Reply #31: I guess it depends on which quotes you look at. [View All]

[JTFrog]

Speech: Remarks at Tougaloo College Commencement

May 18, 2003
Jackson, MS

And I don’t think that makes America a very good model for rest of the world. We’ve got all these people putting their money overseas, avoiding basic income taxes, not paying, so we don’t have enough money for student loans, and scholarships, and things of that kind, and we’re going to quit looking into that and go bust these working people because one of them might have taken a dime he or she wasn’t entitled to. I don’t get it. And I don’t think its right. I supported the President when he asked the Congress for authority to stand up against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I have strongly supported the efforts in Afghanistan and I would be happy if they would send more troops there because that’s where the real problem is. But we cannot forever be strong abroad unless we’re getting better at home. Forming a more perfect union. There are things you’re supposed to do.

http://www.clintonfoundation.org/051803-sp-cf-gn-usa-sp-remarks-at-tougaloo-college-commencement.htm

September 12, 2002 (David Letterman Show):

Letterman asked, "Are we going into Iraq? Should we go into Iraq? I'd like to go in. I'd like to get the guy. I don't like the way the guy looks."

"He is a threat. He's a murderer and a thug," said Mr. Clinton. "There's no doubt we can do this. We're stronger; he's weaker. You're looking at a couple weeks of bombing and then I'd be astonished if this campaign took more than a week. Astonished."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/12/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main521789.shtml

June 23, 2004 (CNN):

"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."

"That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for."

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

*edit to add the inevitably requested links.