Posted on 12/01/2007 5:52:22 AM PST by vietvet67
As Hillary Clinton herself might put it, it is frankly naïve to be surprised when convenient historical revisions come out of Bill Clintons mouth.
The latest retroactive adjustment is Bills claim at an Iowa event this week that he approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginninga revelation to the many anti-war activists who received no public help from the former President back in 2002 and 2003 when they were pilloried and ridiculed for their views.
What does it mean to oppose it if you dont verbally say you are against the war? a baffled Chris Matthews wondered on his MSNBC show on Wednesday.
It means that youre dealing with Bill Clinton, the same guy who smoked marijuana without inhaling and who maneuvered his way out of Vietnam only to declare with a straight face, I put myself into the draft. I didn't take it out.
Some of Mr. Clintons defenders have pointed to a few quotes from 2003 that, they insist, validate Mr. Clintons claim in its entirety. Of course, they ignore other quotes that suggest just the opposite, just as they ignore what is glaringly obvious to anyone whose memory extends back to the start of this decade: When the Bush White House was beating the drums for war, Bill Clinton was silent.
Weve been down this road before.
The 1992 presidential race, you may recall, played out in the aftermath of the triumphant first Gulf War. Unlike the current Iraq war, which was rubber-stamped by a bipartisan majority (including, of course, Hillary Clinton), the Gulf War was a matter of fierce Congressional debate, with only 11 Senate Democrats voting to authorize it. (The resolution cleared on a 54-46 vote.)
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I thought he majored in Draft Avoidance Studies in the UK.
More curious, is why, now that things are looking up, does he distance himself from success? After Saddam was deposed, all the Bolshes took the position, look what the army of Bill Clinton did.
Bill Clinton “Am I gonna get some ACTION tonight?” Baaaaaaaa Ha Ha Ha!!!
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Good Post. Hard to believe this came from the MSM. Perhaps, they have another horse in the race? Regardless,good piece,
Bill Clinton is a pathological liar...these people haven’t figured that out yet?
Perhaps his brain is melting from having to spend so much quality time with his wife.
Something he has not had to do for several years -
Right now, Hillary needs the moonbat anti-war left to win the democrat nomination. A year from now, when Baghdad sports a Starbucks on every corner and the Cowboys/Patriots game is moved to Kirkuk, Bill Clinton will claim that he was always a supporter of the war. And few in the mainstream media will question his memory, his veracity, or his hypocrisy.
depends on what the word oppose...opposes!!!
Bill Clinton didn’t have to “say” he was against the Iraq war .. his actions during the run up to the war were proof enough.
Bill and Hillary toured Europe and other places, hawking Hillary’s book (at least that was the pretense). In actuality, Bill Clinton was going around the world lobbying OTHER NATIONS - what he wanted from them was this - DON’T SUPPORT BUSH’S PLAN TO ATTACK IRAQ. Bill and Hillary Clinton were back-stabbing their own president.
I wondered why Bill would do this until I found out that some of the FOB (Friends Of Bill) were the suppliers of the chemicals, armament, oil, technology, etc. and Iraq owed them MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. If we went to war - all the FOB were going to lose out on what Iraq owed them.
The Clintons are deceitful liars and anybody who wants them back in the WH has rocks for brains.
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