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The no-show manuscript--hillary clinton Infrastructure Answers Simon & Schuster: A TRANSLATION
3.8.03 | Mia T

Posted on 04/08/2003 11:35:48 AM PDT by Mia T

The no-show manuscript
hillary clinton Infrastructure Answers
Simon & Schuster: A TRANSLATION

by Mia T, 4.8.03

 

 

One Clinton intimate explains: "In all fairness, she has been preoccupied with serving New York during these challenging times... [But] the writing is wonderful, touching, and will lift Hillary to a new level of respect."

HILLARY CLINTON BOOK PAST DUE
PUBLISHER'S ANGST OVER NO MANUSCRIPT, NO TITLE
SENATOR TOOK LARGEST ADVANCE IN HISTORY

 

TRANSLATION:

Fairness? You little people just don't get it. This is no simple second-story thief. This is HILLARY!

Haven't you noticed? She's been preoccupied with serving herself during these challenging times, what with juggling

 

 

 

 

 

all while hedging her bets on the war/homeland-security thing, (the primary reason for the delay, BTW… It is unwritten HILLARY! policy not to put her stupidity in writing; obviously, we're awaiting the outcome of the war thing in order to demonstrate her "prescience." )

[Nonetheless] the writing is wonderfully revisionist in its scope even as it reprises her victim status; it is intended to lift HILLARY! from toilet to bidet. (VIVE LA FRANCE!)

Buddy web sites quickly exploded in cyberspace. (Socks web sites, too, Socks would add.) Mrs. clinton, a long-time adherent of synergistic exploitation, "authored" an instant book about three groups favored for exploitation by the clintons: dogs, cats and children. "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets" was published by the clintons' personal agitprop-and-money-laundering machine, Simon & Schuster. (For details, see Is hillary clinton's $8M "book advance" a Peter-Principle artifact?)

MIA T, Buddy Death Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers

 

Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs; Hillary is getting $8 million dollars for hers, for a total of $20 million. Not bad for a couple that for eight years swore under oath they couldn't remember anything.

--anonymous

 

YOO-HOO Mrs. clinton

A '68 Mustang is not exculpatory

 

by Mia T, 1-29-03

link to movie

 HALF A HOUSE, HALF A BRAIN: Why the clintons hit on Simon & Schuster

by Mia T

 

Hillary Clinton's equal and inapposite reactions seem to be, at first blush, instances of the immutable First Law of The Betrayed and Humiliated Wife: Outdo the errant hubby's doxy...at all cost.

Thus, Vanity Fair's glamorous Marilyn-Monroe spread of Monica's digitally reduced spread was answered by Vogue's lushly Elizabethan, gauzy-focus, hindquarter-cropped-pleated-and-flounced, Queen-Hillary-for-President cover.

And now we have Hillary Clinton doing a Martha Stewart, who herself, is purported to have been "done" by the aforementioned errant rogue (notwithstanding the plain fact that Martha is more well-known for her tarts than for being one).

Seems Hillary Clinton is now writing a book titled "An Invitation to the White House" in which she will follow the format of the Martha Stewart classic, "Entertaining", claim multifarious Martha-Stewart talents and wrap her indecorous and corrupt, backwoods, backroom style of White House "entertaining" in Martha-Stewart elegance and purity. (NB: Written years before Martha ImPloded.)

"The Clinton White House has been noted for the...innovation of its events," said Carolyn Reidy, president of Simon & Schuster's Trade Division, the book's publisher.

Hillary Clinton's spokeswoman, Marsha Berry, added that the book will focus on how the Clintons have "advanced the availability" of the White House by increasing the number and diversity of people; that it will "highlight the access that the Clintons have given to more people, more types of entertainment..."

It should be emphasized that it was without even a trace of irony or the slightest smirk that both women related the above.

On closer inspection, Hillary Clinton's bizarre behavior is more than simple Ivana Trump-eting. It is vulgar, compulsive, shameless, smarmy, contemptuous, demagogic, megalomaniacal, in-your-face naked clintonism.

