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Koppel and Brokaw Agree: Clinton Would Have Gone Into Iraq, Too
Editor and Publisher ^ | December 27, 2005 11:55 PM ET | E&P Staff

Posted on 12/28/2005 12:17:44 AM PST by tlb

NEW YORK Appearing on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert this week, two broadcast veterans, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Ted Koppel...declared that Bill Clinton would have gone into Iraq just like George Bush if were still president in 2003.

Along with Russert, they also argued that it was a "uniformly held belief" that Saddam Hussein had WMD when the Iraq war began.

KOPPEL: I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11.

BROKAW: Right.

KOPPEL: If 9/11 had happened on Bill Clinton's watch, he would have gone into Iraq.

BROKAW: Yeah. Yeah.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brokaw; bush43; clinton; delusion; idiots; iraq; koppel; nbcnews; riverinegypt; russert; scumbag; x42
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Hadn't noticed this story mentioned anywhere.
1 posted on 12/28/2005 12:17:45 AM PST by tlb
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To: tlb
Liberal hindsight. And why didn't he get bin Ladin when could have?
2 posted on 12/28/2005 12:20:50 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: tlb

Well, we would have to talk about Impeaching him now for doing so, right?


3 posted on 12/28/2005 12:21:22 AM PST by msnimje (The World has a hideous and invasive cancer and needs a radical muslimechtomy.)
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To: tlb
I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11.

Must... keep.. straight...face...

BWAHAAHAAAAHAAAAAA!!!!!

4 posted on 12/28/2005 12:22:57 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: tlb
Pure BS!

I don't really care what either of them think. They are two of the most uninformed people on the planet since they never get out of their ivory towers. And especially since they don't talk or listen to anyone who disagrees with them.

Bill Clinton is a draft dodging coward. He wouldn't have taken the chance and besides his toe sucking pollster wouldn't let him. The only reason he lobbed missiles in Osama's direction was because he was about to be IMPEACHED!
5 posted on 12/28/2005 12:25:30 AM PST by kcvl
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To: tlb

You sure this wasn't on Comedy Central? If not, it should have been.


6 posted on 12/28/2005 12:39:44 AM PST by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: tlb
Koppel: Yeah.

Brokaw: Yeah. Yeah.

Both: YEAH!

(Koppel & Brokaw engage in a media orgy - scene fades to black)

7 posted on 12/28/2005 12:40:23 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Old Sarge
BWAHAAHAAAAHAAAAAA!!!!!

What the hell does that mean? Is it a word, or an adolescent expletive?

8 posted on 12/28/2005 12:43:25 AM PST by Cobra64
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To: Cobra64

Have you ever battened down your poker face, to keep from laughing hysterically at something so outrageous as these two asshats carrying water for William the Impeached?


9 posted on 12/28/2005 12:45:58 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: tlb

KOPPEL: I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11.


Gag me...... LOL


10 posted on 12/28/2005 12:56:41 AM PST by alaskamomma
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To: Cobra64

I took it as laughter.


11 posted on 12/28/2005 12:58:16 AM PST by Prodigal Son
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To: Cobra64; Old Sarge; All
What the hell does that mean? Is it a word, or an adolescent expletive?

Cobra64..."BWAHAAHAAAAHAAAAAA!!!!!" is as much of a FReeperism as "hugh," "series," "stuned," "loose" or "beeber."

You've been around here long enough! We have our own language about things.

Here's another classic from Old Sarge: "Must... keep.. straight...face..."

Have a stick-ectomy...'k?

12 posted on 12/28/2005 1:04:15 AM PST by paulat
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To: kcvl

Lets look clearly at the facts and thinking method of Billy Boy. After the first attempt on the World Trade Center...nothing. After the Africa consulate bombings...there was some investigation work...but no revenge. After the Cole....some finger-pointing but no revenge. If Billy Boy had been around for 9-11...he would have felt their pain. I doubt seriously that he would have flown to Cheyenne Mountain to consider national security...he would have rather flown to NY City to see the destruction and hold their hands. He might have asked the State Departement....not the CIA...to figure out who did this. And he might have asked the Afghan government to simply hand over Ossama...which they would not have done. After a year of trying to use the UN to coach the Afghan's into handing over Ossama....he would have gone to the press and said that he had done all that he could do. The amusing thing here is that Al Gore....with what little military background that he had...probably would have at least invaded Afghanistan...were he the president at the time. So that would be an improvement over Billy Boy. But Al would have set the limit to Afghanistan and getting purely Ossama...nothing more. Saddam would still be in power, and his sons waiting for him eventual death to take the reins of power.

Koppel and Brokaw can chat up a storm....but neither have a sense of reality about the nation or the world. They live inside a insulated cube...and have a marginal view of the real world.


13 posted on 12/28/2005 1:16:39 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: tlb
Thanks for the article.

IMO, Even if he wanted too, Clinton would not have been able to provide the leadership to get it done. At least not without a dramatic transformation.

Wolf
14 posted on 12/28/2005 1:22:05 AM PST by RunningWolf (Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
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To: tlb

Great post!

I hope the GOP has tapes of this handy for every fundraising event on the 2006 schedule.


15 posted on 12/28/2005 1:33:33 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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"Koppel and Brokaw Agree: Clinton Would Have Gone Into Iraq, Too"

These two Clinton-apologist rusty spews-anchors pose their revisionist opinion as factual and/or probable. "Liberals" will pick up on the planted idea so expect to hear Brokaw and Koppel's opinion transformed into the Democrat party's latest groupthink mantra. Koppel and Brokaw are a study in self-consuming irrelevancy.
16 posted on 12/28/2005 1:36:12 AM PST by purpleland (Elegy 9/11/01 Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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To: RunningWolf
IMO, Even if he wanted too, Clinton would not have been able to provide the leadership to get it done.

But, don't forget. The asshat activated the Arkansas National Guard...once I believe.

17 posted on 12/28/2005 1:44:36 AM PST by jslade (What is "social justice" but enforced lack of justice for those who do productive work?)
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To: tlb
KOPPEL: I mean, the only difference between the Clinton administration and the Bush administration was 9/11.

Oh Lord, you gave him eyes yet he does not see....

KOPPEL: If 9/11 had happened on Bill Clinton's watch, he would have gone into Iraq.

Methinks the Condom King would have launched a few cruise missiles and settled back for another Lewinsky....

18 posted on 12/28/2005 1:53:24 AM PST by NRA1995 (Jesus is the reason for the season)
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To: tlb
BS!

Clinton wouldn't have gone into South Carolina if the Rebs were firing on Fort Sumter.

19 posted on 12/28/2005 2:17:00 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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The ONLY things that could get BJ Clinton into Iraq - would be some "campaign contributions" or a blow job.

Clinton was a criminally negligent POS and a coward to the bone.

Semper Fi
20 posted on 12/28/2005 2:20:15 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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