Clinton Blasts President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and the Growing Federal Deficit

On Iraq . . .
“Breaking with tradition under which US presidents mute criticisms of their successors, Clinton said the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq “virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction.”

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On evacuating the poor before Katrina . . .

“When James Lee Witt ran FEMA, because he had been both a local official and a federal official, he was always there early, and we always thought about that,” Clinton said, referring to FEMA’s head during his 1993-2001 presidency.

“But both of us came out of environments with a disproportionate number of poor people.”

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