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To: aladin who wrote (51137)	6/21/2004 8:30:26 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793996

Is this for real? I can't find any other confirmation. Could it be because of reviews like the NYT one and this one? Clinton would hate to show up for book signings and have nobody come. Flubba: Super-hyped Clinton book tour gets off to rocky start By David R. Guarino Boston Herald Monday, June 21, 2004 Former President Clinton's worldwide book-plugging tour began with a thud yesterday as he melted down on British TV, critiqued his successor's war in Iraq and tried, years later, to settle old scores. In his book, excoriated as self-indulgent and dull in early reviews, Clinton used a round of high-profile interviews to try to draw attention to the 957-page opus, ``My Life.'' In an hour-long ``60 Minutes'' interview, Clinton rapped President Bush [related, bio] for failing to let United Nations inspectors finish the search for weapons of mass destruction before the beginning of the war. ``In terms of the launching of the war, I believe we made an error in not allowing the United Nations to complete the inspections process,'' Clinton said. He echoed the critique in a Time magazine sit-down. ``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,'' he told Time. Clinton said al-Qaeda, not Saddam Hussein, was the greatest threat facing America. But it is a combustible overseas interview that might trip up the 42nd president's well-choreographed publicity tour. During an interview with the BBC to be broadcast tomorrow, Clinton reportedly loses his temper when journalist David Dimbleby repeatedly asks whether Clinton is contrite over his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The Times of London reported that Clinton became ``visibly angry and rattled'' in a ``display of temper that lasts several minutes.'' ``As outbursts go, it is not just some flash that is over in an instant,'' a BBC executive who saw the interview told the London Telegraph. ``It will leave (viewers) wondering whether he is as contrite as he says he is about past events.'' The outburst follows concerted efforts by the former president to highlight his sorrow for the 1995 affair that led to his impeachment. ``I was involved in two great struggles: a great public struggle with the Republican Congress, and a private struggle with my old demons,'' Clinton told Time. ``I won the public one and lost the private one.'' But Clinton also used the interviews to lash out at critics, including former Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who led the Whitewater and Lewinsky probes. On ``60 Minutes,'' Clinton said he emerged the victor because Starr and other Republican ideologues didn't succeed in driving him out of office. ``I didn't quit. I never thought of resigning and I stood up to it and beat it back,'' he said. ``The whole battle was a badge of honor. I don't see it as a stain, because it was illegitimate. ``On the day I die, I'll still be glad I fought 'em and I'll still be glad I beat 'em. And I'll still believe it was a bogus, phony deal.''