Posted on 11/18/2005 10:13:44 AM PST by MikeA
A man has a right to change his mind. So we guess Bill Clinton was within his rights when he told a student audience at the American University in Dubai that the Bush Administration had committed a "big mistake" by liberating Iraq. "Saddam is gone. It's a good thing, but I don't agree with what was done," said the former President.
In October 31, 1998, Mr. Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act. "The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at home. I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due to Iraq's history or its ethnic or sectarian makeup. Iraqis deserve and desire freedom like everyone else."
Nor is that all. In June 2004, over a year after the liberation of Iraq, Mr. Clinton had this to say to Time magazine: "You know, I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq, even though I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over. . . . After 9/11, let's be fair here, if you had been President, you'd think, Well, this fellow bin Laden just turned these three airplanes full of fuel into weapons of mass destruction, right? Arguably they were super-powerful chemical weapons. Think about it that way.
"So, you're sitting there as President, you're reeling in the aftermath of this, so, yeah, you want to go get bin Laden and do Afghanistan and all that. But you also have to say, 'Well, my first responsibility now is to try everything possible to make sure that this terrorist network and other terrorist networks cannot reach chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material. I've got to do that.'
"That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for. ..."
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"When are we going to end the politics of personal destruction?"
Bill Clinton
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G-d. Is this guy never going away? Why, oh, why were Bill 'n Hill not on the coast of Thailand dancing on the beach when the tidal wave struck last year.
How about Marc Rich, who paid for his pardon with a donation to the Clintoon Liebury?
Why does ANYONE give a rip about what this psychological wreck has to say?
Duh.
China.
Rapist42 and his Marxist, non-gendered partner are only the refection of a large segment of the electorate.
Bill waffling on the issues.
Looks funny in retrospect.
There are a number of people on Cafe Press selling t-shirst with either that exact reporduction of my sign or a variation.
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