Clinton hopes Saddam will 'come to his senses'

CNN ^ | Friday, February 7, 2003

[demlosers]

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton said he hopes President Bush gets the support of the United Nations before undertaking any military action against Iraq, but he said international law doesn't require that he do so. In an exclusive interview Thursday on CNN's "Larry King Live," the former president said he sees a good possibility that the international community will unite to force Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to disarm.

[fhayek]

This can't be right. The man promised to have the most ethical administration in history. There must be a mistake.

[hope]

hmmm, do I detect a few bite marks in his lower lip?

[He Rides A White Horse]

You'd do better to ask Bush and Powell, since they were the ones pushing for it. I believe it involved re-examining the list of items approved for import into Iraq in order to remove some dual use items that had been overlooked first time 'round.

I get the feeling some dual use items aren't a problem for Iraq anymore. They may even be able to manufacture such things themselves actually. It's what happens when you have cowardly, animal gland eating allies as friends.

'Allies' who would help brutal dictators procure certain things if it meant keeping the United States in check (in check against what, I wonder)...............

I think that when the United States and its friends (the real friends, mind you) invade Iraq (and win, overwhelmingly, and crushingly), WE ARE GOING TO FIND THINGS that will cause us to sharply reevaluate who our friends are really are.

[woodyinscc]

" North Korea is a petulant child.

Take away it's dessert, confine it to its bedroom and don't let it out until it learns to behave. Keep talking to it, though, and watching it, so it doesn't light the bedsheets on fire"

Can you believe his mindset? He just made the handling of a rogue nation with at least two nukes, analogous to a six yr old.

[He Rides A White Horse]

He just made the handling of a rogue nation with at least two nukes, analogous to a six yr old.

Right, except this six year old thinks he was born of a thunderclap and lightning, and his 'bedsheets' are east Asia.

Perhaps that 'thunderclap and lightning' are more like a premonition of his own end if he launches his 'preemptive strike'.

[Kahuna]

His parting post (81) mentioned that it was his nap time. Think he met his match on his inaugural day and mommy sent him to his room to reconsider his profound strategery with the PRK.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Kim Jong makes statements about 'preemptive strikes'. Here's a guy who makes such an overt threat; we know he has 2 or 3 nuclear weapons. Where is the world in their condemnation?............yet our President is the reckless one. Launch when ready Kim Jong. I hope you have made the appropriate preparations to die. Because you will if you do that.

News flash........we won't surrender when you do it.....we're not the French. You'll be incinerated. As I've stated before, no more Western babes, cigars, steak, all those trappings of western civilization you crave for yourself (but toss your own people into prison for same) for you.

No, wilting glorious flower, you die.

[woodyinscc]

Im sure glad we have a President who really knows what has to be done. Can you believe we have millions in this country that can be swayed to his mindset?

[He Rides A White Horse]

.......and our liberal media criticized the President for his "Axis of Evil" sppech. Said it wasn't the right thing to say about North Korea. Alienates them.

Nah, some would rather we let another Kim Jong spring up in Iraq. Let Saddam gets his weapons of blackmail, negotiate with him then. Yeah right.

He's an idea..........how about we totally flog Saddam and his Republic of Fear, and then ask the North Koreans how they feel about negotiating away their budding arsenal.

Kim Jong and Saddam and others who want to play games. Here's a game..........it's called, find the "Trident submarine before you become fused with the North Korean countryside"

........think you'll win, Kim Jong?

[LibertarianLiz]

I just wish that Clinton would just go away.

Actually, you may have already gotten your wish. I have been finding it passing strange today that there really has been no commentary on his appearance on LKL. A former president sits for an hour with Larry King and talks about the days events, and no one has any commentary about it the next day.

Maybe I have just missed it, but I haven't seen anything on FoxNews and I was really expecting something from Brit Hume's panel today. I go to two different blog-sites and there was no mention of Clinton on LKL at all. No outrage at something he had said, not even a comment about him being on at all. I find this very unusual.

So, perhaps it has happened. Bubba speaks, and no one cares.

[woodyinscc]

Bush knows how serious the sit. is in NK. Yet the same who are responsible for it, are attacking him. The only reason Kim Jong has not attacked SK is because of what you say!

[Kahuna]

Reisei's "mindset" stems from a hatred of GWB. His agenda to blame America first is, as you say, shared with millions of our fellow citizens. Seems to me that we do what we can do to educate them in a friendly way, as you have done on this thread, and keep me from posting because I would like to kick their commie a$$es.

[woodyinscc]

"{So, perhaps it has happened. Bubba speaks, and no one cares."

I think you are on to something! I expected a big live thread on FR this morn. There were a few, but nothing like I expected. I think the press has finally figured out he is hurting their credibility too.

[arasina]

I just wish that Clinton would just go away.

Evidently he won't be going away soon. I see he never got around to packing his bags.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Kim Jong isn't trying to scare George Bush.......he's trying to scare the American people.

.....because just like every other totalitarian freak of nature, he tries to use our freedoms against us.

Just like al-Qaeda, they think our free society is a weakness. A point of attack.

[woodyinscc]

"I would like to kick their commie a$$es."

TOUCHE!

[He Rides A White Horse]

Kim Jong wants the American liberal press to come to his defense.............he knows that what he says will be reported. That he's threatening us. He hopes that very free press will be a tool of his.

"New York Slimes, report to your people how I will nuke you if you don't give in to me. Give me this and that or there will be big trouble for you. Make my pronouncements of death part and parcel of the news at eleven"

It's five to midnight for Saddam Hussein, and the news isn't good, Kim Jong. Stay tuned.

[aruanan]

Clinton hopes Saddam will 'come to his senses'

About as much chance as Clinton giving up that which really can't be defined as intercourse.

[woodyinscc]

Your well informed, and intellectual grasp of the situation makes me proud a friend told me about FR.

Woody