Posted on 06/23/2005 3:38:39 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Democrats are livid over Karl Rove's complaint that liberals reacted to the 9/11 attacks by urging "understanding" for terrorists.
But that was exactly the advice offered by ex-President Clinton, delivered in an address to Georgetown University less than two months after the attacks.
"First of all, terror, the killing of noncombatants for economic, political, or religious reasons has a very long history - as long as organized combat itself," Clinton lectured. "Those of us who come from various European lineages are not blameless."
Then the ex-president catalogued the terrorist abuses perpetrated by Europeans and Americans on Jews, Muslims and people of color.
"Indeed, in the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it, and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was Muslim on the Temple mound," he noted.
"Here in the United States, we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery and slaves were, quite frequently, killed even though they were innocent."
The U.S. "looked the other way," Clinton charged, "when significant numbers of Native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human and we are still paying the price today."
By the time Mr. Clinton was done with his terrorism history lesson, it was clear America got what it deserved on 9/11.
Libs think we ought to applaud their manipulations as evidence of their superior intelligence -- rather than as indications of their low moral character.
LBJ
Yet, they are completely without shame. And if you ever try to apply guilt onto one of them, they'll call it the lowest form of gutter politics.
The liberal has no strength and power of their own.
Therefore, their tactic must be to turn one against oneself -- which is the value of shame and guilt, to use your own power and strength against yourself. Once you understand that, they have no power over you. That's why thought and ideology is so important to them rather than just simply communicating with others. They feel they have to manipulate, deceive, control others as the only way they know how to be.
I'll accept that, but I have no first hand recollection of his Presidency! :) The other two though were a nightmare!
Indians were not thought of as "less than fully human", thats a bold faced lie. True they called them savages, and they were to the white man. There is plenty of proof that most leaders of America respected the Indians as a worthy foe. Read writings from people like Lewis and Clark or Jefferson and its pretty clear.
I know how Clinton would have reacted to Americans pioneers being slaughtered on their way to California or Kansas. "Now now we need to understand that your daughter is better off with that tribe and will learn to love them. Sorry your sons were killed but you knew the risks."
Bush would have sent the army out to exact revenge.
Where the hell are the Daniel Boones for today?
Sometimes I really, really like Newsmax.
If it quacks, waddles and swims ...
Clinton comes to mind. Oh, how the Liberals admired him for cleverly manipulating his way out of one successive jam after another and even sometimes pulling the wool over their eyes.
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