This Week with Christiane Amanpour - October 23, 2011

October 23, 2011
Guests:
Hillary Clinton (Sec. of State)
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
Martha Raddatz
Richard Stengel
Robert Kagan
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Amanpour: wow first today Tunisia votes
for the first time and an autopsy has Qaddafi
has confirmed is still dead

Amanpour: Are you in Uz-Beki-beki-stan?

Clinton: LOL I love Herman Cain

Amanpour: What was your gut reaction
to seeing Qaddafi’s guts?

Clinton: I thought - wow Libya deserves
to have their oil managed by a
freedom-loving country like the U.S.

Amanpour: should Qaddafi have had a
fair trial before being shot?

Clinton: absolutely - war crimes should
never be tolerated because above
we must have the rule of law for all people

Amanpour: even for Dick Cheney

Clinton: I said for all people

Amanpour: what about the Pan Am bomber?

Clinton: I heard they canceled that tv show

Amanpour: no the terrorist

Clinton: oh yeah that was bad too

Amanpour: should we really pull all troops
out of Iraq?

Clinton: we should leave unless they ask
us to stay then we should never leave

Amanpour: what about Afghanistan and
Pakistan is the Taliban going to abuse
women after we leave?

Clinton: anyone we negotiate with must
renounce violence and respect the rights
of ethnic minorities and women

Amanpour: that rules out the Republicans

Clinton: ha

Amanpour: is there going to be a terrorist
attack in Nairobi?

Clinton: who knows all those Kenyans
are scary

Amanpour: thanks for coming Hillary

[ break ]

Amanpour: did the U.S. want to keep troops
in Iraq?

Raddatz: yes they want to train Iraqis

Amanpour: it’s been eight years -
what do they need to learn about?

Raddatz: pepper spraying protesters

Kagan: Iran is threatening us and
we’re retreating!

McCain: we should let Iraqis dictate
American defense policy

Amanpour: I see

Amanpour: Senator should we pull out of Iraq ?

McCain: I fear foreign nations may try
to influence what goes on in Iraq which is
just plain wrong

Amanpour: oh my

McCain: the people in this region loved
the surge and love American soldiers

Amanpour: they do?

McCain: Iraq might form an alliance with Iran
and we should not let than happen

Raddatz: How do you get Iraqis agree to
let U.S. troops stay?

McCain: clearly you use the incredible
boyish charm of Lindsay Graham

Raddatz: what about immunity?

McCain: America should have backed Alawi
in Iraq’s free and fair elections!

Stengel: Look Obama made a promise and
he’s going to keep oh an also Iraq doesn’t want
us to be there and the American people don’t
want to stay either

Amanpour: so I hear you saying we should stay

Stengel: that’s right

Biden: In Libya Qaddafi is gone and went spent
almost nothing and no Americans were killed!

Amanpour: wasn’t Libya a brilliant success?

Kagan: it was a terrible failure because the
Libya operation doesn’t prove how big our
American genitalia are

Stengel: speak for yourself Bob

Raddatz: Drones make war easier -
and fun too

Amanpour: Should the U.S. launch a
NATO attack on Syria?

McCain: Obama is a terrible President because
Qaddafi wasn’t killed fast enough

Amanpour: you seem incredibly petty

McCain: also no British and French were killed and
they led unlike that weak total loser guy who beat me

Ama: wow thanks for proving me wrong

Kagan: I think Syria could either go bad or good

Amanpour: thanks for your expertise everyone

Amanpour: Jon Karl - please reduce our democracy
to talking points

Romney: I’m running for office I can’t have illegals!

Obama: give me that 3:00 am phone call - I’ll cut you!

Biden: if there is no jobs bill rape will rise!

McCain: Obama has a bus made in Canada
which I can’t believe because he took the
idea from me!

Bachmann: My campaign staff is not quitting!

Bachmann campaign staff: we’re outta here!
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