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[fortdixlover]

NEW YORK (June 20) - Terrorism festering in Iraq could make the lives of Iraqis worse than they had been under Saddam Hussein, former President Bill Clinton said in a "60 Minutes" interview to be broadcast Sunday.

Well, Billy Boy, guess hundreds of thousands of people "disappeared" into mass graves after the tortures outlined previously in Iraq's concentration camp gulags is worse than terrorism. I guess the Israelis then have it worse in Israel than they did in Auschwitz due to the terrorists. Maybe they should move back to the camps. Duh....

Don't you just LOVE the moral jugments of presidents who received blowjobs in the Oval Office "Because they could" ?????

Asked whether he agrees with President Bush that removing Saddam from power has made the world safer from terrorism, Clinton said, "I think the Iraqis are better off with Saddam gone, if they can have a stable government.

"There have been more terrorists move into Iraq in the aftermath of the conflict. I still believe, as I always have, that the biggest terrorist threat by far is al-Qaida and the al-Qaida network," Clinton said in the CBS interview.

Clinton also said it was a mistake for the Bush administration to invade Iraq before United Nations weapons inspectors finished their work.

U.N. inspectors were pulled from Iraq just before the war began in March 2003, as senior U.S. officials offered assurances Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. Months later, retired chief U.S. weapons inspector David Kay concluded Saddam did not have stockpiles of forbidden weapons, although he was conducting programs related to producing such weapons.

In an interview to be published in Time magazine, Clinton said that even though he didn't agree with the timing of the attack, he wants the Iraq invasion "to have been worth it."

"I think if you have a pluralistic, secure, stable Iraq, the people of Iraq will be better off, and it might help the process of internal reform in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere," Clinton said.

Clinton gave the interviews in advance of Tuesday's release of his memoir, "My Life."

[sparky]

Ironic that only 2% of Iraqis responded that they consider the United States to be "liberators."

We must be doing something wrong.

[Scott]

More poll results from Iraq, via Reuters: www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5450158

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[sparky]

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[sparky]

As for reading a little bit of history, I was going to ask the same of you. Presumably, we had to drop the two bombs in Japan because so many Japanese considered Hirohito an avatar and until he surrendered, the invasion would have been very difficult.

Nobody said we'd be greeted as liberators in Japan or Germany. Can't say the same thing about Iraq.

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[Scott]

With all due respect,

the estimate I have read time and time again is 1,000,000 American casualties.

I have not yet found an historian who was willing to estimate the probable Japanese casualties resulting from an Allied invasion of the home islands of Japan.

Speculation exists, but nothing is as low as the catastrophic casualties that resulted from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Needless to say, based on previous Pacific War battles, Japanes casualties would have exceeded Allied casualties by a factor of (oh, about) ten. More or less.

Truman's decision, whether humanitarian or not, saved an awful lot of American lives. In addition, it also saved an even more awful lot of Japanese lives.

They aren't grateful for that. That's okay. They're alive to be ungrateful. I'll be satisfied with that, if I may.
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[mtboone]

Why do you all bother with Sparky, he does not spark debate, he justs puts the fire under your burners and you react? Ignore the person and he will fade away. This site is about what jfk did and not Bush. Democrats always try to bring Bush into the mixture, we Swift Boat Sailors are against kerry, have him taken off the democrats agenda and we will shut up. Sparky will not because he is for the Traitor pure and simple. And if you believe this guy is from Texas, I want to sell you land out in California where this fruit and nut is from, IMHO. Go to the DU site and you cannot post, they just want to play with their selfs on that site, how informative and interactive.

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[nakona]

Sparky -

Actually, we did get greeted as liberators when we went in, and are still looked at that way by many Iraqis.
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[fortdixlover]

[wshhml]

Think of all the torture and murder that happened in Iraq prior to the war and removal of the regime. Yes, they are ratcheting it up. But the Saddam regime had a hold of the nation's finances to finance it's evil intentions. I'm sick of people acting as if this administration just fabricated the WMD threat with Iraq. All of the world's intelligence services said what a threat Iraq was with WMD. We have taken away the regime that caused so much trouble. Saddam Hussein had made numerous threats and calls for America's destruction during the last decade. They celebrated 9/11. Iraq was a threat. We need to get a government we can trust that is not going to be the threat that regime was and make a change to that region. This is hard, deadly work. After 9/11 it should be evident to everyone what we are in for, but people are unfortunately forgetting. 9/11 deals with the Middle East and the evil that comes from the region. We need to clean up for any chance whatsoever. I am not happy with the media in encouraging our vicious enemies and creating panic. And here we have a disgraceful former president attempting to undermine it too. They just do not stop and Clinton is in no position to talk since he allowed al Qaeda to continue on and DID NOTHING.