"Former president accepts explanation on State of the Union"
"Clinton, in a phone interview Tuesday evening with CNN's Larry King, said he thought the White House had addressed the controversy surrounding a disputed claim in Bush's State of the Union address. "
"I thought the White House did the right thing in just saying 'we probably shouldn't have said that,' " Clinton told King."
"You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president. I mean, you can't make as many calls as you have to make without messing up once in a while. The thing we ought to be focused on is what is the right thing to do now. That's what I think."
Clinton also said Tuesday night that at the end of his term, there was "a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for " in Iraq.
"So I thought it was prudent for the president to go to the U.N. and for the U.N. to say, 'You got to let these inspectors in, and this time if you don't cooperate the penalty could be regime change, not just continued sanctions.'"
Clinton told King: "People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons."
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