Refresh my memory, please. Didn't Clinton originally back Iraq Invasion?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

I could have sworn Bill Clinton USED TO say he supported the Iraq invasion. Today on MTP, he said that it was a mistake not to give the inspectors more time back then. (albeit he still thinks it is possible that some good will come).

Isn't this against what Hillary believes?

[stray cat]

1. He has always said we didn't give the inspectors long enough

[sasha031]

2. he said way back when

I would of let the inspectors do their job.

[moobu2]

3. I remember him saying

the UN inspectors weren’t given enough time BUT that he did support the Iraq invasion. Go figure.

[cal04]

4. a couple of articles talking with Clinton

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." Clinton, who was interviewed Thursday, said he did not believe that Bush went to war in Iraq over oil or for imperialist reasons but out of a genuine belief that large quantities of weapons of mass destruction remained unaccounted for.

Pressed on whether the Iraq war was worth the cost to the United States, Clinton said he would not have undertaken the war until after U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix "finished his job." Weapons inspectors led by Blix scoured Iraq for three and a half months before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 but left after President Bush issued an ultimatum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to leave the country. "I want it to have been worth it, even though I didn't agree with the timing of the attack," Clinton said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/06/19/clinton.iraq/index.html

Bush rushed into Iraq invasion: Clinton
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 over the intelligence agencies, but the intelligence was ambiguous on the point," Clinton said in an interview with CBC's The National.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/08/05/clinton_iraq040805.html

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. hmmm. Interesting. So maybe, just maybe

he was smart enough back then to KNOW that the whole thing was bullshit. And he is making the point clear about inspectors so that people can see the lack of logic in the whole thing. If you really cared about the wmd, that is noble, but letting the inspectors finish would have solved that question. Then he throws in the 'oil' just to give a clue on the actual motivation.
He is in essence saying, this was about oil.

[Gyre]

5. Clinton will shill

for whoever will help Hillary get the nomination in '08. Strangely, he seems to be shilling for the bushistas these days. I know for a fact that they'd love to run against Hillary because her loss would be perfectly plausible to the American public when they steal the next presidential election. Put two and two together, sheesh!

Gyre

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. but how can he remediate her erroneous position on Iraq?

[bigbrother05]

8. Refresh my memory

The first Gulf War, run by Poppy Bush, when Saddam invaded Kuwait, we must save Kuwait, no dictator has a right to invade a sovereign country. In bizarre World that we live in, it seems that junior is going directly against poppy. I think this should be a Talking Point.