Clinton Says U.S. Should Not Dominate Iraq

[Khephra]

Clinton Says U.S. Should Not Dominate Iraq
Sun September 21, 2003 08:19 AM ET

DUBAI (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Sunday that the United States should not try to dominate Iraq and needed to give the United Nations a greater role in restoring security to the war-torn country.

"We should play a role and spend a lot of money there, but we shouldn't dominate," Clinton said during a brief visit to the United Arab Emirates.

"What we need is for the U.N. to nominally supervise the security situation and NATO to be used as an instrument," he said during a question-and-answer session at the American University of Dubai, where he launched a scholarship program.

"This will enable us to spread both the responsibility and the risks and make it look less like an occupation," he added.

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[Voltaire99]

1. It's the illegal, murderous war, stupid

"Spend a lot of money"? What we need to do is get out, and get out now.

I'm sorry--but not surprised--to see Clinton taking this position. The man who could send the gloating Albright out to say that the death of over half a million Iraqi children from sanctions was acceptable is not a man to be very troubled by the ongoing ruin of Iraq.

[Karenina]

2. Heh?

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[Dr Fate]

3. Your strategy reminds me of what Republicans did in Afghanistan...

...Clinton wants the U.N. to basically take over- I agree...

Since Bush went against the wishes of the entire world and DESTABILIZED the region by causng an emense power vaccum, we have to "spend a lot of money there" in order to keep it from turning into another Afghanistan (breeding ground for REAL terrorists(as opposed to Bush/media fake terror...

I disagree that we should abandon the innocent people in Iraq- I also disagree with your suggestion that we should IGNORE the potential/actual terror threat in Iraq, caused by Bush/media's REFUSAL to let the UN handle this...

Whether Saddam was "bad" for Iraq or potentially "bad" for U.S. security was NEVER the question for me- the question was do we "go it alone"(Bush/media plan), or through the UN(Democrats and rest of the world's plan)?

Clearly Clinton's position reflects the more correct approach, while Bush/media's approach has been an utter FAILURE and DISASTER.

Sorry, but you are not going to blame Bush's FAILURE in the war on terror on Clinton, a man who understands terrorism and world dynamics...