Hey Maxine, you doin' anything after the dinner?
Posted on 10/29/2003 5:41:35 AM PST by mountaineer
MEMPHIS - The terrorists and war criminals who plague the world today all share a common base, regardless of their religious or ethnic backgrounds, former President Clinton said Tuesday.
They all believe they have "the whole truth'' and the right to impose it on everyone else, said Clinton, who was in Memphis to receive the National Civil Rights Museum's highest honor, the Freedom Award.
"And that's what's at the root of all the problems in the Middle East,'' Clinton said. "That's what's at the root of all the fighting that went on for years between the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. That's what was at the root of what went on with all that ethnic cleansing between the Bosnian Serbs and the Muslims and the Croatians.'' rest of story
"But if you live in a world that is as interdependent as ours, you cannot possibly kill, jail or occupy everybody who is against you."
Clinton never mentioned President Bush by name or directly criticized Bush administration policy in Iraq or Afghanistan.
"That does not mean that you stop trying to defeat your enemies," Clinton was quick to add. "I honor the young men and women in uniform... But they shouldn’t be asked to carry this whole load."
Clinton said American policy should be to "make more friends than terrorists" and he pointed to his administration’s efforts to forge peace agreements in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Rwanda. full story
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And we all know how successful his efforts in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Rwanda have been.
Bonus question: Were more Kosovars killed by the Serbs just because they were Kosovars or were more Serbs killed by IFOR just because they were Serbs?
What an asshole. Of course, the enablers in the room would not think this is sexual harassment but, if Ahhnold or Bob Packwood were to make the same remark......
I don't suppose he's talking about the way the Serbs were driven out of Croatia in the early 1990s. Only Muslims can be the victims of "ethnic cleansing."
Interesting he didn't mention Korea, huh?
It's a shame the people who gave IMPOTUS this award actually think he ever gave a rat's rear about civil rights or them. Maybe he should have shared with them some of those n****r jokes of which he's infamously fond.
Bull Connor used fire hoses, dogs and clubs to attack marchers, defending his belief in a segregated America.
The edited images telecast was that era's Rodney King video. Authorities today would use "fire hoses, dogs and clubs to 'attack' marchers" who threaten to physically overpower police lines.
Some may disagree with what I remember of those days but how could anyone not notice that the Freedom Award is for those who support "human rights and struggles against oppressive regimes" YET three of the four whose names "repeatedly come up in the nominating process" are Americans. To wit,
Robertson said others whose names repeatedly come up in the nominating process include Tibet’s Dalai Lama, former Southern Christian Leadership Conference president Joseph Lowery, U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and and Clinton political intimate Rev. Jesse Jackson.
As usual America is the evil, racist imperial empire. The struggle continues said the "civil rights" industry spokesperson. I guess so. It's very lucrative.
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