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Clinton: Obama May Be a ‘Wuss’ on Syria

Democracy? Psh!

Urges intervention despite congress.

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What do you call a president who doesn’t drop some bombs on a crisis even when their country is against it? A “wuss,” according to Bill Clinton. At a private event with Sen. John McCain Tuesday night, the former president contrasted Obama’s lack of intervention in Syria with his own choice to intervene in Kosovo. “You just think how lame you’d be” if you let “a couple hundred thousand people die” because the House of Representatives voted against intervention. “You’d look a total total wuss, and you would be.” Clinton added that a president would look like a “total fool” if a crisis arose and he had failed to act because “80 percent” of the country was against it.

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