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."
Exactly! I'm tired of this fraud ex-president and his merry band of troublemakers.
"What about the Falklands, Bill? Or doesn't that count?"
Count as what? It certainly doesn't count as an insurgency if that's the part you're referring to. The inhabitants of the Islands were very much in favour of being under British control.
Bush's fault!
(Come to think of it I'm sure he's been told that a bazillion times....so nevermind on that suggestion, but I call dibs at second with the cane pole)
You can afford to be a little gracious in those circumstances.
(Although I loved it the other day when Bush listed Somalia as one of the things that encouraged the Islamofascists.)
Yep, and Hillbilly Clinton and his friends will do all they can to see to it the war goes wrong. And if it doesn't go wrong, the media will make it look that way, so Clinton knows that making this seditious prediction is a safe bet. If the war goes bad he's right. If we continue kicking butt in Iraq and the media continue reporting the direct opposite, he's still right, (in the eyes of his scummy komrades).
Whatever he says or does from now until the 2008 election will be an effort to get his felonious wife elected president. I'm not sure how stating we will lose in Iraq wins the witch votes but you can bet that's what he had in mind.
He's like Kramer when Jerry made a bad stock purchase.
Cosmo Clinton is enjoying this just a bit too much.
Quagmire? I thought only the MSM got to use that term.
The lying SOB couldn't destroy the country while he was in but he is still trying.
How many times did Clinton speak of the danger of Saddam Hussein? How many times did Bill Clinton bomb Iraq? Didn't Hillary vote for the war? Clinton is too busy playing 'hide the salami' with the Dem base to let facts get in the way of his shameless opportunism.
class act...can't wait for the damage control on this one
Bill and Monica are two peas in a pod: Neither one of them can keep their mouth shut.
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