[Timeout]

Wooo Hooo! I'm on a roll tonight!

Another Clinton quote, from David Letterman Show, 9/12/2002:

Letterman asked, "Are we going into Iraq? Should we go into Iraq? I'd like to go in. I'd like to get the guy. I don't like the way the guy looks."

Clinton: "He is a threat. He's a murderer and a thug. There's no doubt we can do this. We're stronger; he's weaker. You're looking at a couple weeks of bombing and then I'd be astonished if this campaign took more than a week. Astonished."

Astonished Assinine

[Fledermaus]

I'm deeply saddened by Clinton's comments. I'm so disappointed.

[Miss Marple]

So now we have what...6 quotes? We need to assemble these into one post. Poor Ken Adelman only wrote one column, for heaven's sake. Clinton mouthed off all over the world!

[TigersEye]

Clinton: "He is a threat. He's a murderer and a thug.

I think I said that about him in Sept. 2000. But then so did a few thousand other people.

[dogbyte12]

If you read that quote from Clinton, looks like he was talking 3 weeks then.

2 weeks of bombing, followed by 1 week of ground fighting. Once we hit the three week mark, we shall see. I think everybody including Clinton, assumed we would do the long term air thing for a while first before deploying our troops. The irony of course is, that if we just bombed for the first 9 days, before we sent the troops in, I bet the reporters wouldn't be bitching so much about us being bogged down 50 miles from Bagdad, because we would still be in Kuwait now.

[cyncooper]

I just made my post to you about all of your great information........THEN I read the Letterman excerpt.

Yes, you are are a roll!

[Dolphy]

Clinton: "He is a threat. He's a murderer and a thug. There's no doubt we can do this. We're stronger; he's weaker. You're looking at a couple weeks of bombing and then I'd be astonished if this campaign took more than a week. Astonished."

From the Clinton camp in 1998:

"Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material breach of its international obligations...supporting and harboring terrorists."

And then this in 1998:

The current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its continuing hostility toward, and willingness to attack, the United States including by attempting in 1993 to assassinate the former President Bush and by firing on many thousands of occasions on the United States...

If it would take 3 weeks to do in Saddam then why didn't Clinton, given his 1998 statements? In attempting to set false expectations, he has simply indicted himself.

[Spunky]

"Clinton: "He is a threat. He's a murderer and a thug. There's no doubt we can do this. We're stronger; he's weaker. You're looking at a couple weeks of bombing and then I'd be astonished if this campaign took more than a week. Astonished."

I heard Rush reading this today. He said it is where all the media got the idea that this was going to be fast and easy.

#&@% *&$#% media. They will listen to a Clymer and not anyone who knows what they are talking about.