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Clinton to Get Advanced Word of Iraq Attack
NewsMax.com ^
| 3/11/03
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 03/11/2003 11:50:47 PM PST by kattracks
When President Bush gives the order for U.S. forces to attack Iraq, ex-president Bill Clinton will be among a select handful of Americans who will be notified in advance, reports Fox News Channel's Monica Crowley.
"I'm sure many of you won't be too happy to learn that Clinton will know before the rest of us," Crowley said Sunday, while filling in for vacationing WABC Radio host Steve Malzberg.
Crowley explained that the White House practice of early notification of impending military action is a courtesy that extends to all ex-presidents "I remember when I worked for Richard Nixon, the White House would do the same thing for him," she told WABC. "So you can expect that Clinton will get the same treatment."
But the notion that the impeached, disbarred and nearly indicted ex-president will be given the top secret info on the Iraq attack is sure to prompt concern among many Americans. Especially given Clinton's recent attempts to undermine the Bush administration in interviews at home and speeches abroad.
In an October address to Great Britain's Labour Party, for instance, he not only criticized Bush foreign policy, he complained that the 2000 election wasn't legitimate.
"The election was so close in America that they won it fair and square - 5 to 4 at the Supreme Court" Clinton joked sarcastically to Labour's annual conference at Blackpool.
"We should actually be glad, though," he continued to grouse in mocking tones. "Because there were seven Republicans and only two Democrats on the Supreme Court - and two of those Republicans - God bless them, they will be rewarded in heaven - they actually took the decision that we should count votes when the American people vote, and I appreciate that."
Last week the ex-president said that his attacks on the Bush administration were appropriate. "I don't think that's being hateful or bad for the country or anything else," he told the Atlantic Monthly. "Even when I give these political speeches, almost in every speech I say, I don't want you ever to treat them the way they treated me. Don't do it."
Still, Clinton's continual criticism of Bush has ruffled more than a few GOP feathers, prompting Sen. John McCain, R-Az., to issue public reprimand.
"Look, former presidents can do damage," McCain told radio host Sean Hannity last month. "It's very unhelpful. It's in some ways damaging."
"I just have two words," he then added. "Shut up!"
Compounding concern over Mr. Clinton's likely early warning of any Iraq attack, it's probable he will share the secret information with his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton - who coordinates political attacks on the Bush White House as head of the Senate's Democratic Steering Committee.
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To: kattracks
I'm ill.
To: kattracks
Time to break tradition for the sake of National Security.
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posted on
03/12/2003 10:04:21 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Sua Sponte)
To: HAL9000
One can only HOPE...Please Go Bill
103
posted on
03/12/2003 10:04:42 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
To: kattracks
Is it just me, or is NewsMax completely obsessed with the Clintons? Of course a former US President is going to get advance warning of something like this -- even totally irrelevant former US Presidents such as Bill Clinton.
104
posted on
03/12/2003 10:19:31 AM PST
by
kesg
To: this_ol_patriot
Another opportunity to add to his off-shore accounts. I still hold out hope that he and his wife will go to jail for the crimes against this country. Hope springs eternal.
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posted on
03/12/2003 10:36:04 AM PST
by
Rockitz
(After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
To: kattracks
Um, now I'm confused. Does that mean that his Manchurian Candidate handlers have to get notified before or after Clinton himself gets notified?
To: kattracks
Last week the ex-president said that his attacks on the Bush administration were appropriate. "I don't think that's being hateful or bad for the country or anything else," he told the Atlantic Monthly. Another classic example of how Rotten this 'Third Way' Socialist SOB truly is. Only a True Sociopath could utter that sentence with a straight face and believe it to be true. What he's saying in quotes above is "I don't give a damn what Americans think of my Post-Presidency actions".He's beyond the point of being blasphemous against the USA. What have we as Americans(first and foremost) done, to deserve such a fate as having this wretched man rise to such heights in Society?Huh?
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posted on
03/12/2003 11:13:05 AM PST
by
Pagey
(Hillary Rotten is a Smug , Holier-Than-Thou Socialist.)
