Right Voices

Much ado about his latest statement in which he says that he opposed the war in Iraq:

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.

That is how I assumed his stance to be and I gave him props for not being an ass. It would have served no useful purpose for him to pull a Carter, and bad mouth the sitting POTUS, just as we were sending the troops in. He didn’t stay quite for long, as he took advantage when the chips were down and things were not going great in Iraq, but that’s Bubba.

Don Surber pointout this 2004 CNN article:

Former President Clinton has revealed that he continues to support President Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq but chastised the administration over the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.

“I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq, even though I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over,” Clinton said in a Time magazine interview that will hit newsstands Monday, a day before the publication of his book “My Life.”

Don states his feelings and I happen to agree:

My point is not about Hillary trying to renege on her authorization of this war. My point is merely that under another President Clinton we will get more lies by any administration since Josef Stalin passed away.

Had enough?

I think this country can come up with a better field of candidates than Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton..enoughis enough.

Oliver Willis(One of Clinton’s biggest supporters):

That’s just not true. I don’t think its right to put President Clinton in the role of war supporter, but if he was against the war only he and Sen. Clinton know for sure because he didn’t say a thing about it. Maybe, as the article goes on, he was silent due to presidential protocol or to not overshadow Sen. Clinton’s vote and subsequent statements, but President Clinton was noticeably silent as the nation went to war in 2003.

You can easily compare his silence to that of his vice-president, Al Gore, who was vocally and clearly opposed to the war from day one. I wondered at the time – and I still do – why President Clinton sat on his hands when he easily would have had a national platform to nullify Bush’s war policy.

There is no public record of any sort to support President Clinton’s assertion that he “opposed Iraq from the beginning”. That just didn’t happen.

That is a great comparison and Oliver doesn’t mince his words. Let me remind you that there are only 43 people that have held the job that Bush and Clinton do/did…Even fewer have called our military to action. Gore was not one of them.

Bill Clinton did not verbally come out in support of the war, but his silence is being miscontrued as support. If in fact he wanted to support the POTUS, he shouldn’t have made his statements at later dates that did make the news.

My take is that the Clintons are a calculating couple. When Bill’s back was against the wall about Osama and the facts that prove he did nothing to stop the terrorist attacks, out comes his wagging finger and what you can expect to be a lie.. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”. Hillary’s Senate race was pulled from the RFK files…get a seat somewhere so that you can run for the office of President of the United States..

Ed has a really good take on the subject:

The pattern here is really unmistakable. In the early days of the war, Bill had no problem climbing onto the Bush bandwagon, claiming support for the war. Now that it has proven as unpopular as it is, Bill wants to rewrite history and claim that he always opposed it, despite his record of public support. He will say anything to match up with the public sentiment of the moment, showing himself as a man completely without reliable principles.

Amen Ed!