Slick Willie shows his true colors

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Bill blasts 'political mess' by W
By JOEL SIEGEL DAILY NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

Former President Bill Clinton double-dissed President Bush last night, saying his successor in the White House has bungled handling the U.S. economy and the crisis over Iraq.

Clinton, who drew standing ovations from a packed auditorium at the 92nd Street Y on the upper East Side, criticized the administration's economic policies as "wrongheaded" and getting worse.

He said the 2001 tax cut turned the surplus he left into a "massive deficit" that he predicted eventually will drive up interest rates and create problems paying for Medicare and Social Security.

"And now they want to give another tax cut," he told the audience of more than 1,000. "It doesn't make sense. We shouldn't do it now. It's against arithmetic."

Asked what would have happened if he was still President or if Al Gore had taken the White House, Clinton said that the economy would have slowed, but added: "Would it have been as bad as it is now? I don't think so."

On the issue of Iraq, Clinton said he supports booting dictator Saddam Hussein out of Baghdad and destroying his weapons, but he said Bush has made it more difficult to line up international cooperation for a possible war.

Right after winning UN Security Council support in November for weapons inspections, the White House "sent 150,000 troops to the gulf, which convinced everybody we weren't serious about UN inspections. That's how we got into this political mess."

The U.S. should be strengthening the UN and other "mechanisms of cooperation," Clinton said. "We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block."

Originally published on March 14, 2003
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No. Because he's left. He wants to have America brought down in stature.
 
wtf...:confuse3: Bush has us backed against a wall to the point we need to start a war to save face, the economy is in the shitter, we're at each others throats and you get mad at him for saying Bush did it wrong?
 
what the hell is wrong with that? We should have a world we would be happy to live in strong or weak.
 
Squiggy said:
Bush has us backed against a wall to the point we need to start a war to save face
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Stop it already. This is not a new war...just a reintroduction of hostilities...the UN thinks 12 years of getting spit on is okay...they need to re-read their charter
 
Gonz said:
Right after winning UN Security Council support in November for weapons inspections, the White House "sent 150,000 troops to the gulf, which convinced everybody we weren't serious about UN inspections. That's how we got into this political mess."
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That is a true statement. He has us committed to war regardless...
 
I think it's pretty shitty for an Ex-Pres to be critisizing the current prez, they should be supportive or say nothing at all. Just my opinion.
 
Bill blasts 'political mess' by W
By JOEL SIEGEL DAILY NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTHe said the 2001 tax cut turned the surplus he left into a "massive deficit" that he predicted eventually will drive up interest rates and create problems paying for Medicare and Social Security.[/size]
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Perhaps it's going to be difficult to pay for SS because SS is a fundamentally flawed and doomed system? Just maybe? I guess we could keep raising taxes to continue supporting it, until... well, until we are all paying 100% and there still isn't enough money. Seems like I remember reading about that happening somewhere.

And no, I don't think the comparison is ludicrous or extreme. Socialism has been shown to be flawed as an economic model. Why do people keep thinking that adding more socialistic properties is going in the right direction? I can't fathom the way some people's brains operate...
 
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