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The "blame Clinton" refrain never gets old
02.11.04 (8:32 pm)   [edit]
Not surprisingly, Republican officials are now blaming Bill Clinton for the Intelligence failure that has placed the Bush Administration under scrutiny.

[i]WASHINGTON - In a sign of how Republicans may try to quell criticism of prewar intelligence in Iraq, the head of the House Intelligence Committee tried Wednesday to direct blame to the Clinton administration.

Rep. Porter J. Goss, R-Fla., said he heard a 1998 speech in which then-President Clinton warned that something must be done about Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction.

"Unfortunately, he did not complete that task before his term expired," Goss said at a Capitol Hill press conference.[/i] [url=http://story.news.yahoo.com/n...]Read more[/url]

So, apparently it was Bill Clinton's fault that... wait, I'm not even sure what it is they're blaming Clinton for exactly. Either it's his fault that the intelligence was wrong (the article goes on to claim that Clinton cut funding to Intel., then counters that the first President Bush actually was the one to cut the funding), or it's Clinton's fault that the war in Iraq didn't occur during his administration rather than Bush's. It seems a bit ridiculous to blame Clinton for not going to war when the war waged by Bush was based on false intelligence of Saddam's supposed WMD. And it seems like a feeble attempt to divert attention from the Bush Administration by blaming the Intelligence failure on Clinton. I think it would make more sense for the Bush Administration to accept some responsibility. No one would argue that Saddam deserved to stay in power, but there was no urgency to the war, and that is the controversy. It wouldn't be a very popular move to wage a war when it isn't necessary- and that is precisely what happened in Iraq. The WMD claim was the only way to justify the necessity of the war, and since these claims seem to have been false, we need an explanation. Blaming the previous Administration or refusing to take the blame at all by saying others believed it too just won't suffice. Bush's credibility is at stake, both at home and abroad. Of course, he doesn't seem concerned- he can always blame Clinton or make excuses rather than giving an explanation. Who needs responsibility and accountability when you can just blame Clinton?
 


posted by: Nivek (reply)
post date: 02.11.04 (8:59 pm)

There can be no logical purpose for blaming Clinton. America loves Bill Clinton! Any notion from whomever in the Bush administration to lay blame would be futile. In fact, Clinton said that there was good intel that Saddam had the WMDs and was a threat, and that "someone" should do something about it. He had the intel! Clinton was in bed with the UN, the EU, and we all know about communist China; there was no way he could do anything, well, except for wagging the dog. But, as always in politics, it gives and it takes. Like the dems attacking Bush and the AWOL issue. I don't recall the dems pursuing Clinton about his being in Moscow protesting the Vietnam war. It would serve Bush well to get some Botox treatments, start lifting weights for that "wide shoulder" look, and bite his bottom lip more often. That is, if he wants to win...



posted by: Nivek (reply)
post date: 02.11.04 (10:06 pm)

"Bush's credibility is at stake, both at home and abroad." Bush has no credibility abroad...



posted by: DragonBait22 (reply)
post date: 02.12.04 (8:49 pm)

Reply to: Nivek
Haha, maybe you should be Bush's campaign advisor.



posted by: DragonBait22 (reply)
post date: 02.12.04 (8:50 pm)

Reply to: Nivek
True, Bush has no credibility abroad, and little at home. I meant it more to say that with Bush losing credibility abroad, America loses credibility.



posted by: Gonzosc1 (reply)
post date: 02.14.04 (9:52 am)

To nivek;
there is logic in it, just not your logic.
just as each adminastration blames the one of the prior for the problems in the country. The logic of it is not the "blame", its the "misdirection" that is created from the state of blame. blame has nothing to do with it, it a means to an end.
the end being that the country isn't looking at me now, I've misdirected them to something else. blame is nothing more then a tool, no different then a screwdriver. I find it funny that most people get suck into this misdirection.
every elected leader has used this tactic. and reguardless of who wins an election the country pays for it.
We sit around and talk about the drama because the media is sucked into it too, meanwhile the left, the right and the middle have a free ticket to do anything they please because we are all focused on who got a blowjob, who's intelligence reports was bad, who did this, who did that.
I guess my next question would be why is this happening so much?
I think its rather simple really. because it works,,,,,,,,,,,, we can only assign true blame to ourselfs.
we the people,,, we give it power by letting it come to the front of the line when it should be at the end.
it should be ignored by anyone who claims to be a person of this country. each time we have a conversation about the blame game or any game is another time we all have ignored our country's needs.
I realize all this is a hardline statement. but if we could just peel away the human factor at election time we might really get something done. the human factor being we humans LOVE drama and mud slinging. it gives us a way to get away from the truth, but in the end it only serves as our own demise.

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