Fitzwater: Bush Admin. Mishandled WMD Case (Worked for Reagan and Bush1)

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20040214/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_fitzwater

LAWRENCE, Kan. - A former reporter who served as press secretary to two presidents said Friday that the Bush administration is paying the price for its handling of intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (news - web sites).

Marlin Fitzwater, who worked for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, said the current president should have been more careful with how he used information about Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s weapons program.


"He got caught up in arguments he didn't need to make," said Fitzwater, who spoke at the University of Kansas campus where he received an award.


Fitzwater also said that, with the advent of 24-hour television news networks and countless Internet news sites, the media is in the midst of its most dynamic change in the last half-century.

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[zbdent]

1. It will be okay when they decide that, by the same logic, Clinton

"mishandled" Somalia and the Khobar towers, and he's let off the hook.

Point out that Clinton didn't "mishandle" Iraq, because he never invaded Iraq.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Clinton didn't sent the troops to Somalia either. Old man Bush did

http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-020.html

<snip>The Bush administration's decision to send nearly 30,000 U.S. troops to Somalia is likely to have far-reaching and potentially dangerous implications for the United States and the international community. Not only does the intervention itself entail significant risks, but it sets a precedent for similar humanitarian military crusades--either unilateral or under the banner of the United Nations--elsewhere in an increasingly turbulent world. The American people would be wise to reject the embryonic doctrine of humanitarian intervention as the new U.S. mission in the post-Cold War era. Although such a mission undoubtedly appeals to those who have an insatiable desire to correct all the ills of the planet and the hubris to assume that American power can achieve that utopian objective, it would inevitably entangle the United States in an array of bloody conflicts that have no relevance whatsoever to America's security interests.

A Limited Mission in Somalia?

In his December 4, 1992, address to the nation officially announcing Operation Restore Hope, President Bush stressed both the humanitarian purpose and the limited nature of the U.S. military intervention in Somalia:

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[JNelson6563]

3. Bush is screwed

We Dems would have to screw up in monumental ways to lose this next election. It's getting to be common knowledge that they lied to go to war and the masses grow angry.

Julie