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."
Does he mean like we lost in Somalia and Yugoslavia?
I can't believe this ASS would do this.
Who's Bill Clinton?
Better a president to lead and win that has cajones than one who plays with his cajones while Americans die.......
Dooom on Bubbafucco and his band of Clintonistas !
Yes, that is what he would like - anything to beat Bush.
Talk like this directly helps the enemy in killing our people. It is simply despicable, but what else do you expect from scum like Bill Clinton.
Ah...Mr. Carson...that should be MR. Clinton to you....and to anyone else who would dare to think of this man in presidential terms.
What about the Falklands, Bill? Or doesn't that count?
What else can we expect from the man who at an early age claimed to "loathe the military."
He will always be a dope-smoking, lying, womanizing, media-whore, traitorous POS who used the Oval Office as romper room.
"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."
Courtesy of Clinton's interpreter, Jay Carson.
Well, he does have a great military mind, you know.
BUBBA should stick with something he understands........like BL-W J-BS.
Now this is interesting and I'm sure well thought out. Hillary has supported this war. Does she need a graceful way out of supporting it to appeal to her leftist base? And Bill's pronouncement will encourage her to do that? Or does she need to appear her own woman and able to stand up to the former president? Is he saying this to give her an opportunity to show her stuff. Sorry, poor choice of words. Or does this give the Bill/Hill team a way to cover all their bases so that they can just lift a finger to the wind to make future policy choices like Bill did in his presidency?
By the way, you're still a traitorous stain upon the Presidency. You should've resigned and you have no honor, and your demoralizing comments against our troops are just the latest bit of evidence in that regard.
This dink is a Chinese agent. Has been for decades.
I like Dubya but he sure is a head-scratcher sometimes.
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He and his father are too kind for their own good. They are trying to bring the sociopath up to their level, but they only succeed in diminishing themselves.
"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."
If we can pull out there in a couple of years and leave a reasonably peaceful reasonably stable democracy that will a victory it will be hard to spin any other way.
ROFLMAO You got that right!
That son of a bitch.
What a jerk. How does this ninkcompoop think these words will be greeted by US armed forces in Iraq?
Mr. Clinton should keep his big yap shut...and what in blazes is he doing sitting down for an interview with the "Ladies Home Journal"? Do you reckon he's a subscriber?
Geez.
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