Clinton defends successor's push for war...
That headline on CNN online grabbed my attention. Here's CNN reporting on Bill Clinton doing the right thing and supporting the country and it's present leader in time of crisis. Speaking up because while in office he suspected full well, just as President Bush did at the time, that in all likelihood Saddam possesed WMD or had the means to produce them quickly. For once I praise Bill Clinton's honesty for speaking up. But one has only to read a few short sentences down in the article to let CNN's true colors shine through.
CNN) -- Former President Clinton has revealed that he continues to support President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq but chastised the administration over the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.
If you read the article you'll note that Clinton did not utter these phrases as one statement. They are taken from an extensive interview in Time Magazine next week. Clinton supports the war in Iraq. Clinton abhors the prison abuse. Clinton did not link the two events. CNN does that. No, CNN could not just print the story that the mentor of the liberal Democrats supports the war in Iraq without dredging up references to the prison abuse affair and making them one and the same. A liberal leader speaking up for the war effort...let's negate that by adding that somewhere else he mentions the nasty affair at Abu Ghraib prison.
But CNN, we are probably smarter than you think we are. We're really sorry that some misguided juvenile perverts acted out at the prison....but this is what we'll remember from your article.
Clinton, who was interviewed Thursday, said he did not believe that Bush went to war in Iraq over oil or for imperialist reasons but out of a genuine belief that large quantities of weapons of mass destruction remained unaccounted for.
That headline on CNN online grabbed my attention. Here's CNN reporting on Bill Clinton doing the right thing and supporting the country and it's present leader in time of crisis. Speaking up because while in office he suspected full well, just as President Bush did at the time, that in all likelihood Saddam possesed WMD or had the means to produce them quickly. For once I praise Bill Clinton's honesty for speaking up. But one has only to read a few short sentences down in the article to let CNN's true colors shine through.
CNN) -- Former President Clinton has revealed that he continues to support President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq but chastised the administration over the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.
If you read the article you'll note that Clinton did not utter these phrases as one statement. They are taken from an extensive interview in Time Magazine next week. Clinton supports the war in Iraq. Clinton abhors the prison abuse. Clinton did not link the two events. CNN does that. No, CNN could not just print the story that the mentor of the liberal Democrats supports the war in Iraq without dredging up references to the prison abuse affair and making them one and the same. A liberal leader speaking up for the war effort...let's negate that by adding that somewhere else he mentions the nasty affair at Abu Ghraib prison.
But CNN, we are probably smarter than you think we are. We're really sorry that some misguided juvenile perverts acted out at the prison....but this is what we'll remember from your article.
Clinton, who was interviewed Thursday, said he did not believe that Bush went to war in Iraq over oil or for imperialist reasons but out of a genuine belief that large quantities of weapons of mass destruction remained unaccounted for.