It is one thing for the frumpy, chipmunk-cheek, huge-hindquarter fishwife to insinuate her image -- albeit Elizabethan-shrouded and low-res-clouded -- onto the cover of Vogue; but it is quite another for the corrupt harpy to trumpet White House access even as new charges emerge of the clintons' rapes and other predations, of the clintons' corrupt quid-pro-quo arrangements with a menacing and motley assortment of drug dealers, gun runners and nuclear weapons makers.

For Hillary Clinton to vaunt White House access just as the clintons' China treason is becoming increasingly, patently manifest to all requires a certain level of contempt for the people and for the country that is uniquely clinton.

Thank heaven for small favors...

Or as the real Martha Stewart would say,
"That is a good thing."

HILLARY CLINTON BOOK PAST DUE, PUBLISHER'S ANGST OVER NO MANUSCRIPT, NO TITLE; SENATOR TOOK LARGEST ADVANCE IN HISTORY

Executives at publishing powerhouse SIMON AND SCHUSTER are dismayed over Hillary Clinton's failure to turn in a completed manuscript for her book, due out in August, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

The senator of the Empire State has already received a $2.85055 million cash advance on her memoirs, from a total deal valued at more than $8 million.

MORE

"We must be off to the printer next month, but the manuscript isn't in yet!" said one SIMON AND SCHUSTER source last week. "Advance sales are lagging. And there is no title. Without a title it's been difficult to market."

One top source says the situation has not reached a legal concern, rather it is being described as an "annoyance."

The former first lady signed the deal before the 9/11 terror attacks.

One Clinton intimate explains: "In all fairness, she has been preoccupied with serving New York during these challenging times... [But] the writing is wonderful, touching, and will lift Hillary to a new level of respect."

HILLARY CLINTON BOOK PAST DUE
PUBLISHER'S ANGST OVER NO MANUSCRIPT
NO TITLE
Drudgereport.com | 4/7/03 | Matt Drudge

NOTE THE CBS--SIMON & SCHUSTER CONNECTION

 

Viacom



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: Illinois; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bookdeal; clinton911; clintonbribery; clintoncorruption; clintonfailure; clintonlegacy; clintonquidproquo; clintonrapes; clintonrapists; corapist; littlepeople; simonschuster

1 posted on 04/08/2003 11:35:48 AM PDT by Mia T
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It was never a book deal, it was a covert contribution. It is no diffeerent than all those furniture gifts.
2 posted on 04/08/2003 11:42:24 AM PDT by longtermmemmory
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3 posted on 04/08/2003 11:42:26 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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4 posted on 04/08/2003 11:44:29 AM PDT by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: longtermmemmory
It was never a book deal, it was a covert contribution. It is no diffeerent than all those furniture gifts.
 

Designs on designs...
Although a reliable source had previously warned me about the wife's designs on the people's designs -- she had apparently acquired the nasty habit of pilfering from the White House drapery fund -- when I created the following metaphoric musing a year before the clintons "moved," I never imagined that she would -- that they would -- in real life -- in real time -- actually swipe the sofa.
 
Smaller objects neatly tuck-able in nuncupative deals & unnumbered Swiss accounts, without question...

BUT THE SOFA??

Jan. 1, 2000
 
hillary's "interior" design scheme
(an animated how-to)

by Mia T

copyright Mia T 2000

The White House Booty
 
 
 
Letters .. thanked Lee and Joy Ficks for their 1993 donation of a kitchen set to the White House. Joy Ficks said she was surprised to hear the Clintons are keeping the kitchen set as a personal gift.

White House Gifts List

 
 
 
 
• $19,900 two sofas, an easy chair and an ottoman from Steve Mittman,
New York.
 
• $3,650 kitchen table and four chairs from Lee Ficks, Cincinnati.
 
• $2,843 sofa from Brad Noe, High Point, N.C.
 
• $1,170 lamps from Stuart Schiller, Hialeah, Fla.
 
