Bill Clinton: Iraq Debate

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( Is it me or should it be, shouldn't spurn insults)
Clinton: Iraq Debate Should Spurn Insults

Former President Clinton said Friday that the debate between Republicans and Democrats about the Iraq war should go on - without personal attacks. ``I think we should be able to talk about this in a mature way,'' Clinton said after a speech in Little Rock marking the first anniversary of the opening of his presidential library. ``I want to depersonalize the debate so we can have the debate and listen to one another.''

Clinton referred to Rep. John Murtha, a hawkish Pennsylvania Democrat with close military ties who on Wednesday called for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Republicans chastised Murtha for advocating what they called a strategy of surrender and abandonment. The White House fired off a statement comparing the combat-decorated Vietnam veteran to war critic-movie producer Michael Moore.
``He shouldn't be attacked,'' Clinton said. ``He didn't attack the president, the vice president.''

Political adversaries should stop demonizing each other, he said.
This personal venom that has gotten into our public life is bad for us and it isn't real,'' Clinton said. ``No three-dimensional human deserves to be turned into a two-dimensional cartoon.''

The former president said he has no doubt the Bush administration believes its troop deployment decisions in Iraq are right. But, he added: ``The only thing that really matters is, is it good for us? Is it good for Iraq? Is it good for the world?'' During his speech to the Rotary Club of Little Rock, Clinton sang the praises of his presidential library, which has attracted nearly a half million visitors since it opened a year ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5425256,00.html

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. god, i miss a real president.....

who can put together complex ideas, and make even the common man understand ...........:cry:

[awoke_in_2003]

2. No kidding...

could you imagine shrub handling this sentence:

``No three-dimensional human deserves to be turned into a two-dimensional cartoon"?

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. not even sober!

LOL

[slay]

4. I know - is sad to see the nose dive this country has taken since Clinton

Clinton who erased the deficit. Clinton who had most of the country feeling good about the future. That's what makes the Bush disaster even worse - we go from such a high to such a low. I wonder if this is what it felt like to go from Kennedy to Nixon in just a few years? :(

[DeadManInc]

5. I bet even he gets sick at

his stomach seeing shrub run his piehole on the tube.

[UpInArms]

6. wish that were in the US press - but ....

this presstitutes here just can't do that - it would reflect oh so badly on the dimson.

as to the use of the word "spurn" - it was used correctly:

spurn (spûrn)

v., spurned, spurn·ing, spurns.

v.tr.

To reject disdainfully or contemptuously; scorn. See synonyms at refuse1.
To kick at or tread on disdainfully.

v.intr.

To reject something contemptuously.

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7. I tell 'ya, junior is not gonna like this!

Of course since junior has great debating skills, one can expect a real breath taking dual between junior and Bill Clinton.

I can't wait!

[devinsgram]

8. Having a responsible debate would be fine

if the republicans could act in a responsible mature way. The only problem is they cannot have a debate without slinging mud.