Friday, October 07, 2005

Former President Clinton at it again

Bill Clinton has a remarkable talent for being on the popular side. Back in 1998, after ordering miliarty strikes against Iraq, he said, "The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world ... The credible threat to use force, and when necessary the actuall use of force is the surest way to contain Saddam's weapons-of-massdestruction program ...."

That was then, but now Clinton is blasting the Bush administration for doing what he did and saying what he said. In an ABC news interview, Clinton said, President Bush "decided to launch this invasion virtually alone and before the U.N. inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there was any weapons of mas destruction there."

I understand that anything that comes out of President Clinton's mouth is for two reasons: 1) his ongoing legacy-rehab. project and 2) his wife's campaign for the presidency. At the moment, he deems it advantageous to attack President Bush on the war (despite the fact that Hillary Clinton voted to authorize the President's actions). But things could change in Iraq and if they do watch out because as we know, in 1998, he said he was all for it.

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