• $1,000 needlepoint rug from David Martinous, Little Rock.
 
Following are gifts the Clintons received in 2000 and are paying for:
 
• $9,433 china cabinet, chandelier and a copy of President Lincoln's
Cooper Union speech from Walter and Selma Kaye, New York.
 
• $7,375 two coffee tables and two chairs from Denise Rich, New York.
 
• $7,000 dining room table, server and golf club from Mr. and Mrs. Ron
Dozoretz, Washington.
 
• $6,282 two carpets from Glen Eden Carpets, Calhoun, Ga.
 
• $5,000 rug from Martin Patrick Evans, Chicago.
 
• $5,000 china from Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brandt, Winnetka, Ill.
 
• $4,994 flatware from Ghada Irani, Los Angeles.
 
• $4,992 china from Iris Cantor, New York.
 
• $4,967 flatware, Edith Wasserman, Beverly Hills, Calif.
 
• $4,967 flatware, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pynoos, Beverly Hills, Calif.
 
• $4,787 china from Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, Los Angeles.
 
• $4,920 china from Mr. and Mrs. Steven Spielberg, Universal City,
Calif.
 
• $3,000 painting from Joan Tumpson, Miami.
 
• $2,993 televisions and DVD player from Paul Goldenberg, La Habra,
Calif.
 
• $2,400 dining room chairs from Arthur Athis, Los Angeles.
 
• $2,110 china and jacket from Jill and Ken Iscol, Pound Ridge, N.Y.
 
• $1,588 flatware from Myra Greenspun, Green Valley, Nev.
 
• $595 pantsuit and sweater, Margaret O'Leary, San Francisco.
 
• $524 golf driver and golf balls from Richard Helmstetter, Carlsbad,
Calif.
 
• $500 antique book on George Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Yorkin, Los
Angeles.
 
• $499 golf driver from Ely Callaway, Carlsbad, Calif.
 
• $450 leather jacket from Vin Gupta, Omaha.
 
• $350 golf driver, Jack Nicholson, Beverly Hills, Calif.
 
• $350 framed tapestry, Mr. and Mrs. Vo Viet Thanh, Vietnam.
 
• $340 two sweaters from Robin Carnahan and Nina Canci, St. Louis.
 
• $300 flatware from Colette D'Etremont, New Brunswick, Canada.
 
• $300 painting of Buddy, Brian B. Ready, Chappaqua, N.Y.

 

Chair Lift
 

Among the gifts that former president Bill Clinton says he is keeping as
personal presents he accepted last year are $28,000 worth of furnishings
that documents and interviews indicate were given to the National Park
Service in 1993 as part of the permanent White House collection...
 
Two of the furniture makers whose donations Clinton took with him on
leaving the White House last month say they gave them to the White House
as part of a widely publicized, $396,000 redecoration of the executive
mansion and not to Clinton personally.
 
"When we've been asked to donate, it was always hyphenated with the
words, " 'White House,' " New York manufacturer Steve Mittman said of
his family-owned business, which gave two sofas, an easy chair and an
ottoman, worth $19,900 and listed by Clinton as part of the gifts he
took with him. "To us, it was not a donation to a particular person."

Gifts Were Not Meant for Clintons, Some Donors Say

Sen. Clinton made another assertion - one that is equally misleading.

She contends she was not obliged to report the first Leiber bag she received "because it was received before the Clintons entered the White House."

But this bag, valued at $3,500, was received after the election and during the transition and therefore obviously was related to the Clinton presidency.

HILLARY'S STORY ON HER WHITE HOUSE GIFTS IS FULL OF (LOOP)HOLES, Dick Morris

 

 
But he said the Socks purse was given to Clinton during the transition in late 1992, before her husband took office...

HILLARY: I RETURNED GIFTS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE

TRANSLATION: An earlier example of the clinton post-election/pre-swearing-in klepto-bribery scheme...

