Reply #24: I'm not a Clinton fan, but why not?

[karynnj]

Clinton had 8 years of experience including being CiC at the time of the Balkan Wars. The only other person who had that type of experience was GHWB. It would have made sense for Bush to use both as sounding boards to his plans. (In addition to the military and foreign policy experts.) I don't know where the quote originates, but people from Dick Lugar to John Kerry have spoken of how politics ends at the water front. (Kerry mostly in the context of arguing that Bush has broken with that tradition and has not had a bipartisan foreign policy.)

There is one comment here that might explain things - she refers to Eliott Abrams (who should have gone to jail for Iran/Contra) as coming out of meeting saying they had Clinton's approval. If her comment is based ONLY on second hand information - Dooes anyone here trust Abrams? Could he have lied or even just cherry picked Clinton's responses?