Bill Clinton: U.S. Likely to Lose in Iraq (GRRRRRRRRR!)

NewsMax ^ | 10/6/05

[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."

[Christian4Bush]

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[Christian4Bush]

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[melancholy]

Has this jackazz EVER been right about ANY aspect of foreign affairs?

Of course, it depends on what kind of "affair" you're talking about! /S

[in hoc signo vinces]

It's amazing how little shame he apparently feels for his legacy and tenure in office.

This guy deserves to be ridiculed through the end of his days, and in history books to come.

[JRP0322]

Great comment to keep the troops morale up.

[sandbar]

If I see one more photo-op with him and Bush's I will be furious!!! He is a sleazo and has used up the Bush family and now is repaying the favor to the Queen B*tch Hillary for her presidential bid.

[Colonial Warrior]

As usual, the Impeached Bill slobbers all over the microphones and offers his opinions...but REMEMBER he didn't do NOTHING RIGHT WHEN HE HAD THE REINS!!

This is not about MONICA, Bill!!

[thoughtomator]

So when is Bill going to pull the troops from the former Yugoslavia as promised?

[Major_Risktaker]

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."

October Suprise

[threeleftsmakearight]

By the way, Rapist, those other insurgencies you mentioned were actual uprisings by citizens of said countries.
This "insurgency" is lead by foreign terrorists...not remotely the same thing.

[eureka!]

Re#105 Trouble now is that the Sink Emperor doesn't command the coverage. That Freeh book will get a lot more...

[NormsRevenge]

Bubba knows about historical lessons.

Look at all the lessons he has taught many who licked his boots and what he gave them in return for loyalty.

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[TheDon]

Poor Billy, he didn't take care of Saddam when he should have, and now he has to bad mouth the President to make himself look better. What a surprise.

[righteousindignation]

AGREED!!!

[Condor51]

"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.

Hey Willard, what was your Major in College? Surely it wasn't HISTORY.

• Rebellion in US Occupied Korea 1946:
  Once the United States occupation force chose to bolster the status quo and resist radical reform of colonial legacies, it immediately ran into monumental opposition to its policies from the majority of South Koreans. The United States Army Military Government in Korea (1945-48) spent most of its first year suppressing the many people's committees that had emerged in the provinces. This action provoked a massive rebellion in the fall of 1946... the rebellion was suppressed

• Revolt in Madagascar 1947-1948
  ...In less than a year, Malagasy nationalist tribesmen rose in revolt in the island's eastern part; after receiving reinforcements, resident French soldiers were able to quell it...

• Korean Guerrilla War 1948-1949
  ..radical activists developed a significant guerrilla movement in 1948 and 1949

• Nationalist Uprising in Puerto Rico 1950
  Pedro Albizu Campos led a failed uprising in Puerto Rico, which was quickly defeated by the island's National Guard (October 30)

• East German Uprising 1953

• USSR Hungary Revolt 1956

• The Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia 1968

And Billy-Jeff last but not least was Israel's insurgency against the Brits.

[righteousindignation]

probably!

[wingnutx]

Our troops will never survive the brutal Iraqi winter!

Oops, that's Afghanistan, where no invader has ever managed to win.

We did? Damn.

[JRjr]

Now he has to go the Ladies Home Journal to burnish his image? If I were him, I'd be so embarrassed I'd never show my face in public again. Not for Monica, for Osama.