 

MORE: HILLARY: I RETURNED GIFTS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE [SOCKS BAGS BAG]

5 posted on 04/08/2003 11:50:21 AM PDT by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Mia T
Can Viacom stockholders bring a derivative stockholders' suit for misuse of corporate money and grossly negligent management?
6 posted on 04/08/2003 11:59:08 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: aristeides
Not if the clinton quid pro quos keep rolling in… ;)
7 posted on 04/08/2003 12:02:45 PM PDT by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Support Free Republic
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8 posted on 04/08/2003 12:12:42 PM PDT by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Mia T
As if HIllary didn't know she'd be "busy representing New York" while trying to write a book.

Hey, she never intended to write a book. She intended to take the money and run.
9 posted on 04/08/2003 12:17:51 PM PDT by fightinJAG
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To: aristeides
If not for this grotesquerie, certainly for the other one. Bump!
10 posted on 04/08/2003 12:30:42 PM PDT by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Mia T
Hey, Mia, did you see the Doonesbury strip Sunday? Says the only thing that came out of all the Clintoon investigations was one felony. Has the character who always wears a helmet (BD?) in a fit to see FOX news as an antidote to such a "bad" revelation. Figured you be all over that one.
11 posted on 04/08/2003 12:35:46 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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To: Lee'sGhost
You need go no further than the Republicans & GW for these felones to run freely. I am surprised that they aren't more flagrant in their dirty deeds. Shows ya just how CORRUPT our government is.
12 posted on 04/08/2003 12:45:49 PM PDT by Digger
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To: BARBRA

04.08.03 UPDATE:

Sen. Clinton's Virtual Office Welcome Header

Sen. Clinton's Virtual Office Welcome Header

Sen. Clinton's Virtual Office Welcome Header

GORE ON CLINTON RAPES-THE VIDEO

YOO-HOO Mrs. clinton: THE CLINTON RAPES ARE "UNBECOMING"  

HILLARY "YOU KNOW" CLINTON 

SEN. KNOWNOTHING VICTIM CLINTON 

CLINTON LEGACY OF LYNCHING 

evidence of consciousness of guilt at Ron Brown's funeral
clinton Complex-Question Fallacy Scheme 

HILLARY CLINTON LACKS COGNITIVE CAPACITY TO LEAD 

THE CLINTON LIE-BRARY 

It won't s-p-i-n 

AMERICAN MUSEUM--ER--MUSLIM COUNCIL 

"There isn't a shred of evidence."

 

Privacy Policy 

 
 
 
NEW AUDIO!
Hear the Bill Bennett epilogue
 

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Dear new sucker--er--New Yorker,

This virtual office was established because you are absolutely forbidden to set your peasant foot in my real one. This is how I got here, and this is how I did it.. This helped, too. And this. And this. You had better take a moment to genuflect before the newly erected clinton altar. Additionally, I am pleased to present my new clinton crime family video greeting and video farewell. You would be wise to study them carefully. And don't bother E-mailing me. I couldn't care less what the little people think.

A missive from the smartest woman in the world. Study it.

Sincerely,

Latest clinton News

the logic of pathologic self-interest

The no-show manuscript
hillary clinton Infrastructure Answers Simon & Schuster: A TRANSLATION

United Most of Us Stand

DECAPITATION

Moynihan Myths

Another mistaken 'conceptzia'
WHY AMERICA (& THE WORLD) CANNOT SURVIVE ANOTHER CLINTON
(INDEED, IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT WE ARE GOING TO SURVIVE THE FIRST ONE,)

clinton POLICY:
MAKE CERTAIN America was not "the biggest power on the block."

Either they are obsolete… or civilization is

The 30 Seconds that Seemed Like 60 Minutes:

Utter-Failure clintons Concoct Left-Wing-Radio Scheme FIG LEAF(Liberals have always had problems figuring out causation)

"ONE OF THOSE GROUPS OBSESSED WITH THE CLINTONS"

10-Yr Anniversary of WTC Bombing Marks clintons' Utter Failure

hillary clinton A SECURITY RISK: Removal Calls Begin

The wife's self-serving war oscillations are really nothing more than a reprise of the self-serving oscillating ersatz presidency of the husband (Why we cannot afford another clinton. . .)

