Amazing video of Cleland and Clark predicting exactly what HAS happened in Iraq

[Quixote1818]

Senate Armed Services Sept 23, 2002

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V39mRNEO0Pw&mode=related&search=

[Quixote1818]

1. Cleland: "The Sunni's, Shiites and Kurds will go after one another like Banshee chickens!"

Boy did that line peg the current situation!

[sandnsea]

2. Cleland voted yes on the IWR

Probably at Clark's recommendation that we pass a resolution to force the UN to disarm Iraq and get inspectors back in there.

[Tatiana]

3. I think, simply put, Cleland believed the Bush administration. On Cleland's vote for IWR:

During his six years as a United States senator from the conservative state of Georgia, Max Cleland was known as a moderate Democrat. He drew the wrath of liberals in 2001 when he broke ranks with Democrats and voted for President Bush's tax cuts, and last year he backed the resolution authorizing Bush to wage war with Iraq (though on that vote, at least, he was joined by some liberals).

Today, though, Cleland has emerged as one of the president's harshest critics, especially about the war he voted to authorize. Today, he says, it's a move he deeply regrets, as he scans the headlines from Baghdad. "I feel like I have been duped, I don't mind telling you," Cleland admits. "Everybody in the administration was selling this used car. The problem is all the wheels have fallen off the car and we've got a lemon."

Now, outspoken and blunt, he's furious about the White House's handling of the war with Iraq, which he calls a disastrous "war of choice." And he mocks the administration's claims that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were allies. "They had a plan to go to war, and when 9/11 happened that's what they did; they went to war."

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/11/21/cleland/index.html

I do give him credit for admitting his mistake way back in 2003 when opposing Bush and the war wasn't quite fashionable.

[sandnsea]

5. Hey I Love Max

Just making sure to keep the facts straight is all.

[Boo Boo]

4. Support for Bush in Cleland's State was huge. His yes vote was a done deal. /nt