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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-03 07:25 PM
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The rest of Clinton's remarks
I'm uncertain about the move on remarks. But what about the rest of what was said:

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/22/lkl.00.html

"DOLE: But President Clinton understands better than anybody that he gets piles and piles of classified, secret, top secret information, and I don't know how many, maybe the president can tell me. I don't know how much of this goes across your desk every day. It probably shouldn't have been in the message.

But that's history. It's passed. We can't change it. And we need to focus on the real problem.

KING: What do you do, Mr. President, with what's put in front of you?

CLINTON: Well, here's what happens: every day the president gets a daily brief from the CIA. And then, if it's some important issue -- and believe me, you know, anything having to do with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons became much more important to everybody in the White House after September the 11 -- then they probably told the president, certainly Condoleezza Rice, that this is what the British intelligence thought. They maybe have a difference of opinion, but on balance, they decided they should leave that line in the speech." <snip>

It does seem to me that the two of them laid the intelligence right in the lap of George W. Bush. Ya think? Can we get this part of the story out? Can we ridicule the Republicans with 'you're using Clinton the Liar as a justification to ignore more lies. Hahahah'? Did Clinton fall on his sword?

Just questions because I'm totally baffled.


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Randomthought Donating Member (388 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-03 07:38 PM
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1. What I think
I think that President Clinton is a very smart man. He knows that the surest way to deflect the spotlight away from dim son is to publicly criticize him. If Clinton says one negative thing about shrub there will be a great wave of Clinton bashing from the RW that will totally distract everyone from Shrub's wrong doing.
And I think you are right President Clinton in his own subtle way said 'the buck stops in the oval office'.
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onecitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-03 07:51 PM
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2. No, I'm sorry.........
I still don't get it. Maybe I've been reading this stuff too long today, but from that statement, it sounds to me like he's dumping it in Condi's lap. No?
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diplomats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-23-03 08:04 PM
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3. You guys have to see Josh's Marshall's latest
More nasty is about to come out from the CIA so Nigergate is just the beginning. Plus, the 9/11 report says THERE'S NO LINK BETWEEN SADDAM AND AL-QAIDA. The report was finished last year but the WH stonewalled it because it undercut their case for war. Check it out:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com
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