HILLARY CLINTON KNEW PRECISELY WHO SAMI AL-ARIAN WAS

hillary clinton Covertly Hedges Her Bets on the War While Overtly Betting Everything on the Virtual Certainty--Another Terrorist Attack

THE INTERMINABLE clintons 
It's time to take out the trash...
A Senate en passant capture is THE MOVE...
 

THERE SHE GOES -- AGAIN

The Curious Candidacy of Carol Moseley-Braun

running clintons...

On clinton's missus' war oscillations...

How to get rid of the clintons in 3 easy steps

THE UNSTATED MESSAGE OF THE POWELL EVIDENCE

THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER: Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992

CLINTON RAPE OF BROADDRICK:
PRUDHOMME CONFRONTS GORE -- THE VIDEO

hitchens on the clintons annotated

69% of Voters Nationwide Don't Want hillary clinton to Run for President, EVER

A '68 Mustang is not exculpatory

clinton LIEbrary FLYover & other clinton FLIES

BUSH: "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather."

Q ERTY6 utter failure

What did he know. . . and when did he know it ?

SpyLies and Audiotape

PARDONGATE, THE MOVIE--BILL BENNETT EPILOGUE

LEFT-WING TALK RADIO UNVEILED!  

HALF A HOUSE, HALF A BRAIN: Why we were compelled to hit on Simon & Schuster,our personal agitprop & money-laundering machine)

WRITTEN IN STONE: AN ARCHITECT DEFINES THE CLINTONS

DESIGNATED DEMOCRAT ATTACK DOG MAKES ITS DEBUT

Hardball's Softball hillary clinton 'Interview'

Q ERTY8 clinton/Democrat Debacle of '02

Buddy Death Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers

hillary clinton and FUNERALS

But they are space aliens

THE OTHER NIXON

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

The Real Danger of a Fake President: Post-9/11 Reconsideration of The Placebo President

copyright Mia T 2003

 


13 posted on 04/08/2003 1:02:37 PM PDT by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Lee'sGhost
Hey, Mia, did you see the Doonesbury strip Sunday? Says the only thing that came out of all the Clintoon investigations was one felony. Has the character who always wears a helmet (BD?) in a fit to see FOX news as an antidote to such a "bad" revelation. Figured you be all over that one.-- Lee'sGhost

 

 

…and Trudeau no doubt neglected to make the connection between the failure to convict the lovely couple and the current run on duct tape….

 

Free Republic is one of those groups obsessed with the Clinton era.

Word's out: Protest at Hillary's tonight (Freeper Named In Washington Whispers Article!!!!
U.S. News & World Report (Washington Whispers) | March 11, 2003 | Paul Bedard

 

 

I'll bet that Mr. Bedard is a member of "one of those groups" so "obsessed" with voting in the clintons that they--ooops!-- failed to notice the obvious danger of the lovely couple.

 
Thanx for 9/11, Paul...

MIA T, "ONE OF THOSE GROUPS OBSESSED WITH THE CLINTONS"

THE INTERMINABLE clintons
It's time to take out the trash...
A Senate en passant capture is THE MOVE...
NEW AUDIO! Hear the Bill Bennett (PARDONGATE) epilogue .
 
 
hillary clinton A SECURITY RISK: Removal Calls Begin
 
THE UNSTATED MESSAGE OF THE POWELL EVIDENCE
 
Another mistaken 'conceptzia'
WHY AMERICA (& THE WORLD) CANNOT SURVIVE ANOTHER CLINTON
(INDEED, IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT WE ARE GOING TO SURVIVE THE FIRST ONE,)
 
WAS AL QAEDA THE TARGET OF A TAKEOVER BY IRAQ?
 
