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Bill Clinton, JD Biography
Title:	42nd President of the United States
Position:	Now Con to the question "Should the US Have Attacked Iraq?"
Reasoning:	"Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning, I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers." "Bill Clinton Tells Iowans He Opposed Iraq from Start," www.washingtonpost.com, Nov. 28, 2007 [Editor's Note: Prior to Bill Clinton's Nov. 28, 2007 Con position statement made above, his position was Pro the US attack on Iraq as indicated in his June 28, 2004 statement below.] "You know, I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq, even though I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over... After 9/11, let's be fair here, if you had been President, you'd think, Well, this fellow bin Laden just turned these three airplanes full of fuel into weapons of mass destruction, right? Arguably they were super-powerful chemical weapons. Think about it that way. So, you're sitting there as President, you're reeling in the aftermath of this, so, yeah, you want to go get bin Laden and do Afghanistan and all that. But you also have to say, Well, my first responsibility now is to try everything possible to make sure that this terrorist network and other terrorist networks cannot reach chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material. I've got to do that... That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for." "His Side of the Story," TIME magazine, June 28, 2004
Theoretical Expertise Ranking:	Experts Individuals with PhD's, JD's, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to the US - Iraq conflict. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to the US - Iraq conflict.
Involvement and Affiliations:	Founder, William J. Clinton Foundation Member, Advisory Board, International Aids Trust UN Special Envoy to Haiti, 2009 UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, 2005-2007 Co-founder Scholarship Fund (with US Senator Bob Dole), Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund, 2001 42nd President of the United States, 1993-2001 Governor of Arkansas, 1979-1981, 1983-1992 Former Chair, Democratic Leadership Council, 1990 Attorney General for Arkansas, 1976-1978 Former Law Professor, University of Arkansas, 1973-1976 Helped to manage presidential candidate George McGovern's Texas campaign, 1972
Education:	JD, Yale University, 1973 Oxford University, 1968-1972 (Rhodes Scholarship) BSFS, Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1968
Other:	Legal name is William Jefferson Clinton Born on Aug. 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas

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