Yeah, tell that to Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, etc. etc.
Clintoon should just attend to what he's really there for.
Posted on 05/22/2004 10:37:36 AM PDT by demlosers
Former United States President Bill Clinton today slammed what he called the “unilateral” foreign policy of the Bush administration.
Clinton told an audience of about 1,000 Brazilian business and political leaders that the United States needed more international partners to fight terrorism.
“Rather than taking a unilateral path, we need to strengthen international organisations,” said Clinton. “We need more international partners.”
He was speaking in Sao Paulo at the inauguration of an academic institute founded by former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who led the country from 1995-2003.
“In Iraq, we should have let the United Nations inspectors finish their job,” said Clinton. Any military intervention, he added, should have involved the United Nations and a broad multinational force, rather than the “coalition of the willing” currently on the ground there.
“Iraq is about unilateralism versus internationalism,” Clinton said.
“I have a different world view (from that of the Bush administration). I believe the United States should support the World Criminal Court, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Kyoto (environmental) Agreement and other international efforts.”
He added: “Promoting health, education and democracy is also part of an anti-terrorism strategy.”
Cardoso echoed Clinton’s theme, saying: “The unilateralism we have seen in the last two or three years is very troubling. It goes against the grain.”
Commenting specifically on US policy in Iraq, Cardoso said: “Freedom brought by force is not freedom. The situation there is very worrisome.”
Clinton said the task of bringing democracy to Iraq will be “very challenging.”
He added: “There is no doubt that the Middle East would be better off with a democratic Iraq. However, democracy cannot be imposed anywhere. The Iraqis have to want it.”
Commenting more broadly on the prospects for democracy in the world, Clinton said: “On balance, I am very optimistic. Compared to 50 years ago or 20 years ago, democracy is advancing in the world.”
He added: “In the 1990s, for the first time in history, more people were living under democracies than under dictatorships.”
He said that, currently, the world boasts some 120 democracies among the nearly 200 countries.
The recent AIDS outbreak in the adult film industry was caused by an American porn star who made a film in Rio..Ya think?
What a traitor. Of course, he wants us to give up our sovereignty to all the leftists and banana republics in the UN.
Pandering to second world oligarchs who are letting their own countries slide off the cliff.
Isn't it time that the Republicans said that people who travel around the world abusing their country to foreign audiences are traitors?
Clinton has been doing this for a whole lifetime, from the time he used US taxpayer dollars to organize anti-Vietnam war protests in London.
To criticize administration politics domestically is excusable, but to criticize the conduct of an American war in a foreign venue is outright treason. Republicans should say so.
Whatever happened to the custom that ex-presidents should keep their mouths shut? Whatever happened to the tradition that "politics stops at the edge of the water"? Whatever happened to the obligation for politicians of every party to pull together in time of war, which clinton so loudly asserted when he sent missiles into the desert during Monica gate and nailed a couple of camels?
For at least $100,000, a private jet, and some porn stars to rub his whatever.
Soul mate?
And with him being the boss man.
What was Clintons legacy on foreign policy again???? I mean asside from running away in Somolia and bombing Serbia from 40,000 feet because he was too scared to fight Serbs on teh ground.
What did Toon know about Oil For Food and when did he know it?
Yeah, tell that to Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, etc. etc.
Clintoon should just attend to what he's really there for.
Anybody still doubt that he has his sights on a high position in the UN?
The outstanding characteristic in G.W. Bush's performance is leadership: whereas the best of all characteristics in W.J. Clinton's performance was ... following the crowd.
You’re a freak’n nut case for saying that. When tyrants attack freedom, it must be defended by force. What a freak’n moron…
35 nations is not “unilateral”.
So much for politics stopping at the water's edge.
Clinton always was and always will be one of the country's "Hate America First" crowd. He is a repulsive creature and may he rot.
Unfortunately, we all know Clinton's only view was the top of an intern's head. He's bashing Bush when all this is a result of his watch.
Clinton and Carter are two ex-presidents who cannot keep their mouths shut unlike other president who had some class.
After pondering this, I don't think that's the goal. It's a consequence of course. In the long run, our dem socialists don't want to lose power to anyone including Europeans, etc. The democrats are using this as an issue to attack Bush and to move the country towards European style socialism.
Bill Clinton should quit giving speeches on foreign policy and stick to things he is good at, like Rape, Fraud, Perjury, Campaign Finance violations and Dereliction of Duty
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