Posted on 10/06/2005 10:30:31 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Ex-president Bill Clinton is predicting that the U.S. will lose the war in Iraq, saying "the odds are not great of our prevailing there."
In an interview with the Ladies Home Journal due out next month, Clinton calls the Iraq war "a quagmire" and warns "it could go wrong."
He reminded: "Since the end of World War II, the only major foreign power that succeeded in putting down an insurgency was the British putting down the Malay insurgency, but the British stayed 15 years."
"So you can say for historical reasons, the odds are not great of our prevailing there," he argued.
Despite Clinton's prediction of U.S. failure, he said analogies to Vietnam were not fair. "The reason this is not Vietnam is that 58 percent of the eligible voters showed up and voted in Iraq," he told the Journal.
On the other hand, he said, the South Vietnamese government was "never legitimate" in the eyes of the Vietnamese.
Clinton spokesman Jay Carson immediately sought to tone down the ex-president morale-busting remarks, telling the New York Daily News:
"President Clinton has always been clear that there are reasons for optimism and that there clearly are reasons for concern with the current situation in Iraq. But no one has been clearer than President Clinton about the necessity of winning now that we are there."
This hillbilly should be beat with a cane poll, and I volunteer for that duty.
Well, he does have a great military mind, you know.
How are things in Bosnia these days, you CONVICTED LIAR?
That's it! I'm doing whatever I can to oppose his butt-ugly wife.
It's really neat how Dumbya did his little part in helping rehabilitate Clinton's image.
I like Dubya but he sure is a head-scratcher sometimes.
Bill Clinton, the brave warrior of Somalia, WTC 1, USS Cole... is not qualified to lecture anyone on security.
Only if I get to help!
Has this jackazz EVER been right about ANY aspect of foreign affairs?
When will GHWB's friend the aging porn star just STFU!
WE'RE DOOMED!!! Bill says we should just give up and go quietly in the night.
In a certain sense, he is right.
Whatever the outcome of the Iraq war, the left and the MSM will declare it a total failure.
As a professor I know used to say with regard to incorrect answers on exams, "Wishing won't make it so."
Hey, Bill? Shut your pie-hole, why dontcha.
Why in the hell would this whore monging idiot publicly say this? What a prick!
Yea really that confused me too. I guess Clinton wormed his way into Bush Sr.'s heart. I am chocking it up to Bush and his family being really kind hearted people.
I wish I could express how I feel about the turd from Arkansas but I really dont need the Secret Service knocking on my door.
Yes, that is what he would like - anything to beat Bush.
Clinton is acting like he's running for something - thePresident asks him to raise money for hurricane victims and he tours New Orleans to see how to spend it. He holds a global conference and now calls Iraq a quagmire.
I don't think it helps Hillary - particularly since she may have trouble with the Senate before the Presidential race even starts....
maybe this stuff helps him raise money for library.
Hey, stop posting this stuff!
We're too busy fighting amongst ourselves to pay attention.
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