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| Iraq a Quagmire, Cliton tells Ladies Home Journal |
| 2005-10-06 |
| Former President But, speaking for an interview that appears in the November issue of Ladies Home Journal, Clinton qualified his quagmire remark by saying, "It's not Vietnam." It depends on what the definition of quagmire is "The reason this is not Vietnam is that 58% of the eligible voters showed up and voted in Iraq," Clinton told the magazine. The South Vietnamese government was "never legitimate" in the eyes of the Vietnamese, he said. I know some boat people who might quibble with that The former President, who has teamed up with President Bush's father to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina and last December's Indian Ocean tsunami, said the key to success is getting the Iraqis to defend themselves against the insurgents. "Then, after we're out of the country we pull all the funding for their army and if anything bad happens we can blame it on them. Worked for us last time." "Having said that, it could go wrong," Clinton admitted. "Since the end of World War II, the only major foreign power that succeeded in putting down an insurgency was the British putting down the Malay insurgency, but the British stayed 15 years. Gee, we've been in Germany, Japan and Italy for 60 years now. And Algeria over the GSPC doesn't count. "So you can say for historical reasons, the odds are not great of our prevailing there," Clinton pointed out. "Cause us Democrats will undermine any effort that might last longer than the current administration. We'll turn tail faster than you can say Mogadishu." Clinton's spokesman told the Daily News yesterday his boss remains staunchly committed to a U.S. victory in Iraq. Can Bubba have a redo? EFL |
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