Travis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:32 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] W gloats; Clinton cheerleads
> [Half a lung kaput and a heart encrusted with scar tissue, Clinton *still*
> won't shut his ever-jiving mouth.]
>
> NEWS ANALYSIS
>
> For Bush, No Boasts, but a Taste of Vindication
>
> By TODD S. PURDUM
>
> WASHINGTON, March 8 - He has gone out of his way not to crow, or even to
> take direct credit. But not quite two years after he began the invasion
> that toppled Saddam Hussein, and not quite two months after a second
> inaugural address in which he spoke of "ending tyranny," President Bush
> seems entitled to claim as he did on Tuesday that a "thaw has begun" in
> the broader Middle East. ...
>
> His two predecessors in the Oval Office, his father and Bill Clinton, both
> spoke of the latest signs of progress in an appearance at the White House.
> The first President Bush was restrained, pronouncing himself "very
> pleased," but cautioning that much work remained to be done.
>
> Mr. Clinton was more ebullient, noting that the Iraqi elections "went
> better than anyone could have imagined." In Lebanon, he said, "the Syrians
> are going to have to get out of there and give the Lebanese their country
> back, and I think the fact that the Lebanese are in the street demanding
> it is wonderful."
>
> Asked about huge demonstrations on Tuesday, sponsored by Hezbollah, that
> demanded just the opposite, Mr. Clinton said: "I find it inconceivable
> that most Lebanese wouldn't like it if they had their country back. You
> know, they want their country back and they ought to get it." ...
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/international/middleeast/09assess.html?hp&ex=1110344400&en=e7de1b857c9d8e80&ei=5094&partner=homepage>
>
> Carl
>
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