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I may be dumb but at least I shouldn't be tried for treason and executed.
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 8:38 p.m. EST
Sen. Kyl: Clinton Comment Could Provoke North Korea
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said Wednesday that comments reportedly uttered by ex-President Bill Clinton falsely accusing President Bush of preparing to invade North Korea could be "very damaging" to efforts to ease tensions between Washington, D.C., and Pyongyang.
"One of the problems with [North Korean leader] Kim Jong-il is that he appears to be so paranoid that he could actually believe that's true," Kyl told WOR-NY radio host Bob Grant.
The Arizona Republican said he feared that Clinton's remark could prompt Kim to "try to do something pre-emptively. And that would be very, very bad."
In an address at the University of Florida last Thursday, Clinton criticized the White House as too quick to resort to military force. "The Bush administration believes they should maximize power at home and abroad and force the changes they want," he complained.
Clinton said that Bush's approach to crisis management boiled down to "We've got the power, we've got the juice, we shall do the job."
Then, according to a report in the University of South Florida's campus publication, The Oracle, the ex-president "criticized the Bush administration for looking for multilateral support in a possible North Korean invasion." The Oracle report was picked up by University Wire, a news service that monitors college newspapers.
Saying that this was the first he'd heard of Clinton's comments on North Korea, Sen. Kyl told Grant, "That is the kind of thing that goes beyond just criticism of the administration. It actually can affect the behavior of a belligerent foreign power to our detriment."
Repeated calls to the University of Florida's Speakers Bureau requesting a tape or a transcript of Clinton's remarks have gone unreturned.
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I may be dumb but at least I shouldn't be tried for treason and executed.
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 8:38 p.m. EST
Sen. Kyl: Clinton Comment Could Provoke North Korea
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said Wednesday that comments reportedly uttered by ex-President Bill Clinton falsely accusing President Bush of preparing to invade North Korea could be "very damaging" to efforts to ease tensions between Washington, D.C., and Pyongyang.
"One of the problems with [North Korean leader] Kim Jong-il is that he appears to be so paranoid that he could actually believe that's true," Kyl told WOR-NY radio host Bob Grant.
The Arizona Republican said he feared that Clinton's remark could prompt Kim to "try to do something pre-emptively. And that would be very, very bad."
In an address at the University of Florida last Thursday, Clinton criticized the White House as too quick to resort to military force. "The Bush administration believes they should maximize power at home and abroad and force the changes they want," he complained.
Clinton said that Bush's approach to crisis management boiled down to "We've got the power, we've got the juice, we shall do the job."
Then, according to a report in the University of South Florida's campus publication, The Oracle, the ex-president "criticized the Bush administration for looking for multilateral support in a possible North Korean invasion." The Oracle report was picked up by University Wire, a news service that monitors college newspapers.
Saying that this was the first he'd heard of Clinton's comments on North Korea, Sen. Kyl told Grant, "That is the kind of thing that goes beyond just criticism of the administration. It actually can affect the behavior of a belligerent foreign power to our detriment."
Repeated calls to the University of Florida's Speakers Bureau requesting a tape or a transcript of Clinton's remarks have gone unreturned.
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