To: kattracks
"Even when I give these political speeches, almost in every speech I say, I don't want you ever to treat them the way they treated me. Don't do it."The sheer audacity to assert that he was treated unfairly is disgusting.David Shippers in his book "SELLOUT" states how The Senate Republicans refused to consider all of the other charges, which PALED in comparison to the Monica Lewinsky perjury etc.Trent and his boys said NO! Not going to look at it.Get That Book! If our Senators would've had any balls, Billy Jeff would be in Jail or hanging out w/ Marc Rich in Switzerland,know that!Shippers was not allowed to present the evidence he wanted.Period!Billy still thinks he hasn't done anything wrong.That is really whacked out thinking.Thanks alot to the N.Y. Left for keeping this guy and his 'for show only spouse' in our face.Someday,god may forgive you, but I won't.
108
posted on
03/12/2003 11:24:00 AM PST
by
Pagey
(Hillary Rotten is a Smug , Holier-Than-Thou Socialist.)
To: Centurion2000
Hmmmm? Didn't Bush just publically diss Ms. Helen Thomas ...?? Interesting.
And ... in lieu of the fact that x42's WIFE is a part of the Senate - won't SHE know ...?? If SHE knows - what's the purpose of informing x42 - SHE will tell him.
109
posted on
03/12/2003 11:56:39 AM PST
by
CyberAnt
( -> -> -> Oswego!!)
To: kattracks
This is just more UN-BBC-BS bunko news.
110
posted on
03/12/2003 12:13:36 PM PST
by
Helms
(Pacifism in Defence of Freedom is Indeed a Vice)
To: kattracks; JustPiper; PhiKapMom
The traitor: Jimmah KKKahtah
The traitor: BillyBub Blythe [AKA "Clinton"]
The traitor: Lee Wen Ho
The traitor: Berny Schwartz
The traitor: Richard Hanssen
The traitor: Aldrich Ames
The traitor: Ramsay Clarke
The traitor: Alberto Goreleone
The traitor: David Bonior of Michigan
The traitor: Mike Thompson of California
The traitor: Jim McDermott of Washington
The traitor: Scott Ritter of sexual criminality infamy
The traitor: Hitlery Rotten-Clinton
The traitor: Benedict Arnold [Whoops -- did a deal with a Clinton, so he's dead!]
Tell 'em all, why not? Tip off every American traitor!
111
posted on
03/12/2003 12:14:48 PM PST
by
Brian Allen
(This above all -- to thine own self be true)
To: Brian Allen
Why are we bothering with the lowlife scum that would love to take out President Bush? This is assinine!
112
posted on
03/12/2003 12:17:14 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
To: White Eagle One
Hey newbie, welcome to FR.
I'd forgotten about the Bering Sea Island giveaway.
And I was unaware that it was inhabited. How did this happen without Alaska raising a stink ?
To: kesg
well, wouldn't it be nice if the global left weren't obssessed with clintoon? also, i would appreciate it if Bubba were not committed to bringing our country and our president down. that would be a peach, but it ain't gonna happen. carl limbacher is doing the lord's work and I wish him Godspeed.
To: HAL9000
LOL!
Clintoon: draft dodger and Communist sympathizer defending America!
To: Calpernia
Good civics question! What does it mean when Congress passes an act, the president signs it into law, but it's never implemented? How can such a thing happen in the first place? And in the second place, what happens to the funds set aside for its implementation?
To: LibWhacker
"Better tap his phone in case he tries to tip off Saddam. At least we can get the SOB for treason once and for all."
I agree about tapping the phone, but somehow I doubt even that would land him in prison.
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posted on
03/12/2003 12:27:54 PM PST
by
Paulie
To: Pagey
You know, does anybody in here own a business with a bathroom? i think somebody needs to name urinals after the people we hate. i saw online that there is one named after hanoi jane. i think a slick willy is in order. i would never get to use it, i sit down when i urinate, but i would feel warm all over if i knew truckers the country over were pissing all over a urinal with his name on it.
To: LibWhacker
Were those rhetorical questions? Because I really don't know. What is more troubling, is why isn't it being followed up on. AND, doesn't it mean that Clinton should somehow be legally held responsible for the events of today?
To: Calpernia
They do sound a bit rhetorical, don't they. Sorry, I didn't mean them that way. I am genuinely puzzled. I took both American History and Political Science in college and I don't recall any such thing ever coming up in class (got good grades, too! :-).
I mean, if the President signs something into law, how can it subsequently be ignored? The only thing I can think of is that there must have been some provision in the bill that required some concrete gesture of committment out of the Kurds. And perhaps that didn't happen. They are a contentious lot, the Kurds.
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