Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Clinton on Lieberman & Bush


Not that Clinton... - Bill Clinton
Less than two weeks after Lieberman's loss to Lamont in which Bill Clinton campaigned for him, Clinton has some not very optomistic words about his 35 year friend.   Is this a sign of the tactics that Hillary will use this fall and in 2008..?   I don't think Bill would be out in public making damaging statements about Lieberman if it were not important strategy for the Democrats in this election cycle.   One way or the other Bill is tying Joementum to Bush and giving a preface of things to come, in my opinion.   - fc




Clinton Sounds Off on Terror, Republicans



from 8/15/06


"I don't think the thought in that London bomb plot has any bearing on our Iraq policy," Clinton said.



"The Republicans should be very careful in trying to play politics with this London airport thing, because they're going to have a hard time with the facts."



"They seem to be anxious to tie it to al Qaeda. ... If that's true, how come we got seven times as many troops in Iraq as in Afghanistan?" he said. "Why have we imperiled President [Hamid] Karzai's rule and allowed the Taliban to come back into the southern part of Afghanistan? Why was Iraq deemed to be seven times more important than finding the al Qaeda leaders for the last five years?"



Clinton on Lieberman



"His position is the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld position, which was, 'Does it matter if they have weapons? None of this matters. ... This is a big, important priority, and 9/11 gives us the way of attacking and deposing Saddam.'"



"They [Democrats] felt, frankly, let down that the U.N. inspectors were not permitted to finish, and they were worried that we were devoting attention away from Afghanistan and the hunt for [Osama] bin Laden and al Qaeda, which was a huge, immediate threat to our security in the aftermath of 9/11...



No matter how a Democratic congress member voted on Iraq, Clinton said that he or she was not responsible for the constant mistakes in judgment that had been made since the overthrow of Saddam.



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