)


2 posted on 05/18/2005 11:50:39 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: Squawk 8888

et tu Bill?


3 posted on 05/18/2005 11:51:09 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: Squawk 8888

That's what happens when you hang out with the President's dad.


4 posted on 05/18/2005 11:52:13 AM PDT by Flyer (I've seen your king come and go here)
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To: Squawk 8888

Clinton, an opportunistic commie fraud.


5 posted on 05/18/2005 11:53:13 AM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (Allen/DeLay '08!!)
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To: Squawk 8888
"... The fireworks over at DU are quite a show right now."

They've been outsmarted by the Clintons again.

6 posted on 05/18/2005 11:54:51 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Semper Fi!)
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To: rhombus

Sounds like a good topic for DUmmie FUnnies.


7 posted on 05/18/2005 11:56:17 AM PDT by Democratshavenobrains
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To: Stellar Dendrite

Just wait and see, as the situation in the ME gets better due to the President's policies good old slick willie will be there to say that it's all because of what he did as pres (that is, when he wasn't trying to figure out the definition of is)


8 posted on 05/18/2005 11:56:37 AM PDT by tarzantheapeman (Kerry had a hangnail yesterday - it's seared, seared in his memory.)
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"Just wait and see, as the situation in the ME gets better due to the President's policies good old slick willie will be there to say that it's all because of what he did as pres (that is, when he wasn't trying to figure out the definition of is)"

You know this man better than he knows himself.


9 posted on 05/18/2005 11:57:43 AM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (Allen/DeLay '08!!)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

Don't forget the man was very ill and could have died. Experiences like that sometime turns on the light in one's thinking. For now, I will give him the benefit of the doubt and hope that its for real. Compared to some of the dems now, he is almost charming. LOL


10 posted on 05/18/2005 11:58:57 AM PDT by tirednvirginia (But things are looking up!)
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To: Squawk 8888

well now that Bill's ok with it I guess the world is a safer place! /sarsasm


11 posted on 05/18/2005 12:01:54 PM PDT by bubman
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To: Stellar Dendrite
It's too bad that we all know him better than he knows himself.

It will be a running joke in American history (that is if Brinkley doesn't write ala JF'nK).
12 posted on 05/18/2005 12:03:22 PM PDT by tarzantheapeman (Kerry had a hangnail yesterday - it's seared, seared in his memory.)
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To: Squawk 8888
And still no mention of the monumental change in Kuwait.

Women allowed to vote and run for office.

13 posted on 05/18/2005 12:25:30 PM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: tirednvirginia

Giving either grifter the benefit of the doubt is dangerous to our national security.


14 posted on 05/18/2005 12:26:22 PM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: Squawk 8888

Good 'ol Chicom Bill.
I could care less what he says, it's his actions I worry about. I don't trust this not one bit. Chicom Bill never misses an opportunity to get his sorry behind in the news.


15 posted on 05/18/2005 12:51:49 PM PDT by srotaG adirolF (Hater of all things democRat)
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To: Squawk 8888
The fireworks over at DU are quite a show right now.

Cool, do share!!!

16 posted on 05/18/2005 12:54:40 PM PDT by raivyn (I love the smell of FUMING LIBERALS in the morning, but I hate the noise. (Don't you?))
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To: tirednvirginia

I disagree, this man will never change. This is all posturing on his part in order to set his commie wife up for '08.

Earth to Clintons: America doesn't want you back in the WH.


17 posted on 05/18/2005 3:26:00 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (Allen/DeLay '08!!)
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