Bu$h blew it yesterday. He shouldn't have blamed Clinton

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1597608

January 12, 2004

Monterrey, Mexico-AP -- President Bush is declining to criticize former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who claims in a new book that the White House planned to topple Saddam Hussein before Nine-Eleven.

Bush says he inherited a policy of "regime change" in Iraq from the Clinton administration and adopted it as his own. He says the administration was working out its policy when Nine-Eleven hit.



Yeah, right George. Whatever you say George. This latest scandal probably would have fallen off of Bu$h like water off a duck if he hadn't blown it big time yesterday.

Everybody knows whose plan Bu$h is implementing and that plan was flat out rejected by Clinton. But maybe that was because Clinton knew how to read and realized that it was a terrible plan. The plan Bu$h is following is the one written by Richard Perle and his Likudnik pals. The one with that is known has the Project for the New American Century. That's the Bu$h plan. The one that is still posted on the PNAC website. The one that they wrote this letter to Clinton about. Rumor has it that the Big Dog tore up this letter as soon as he finished reading it. Get your copy while they last.





http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

January 26, 1998

The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, DC

Dear Mr. President:

We are writing you because we are convinced that current American policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold War. In your upcoming State of the Union Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor.

<snip>

Given the magnitude of the threat, the current policy, which depends for its success upon the steadfastness of our coalition partners and upon the cooperation of Saddam Hussein, is dangerously inadequate. The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy.

[DebJ]

1. The USA has displayed great talents at 'regime change' without

all out invasions. I wish someone would make this comment the next time someone 'defends' PNAC et al for wanting to invade Iraq. (Of course I do not support our 'regime change' methods that are short of full invasions, either....example, Venezuela.) Hey Chavez's comments were just fantastic yesterday.. Has anyone posted that story/link? Found it on yahoo, don't know how to post it myself.

[hatrack]

2. Why not? He's blamed him for everything else for three years

His apologists and enablers have even back-dated the recession to show that it was really all Bill Clinton's fault.

Besides, if blaming his predecessor a full three years into his term keeps on making ol' Weaknstupid look weak and stupid, I'd say let George flog that dead horse every chance he gets.

[el_gato]

3. he's used this tactic before

back when he was governor he blamed the importation of nuke waste idea on ann richards saying something like "well it was the policy i inhereted" as if that means anything.

[tom_paine]

6. Such tactics are gold to a Historyless Nation like Imperial Amerika

The Imperial Subjects of Amerika are quite easy to lie to these days.

[lovedems]

4. Yeah, he inherited the recession too. He is so full of shit.

I have seen this story and the underlying theme is Clinton told PNAC no, bu$h gave them the "nod".

Clinton believed in international laws and international cooperation. He believed in human rights. Not this pre-emptive bullshit that bu$h passes off as foreign policy.

[loudnclear]

5. Problem is the neocons control our media so this critical story will not

get out UNLESS the Dem candidates get out there as part of their campaign. This is the true usefulness of nine Dem candidates...among them, the true story of what has happened in the country under the Bush administration and the PNAC influence can get out to the public.

We should be pressing the candidates to do just this. I count two who may not go along: Lieberman and Braun.