he was speaking - Toronto Ontario CANADA. Look who was reporting on
the event - THE CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION.
Democratic attack machine indeed. You really need to read the article
first and frothing at the mouth before responding.
larry
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:18:54 -0500, Andy Ousterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Democratic attack machine at work. And this is not a surprise, since he would
> be to busy getting head to use his head.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:25 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: CBC News: Bush rushed into Iraq invasion: Clinton
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/08/05/clinton_iraq040805
>
> Bush rushed into Iraq invasion: Clinton
> Last Updated Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:11:24
>
> TORONTO - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton said Thursday he would
> have taken the word of United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix over
> U.S. intelligence reports about evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass
> destruction.
>
> "It's not a question of believing [Blix] over the intelligence
> agencies, but the intelligence was ambiguous on the point," Clinton
> said in an interview with CBC's The National.
>
> Blix led the UN weapons inspections in the months leading up to the
> U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
>
> His teams found little to support the pre-war assertions by the United
> States that Saddam Hussein's regime was actively developing and
> stockpiling chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
>
> "I certainly would have believed it enough to put [the war] off and
> try to build more support," said Clinton, referring to building a
> consensus among the international community before invading Iraq.
>
> "I mean, what was the hurry?" asked Clinton, who was in Toronto to
> sign copies of his best-selling memoir My Life.
>
> Recently, a U.S. Senate committee report criticized pre-war
> intelligence reports claiming Iraq possessed weapons of mass
> destruction for being wrong and overstated.
>
> Clinton criticized the Bush administration for rushing into war with
> Iraq, saying the country posed a lesser threat to the U.S. compared
> with four other international hotspots.
>
> He accused the Bush administration of putting too much focus on Iraq,
> saying it diverted resources from the top threat to the U.S.: al-Qaeda
> and its leader Osama bin Laden.
>
> As an example, he spoke about the recent terror alert indicating a
> possible threat, based in part on four-year-old intelligence, to five
> financial institutions in the U.S.
>
> "Who's the threat from? Iraq? Saddam Hussein? No, from bin Laden and
> al-Qaeda," he said, adding that the U.S. only learned of the threat
> from Pakistani intelligence.
>
> "Why did we put our number 1 security threat in the hands of the
> Pakistanis with us playing a supporting role, and put all of our
> military resources in Iraq, which I think at best was our number 5
> security threat?
>
> "How did we get to the point where we got 130,000 troops in Iraq and
> 15,000 in Afghanistan?"
>
> Clinton said the absence of a peace process in the Middle East, the
> conflict between India and Pakistan and their ties to the Taliban, and
> North Korea and its nuclear program all posed greater threats than
> Iraq.
>
> Written by CBC News Online staff
>
> Copyright � 2004 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - All Rights Reserved
>
>
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