Meet the Clintons in and out of the UAE

Khaleej Times ^ | March 4, 2006 | BILL O BRIEN & MATEIN KHALID

[TheLion]

MANY residents of UAE thought — mistakenly as it turns out — that they knew the Clintons. Former president Bill and former co-president/current New York Senator Hillary were deemed to be friends of the UAE — and the Arab world in general.

While Hillary hadn’t visited the UAE recently, Bill is a regular — at least when he’s invited for a paid speech or appearance. Sometimes, he’s graced us in person — other times via a video conference. President Bush, everyone agreed, was an anti-Arab cowboy, worthy of little more than derision.

[Bahbah]

Excellent piece. They just mistook Willey for Broadrick.

[saganite]

One of Bill Clinton’s less than enamoured female acquaintances, Katherine Willey, recounted that after a somewhat spirited, and by her account, not entirely consensual encounter, the future President noted she had a swollen lip. In a fairly cold tone, he suggested she “put some ice on that.” Perhaps, the former first family will offer similar advice to their disappointed fans in the UAE.

Oh man,that's gotta hurt.

[TheLion]

"Yes indeed, thanks Bill and Hill. Oh by the way, where was the ‘maximum control’ and opposition to ‘foreign government’ approach when the Clintons allowed the Chinese Government-controlled companies to get control of terminals on the US West Coast? When reporters queried the Clinton Administration’s Press Office in the late 90s about a Chinese firm getting control of the Panama Canal operations, the reply was the administration viewed the fury over port control as ‘silly stuff’."

Really nailed them!

[Carolinamom]

The author named the wrong woman here...It was Juanita Broderick, not Kathleen Willy w/the swollen lip.

[TheLion]

To say the least!

Hope the MSM will get all over this!

[TheLion]

Thanks!

[TheLion]

"If they paid, they could have had our nuclear technology like China. Silly Arabs. You have to pay BOTH Clintons!"

How true!

[Howlin]

Hillary and the Democrats don't understand the new media yet, it is going to hold people responsible for their actions.

No, they don't; and I never fully understood what they don't get until last week:

I went to Borders and bought Bill Sammon's new book, Strategery, and I looked at pages 144, 145, and 145, like DrDeb had told me to.

Here

and

HERE

I could hardly believe my eyes; and all I could think of was, "We did that. We really did it." I was SO proud of us.

[arasina]

This is not a totally new and exciting find. :o) It started on this thread: Dubai -Bye-Bye Baby and a link was provided to a Robert Novak column: The Clintons on Dubai

Also, Dick Morris was on FNC Friday night and talked about the supposed 'opposing views' of Bill and Hillary regarding the UAE.

Not surprising at all. That's the Clintons for ya.

[Poodlebrain]

I thought the most salient comment was "character matters". It's too bad that it takes painful lessons to learn that substance is more important than style.

[Howlin]

Yeah, I know; I told TheLion it needed its own thread.

[arasina]

And we've either become lazy on FR and aren't e-mailing threads like yours around to the conservative writers and radio hosts and our Congressmen, or they just aren't listening to us.

Nah, that's not it, Peach. FReepers haven't been lazy; actually we've all been quite busy gnawing at each other in disagreement and couldn't find the time to realize we still stand together on common ground and are united against the same enemy. ;o)

[Bon mots]

The most dangerous place to be over the past few weeks has been to stand between Hillary and a news camera eager for more commentary on how dangerous this whole deal really was, and how George Bush was absolutely cavalier with the security of the American homeland.

Bill had better start sleeping with one eye opened.

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, (L) Dubai's Crown prince and
Defence Minister, sits with former U.S. president Bill Clinton.

Oh no, selling more missile technology Bubba??? Ports?? Pardons?

[Peach]

I'd heard you and Buckhead were mentioned! That book is on my buy list.

How does Bill Sammon know what kind of computer Buckhead uses? Was he interviewed?

[Howlin]

Dunno.............LOL.

BTW, I bought it and I was FLOORED at how far they went to get that story. It's an EXCELLENT book.

Did you know that Mary Mapes "co-producer" use to work for Molly Ivins?

[Peach]

No, I didn't know that about Molly and Mary. I wonder if their names are in David Horowitz's excellent web site about the connections between the leftists?

I keep forgetting to go there and check stuff out when I see names.

[bubman]

Wow, now that was gooooood! Can't wait to forward the story to my lieberal fawning 'anything Clintoon does is received with a hard on' friends. Thxs for posting it.

[Peach]

Sadly, you're right, arasina. I wish it would stop and we'd get back to activism instead of fighting each other.

[TheLion]

It will be interesting to see how your friends will react to it!

[TheLion]

I started looking for info on this after I saw Morris on Fox....and was amazed how lightly O'reilly reacted to the revelation by Morris.