Wow, the insane amount of bullshit this guy has coming out of him amazes me to this day.
During a campaign swing for his wife, former President Bill Clinton said flatly yesterday that he opposed the war in Iraq “from the beginning” — a statement that is more absolute than his comments before the invasion in March 2003.
Before the invasion, Mr. Clinton did not precisely declare that he opposed the war. A week before military action began, however, he did say that he preferred to give weapons inspections more time and that an invasion was not necessary to topple Saddam Hussein.
At the same time, he also spoke supportively about the 2002 Senate resolution that authorized military action against Iraq.
Advisers to Mr. Clinton said yesterday that he did oppose the war, but that it would have been inappropriate at the time for him, a former president, to oppose — in a direct, full-throated manner — the sitting president’s military decision.
Mr. Clinton has said several times since the war began that he would not have attacked Iraq in the manner that President Bush had done. As early as June 2004, he said, “I would not have done it until after Hans Blix finished the job,” referring to the weapons inspections there before the war.
Well unfortunately for Bill, we have the Internet, where every word you say is documented. So, without further ado, let's take a look at Bill's words:
That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for. So I thought the President had an absolute responsibility to go to the U.N. and say, "Look, guys, after 9/11, you have got to demand that Saddam Hussein lets us finish the inspection process." You couldn't responsibly ignore [the possibility that] a tyrant had these stocks. I never really thought he'd [use them]. What I was far more worried about was that he'd sell this stuff or give it away.
On whether the Iraq war was worth the costs
It's a judgment that no one can make definitively yet. I would not have done it until after Hans Blix finished his job. Having said that, over 600 of our people have died since the conflict was over.
So 600 people dead and yet, Bill does nothing to counter Saddam.
Bill had no problem going to war with Saddam the second time around simply because he wasn't the one who was ultimately responsible for it.
If the war went buttery smooth, he would claim he supported it all the way.
However, now that it's fashionable to oppose the war, he's got the nerve to say that he opposed it from the beginning. There's not ONE shred of evidence to support that. Not one quote, not one interview, nothing.
Even ABC News is seeing through his line of bullshit:
But then Bill makes another statement:
Mr. Clinton’s remark yesterday came in the context of opposition to Republican-backed tax cuts for wealthy Americans like himself, and how that loss of revenue affected financing for the military.
“Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning, I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers,” Mr. Clinton said.
Bill, you had 8 years in the White House to support the soldiers and what did you do in that time? You gutted the military left and right. You closed bases that put ancillary families out of work, decimated local economies, and made us more vulnerable to attack.
You had your chance Bill, and you screwed this country royally with your complete impotence to the threats from Saddam and Osama, and your slicing military budgets to the bone.
Save the lies for someone who had zero brain activity who might fall for it, there are those of us who know the truth and will gladly expose you and Hillary for it.
Travis
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