[Vision2020] CLINTON SAYS BUSH MISTAKE UNDERSTANDABLE

[Carl Westberg]

Bill Clinton made the comment during an 80th birthday celebration for his 
old rival Bob Dole.  It may well have been made in the spirit of "reaching 
out".  Are all Democrats or independents who voted for Bill Clinton 
"Clintonistas"?  I voted for him twice, and also disagreed with some of his 
actions while in the White House.  I disagree with his defense of Bush now.  
But, as the quote goes, "I don't belong to any organized party, I'm a 
Democrat."  To suggest that we all somehow march in lockstep with one 
another is like saying that all conservatives adhere to the rantings of Ann 
Coulter.                                                                     
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                          Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: Tim Lohrmann <timlohr@yahoo.com>
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] CLINTON SAYS BUSH MISTAKE UNDERSTANDABLE
>Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:41:11 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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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