[Vision2020] CLINTON SAYS BUSH MISTAKE UNDERSTANDABLE

[Tim Lohrmann]

Tom,
  Fine, but why do you think the guy who is arguably
still(as its most famous and recognizable figure) the
leader of the Demo party speaking out now to excuse
this Bushian behavior?
   TL
--- Thomas Hansen <tomh@uidaho.edu> wrote:
> Mr. Lohrmann -
> 
> I am not a "Clintonista".  I support who I believe
> to be the best candidate.
> I am not a Democrat.  I consider myself to be an
> independent.  I do not fall
> into party lines.
> 
> What you are addressing below is a "people" thing. 
> President Bush lied (or,
> at minimum, misled) the American people.  It is that
> simple.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Lohrmann [mailto:timlohr@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:41 AM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] CLINTON SAYS BUSH MISTAKE
> UNDERSTANDABLE
> 
> 
> Visionaries,
>    How do all you loyal Democrat/Clintonistas
> explain
> ole Bill's taking up for Dub?
>    Think he's trying to embarrass some of the
> Democrat
> Pres. candidates he doesn't like? Why would he do
> that? Is he trying to make sure that W is re-elected
> so his wife won't have a sittind Democrat obstacle
> when she runs in '08?
>    How do you analyze?
>    TL
> 
> CLINTON SAYS BUSH'S URANIUM MISTAKE IS
> UNDERSTANDABLE
> Copyright İ 2003 Nando Media
> Copyright İ 2003 AP Online 
> 
> The Associated Press
> WASHINGTON (July 22, 7:07 p.m. ADT) - President
> Bush's
> erroneous reference to an Iraqi-Africa uranium link
> was understandable, former President Clinton said
> Tuesday, in part because Saddam Hussein's regime had
> not accounted for some weapons by the time Clinton
> ended his term in 2001.
> Clinton's comments reinforce one of the pillars of
> Bush's defense of the war in Iraq - that his
> Democratic predecessor was never satisfied that
> Saddam
> had rid himself of weapons of mass destruction.
> 
> "When I left office, there was a substantial amount
> of
> biological and chemical material unaccounted for,"
> Clinton said on CNN's "Larry King Live."
> 
> Clinton said he never found out whether a
> U.S.-British
> bombing campaign he ordered in 1998 ended Saddam's
> capability of producing chemical and biological
> weapons. "We might have gotten it all, we might have
> gotten half of it, we might have gotten none of it,"
> he said.
> 
> In his State of the Union speech in February
> justifying the planned war in Iraq, Bush referred to
> British intelligence reports that Saddam had tried
> to
> purchase uranium for nuclear weapons production. His
> administration says it now believes those reports
> were
> based in part on forged documents.
> 
> Clinton confined his remarks to biological and
> chemical weapons, and did not say whether he would
> consider credible any report that Saddam had wanted
> to
> build a nuclear weapons program.
> 
> Nonetheless, he suggested that Bush's mistake was
> par
> for the course - and that it was time to move on now
> that Bush had acknowledged the error.
> 
> "You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are
> president," he said. "I mean, you can't make as many
> calls as you have to without messing up once in a
> while. The thing we ought to be focused on is what
> is
> the right thing to do now."
> 
> Clinton said ending tensions in Iraq should be the
> priority now - another echo of the current White
> House's talking points. "We should be pulling for
> America on this. We should be pulling for the people
> of Iraq."
> 
> Clinton made his remarks as a call-in guest on a
> program observing the 80th birthday of Bob Dole, his
> rival for the White House in 1996. 
> 
> 
> 
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