Utter-Failure clintons Concoct Left-Wing-Radio Scheme FIG LEAF
Flower Children Fall for the 2 Self-Evident Thugs & Opportunists Yet Again
(Liberals have always had problems figuring out causation)
 
 
THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER: Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992
 
"ONE OF THOSE GROUPS OBSESSED WITH THE CLINTONS"
 
How to get rid of the clintons in 3 easy steps
 
the logic of pathologic self-interest
 
Mrs. clinton's REAL virtual office -- 03.10.03 update
 


14 posted on 04/08/2003 1:19:34 PM PDT by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Mia T
Exerpted:

http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/011habermas.htm

Happily solemn voices are absent from the German public sphere. No longing for fate, no intellectual drumming for the good comrade in arms. During the Gulf War the rhetoric of war, the conjuring up of state pathos, of dignity, of tragedy and of manly maturity was directed against a very powerful peace movement. There is little left now of either of these tendencies. Here and there a little malicious sneering about subdued pacifism or the tough slogan: "We are descending from moral heights." But not even these tones are compromising, because the supporters, as well as the opponents of the intervention are using a crystal-clear normative language.

The pacifist opponents highlight the moral difference between acting and non-acting, and point to the suffering of the civil victims, who have to pay the price of military force, even if it is executed with surgical precision. Their appeal, however, is not directed against the good conscience of hard-bitten realists proclaiming raison d’état, but against the legal pacifism of the red-green government. In line with the old democracies, who are influenced much more than we are by a rational natural law tradition, foreign secretary Fischer and defence secretary Scharping are relying on the idea of a domestication by means of human rights of state of nature between states.

This move puts onto the agenda the transformation of international law into a law for world citizens. Legal pacifism wants not just to restrict the latent state of war between sovereign states by means of international law, but also to replace it with a cosmopolitan order based on law. From Kant to Kelsen this tradition also existed in Germany. Today, however, it is for the first time being taken seriously by a German government. Direct membership in an association of world citizens would protect any state citizen against the arbitrary actions of their own governments. The most important consequence of an international law that even bypasses the sovereignty of states is, as can be seen already in the case of Pinochet, the personal liability of leaders and officials for the crimes committed during their state and war service. In Germany, the conviction pacifists on the one hand and the legal pacifists on the other dominate the public debate. Even the "realists" are hiding under the cloak of normative rhetoric. Naturally the statements - pro and con - reflect contrary motives. Those who think in terms of power politics, who mistrust the normative restraint of sovereign state power on principle, find themselves going hand in hand with the pacifists, while the "Atlanticists" - out of sheer faith in the alliance - suppress their anger against people who were not long ago publicly opposing the introduction of Pershing II rockets and against their new official state policy of enthusiasm for human rights. Dregger and Bahr stand alongside Stroebele, while Schäuble and Rühe stand next to Eppler. In short the left government, as well as the priority of normative arguments both help to explain not only the unusual constellation in the opinion-battle, but also the comforting fact that the public debate and mood are not different than in other Western European countries. No Sonderweg, no Sonderbewußtsein (special consciousness). Rather there are lines of disagreement emerging between continental Europeans and Anglo-Saxons, particularly between the ones who want to invite the UN General Secretary to their negotiations and who look for an agreement with Russia, and the hard-liners who trust only in the persuasive ability of their own weapons.

Naturally the United States and the member states of the European Union, who carry the burden of political responsibility, start from a unified position. After the collapse of the talks at Rambouillet the threatened military strikes against Yugoslavia are being carried out with the expressed intention of pushing through a liberal solution for the autonomy of Kosovo within Serbia. Within the framework of traditional international law this action would have counted as an interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, i.e. a violation of the principle of non-intervention. Under the premise of human rights policy, this intervention is now to be seen as an armed peace-creating mission, which is authorised by the association of nations (admittedly without a UN mandate). According to this Western interpretation the Kosovo war could turn into a leap from the classical conception of international law for sovereign states towards the cosmopolitan law of a world civil society. This development emerged with the foundation of the UN and was, after stagnation during the Cold War, accelerated by the Gulf War as well as other interventions. Humanitarian interventions since 1945, however, were always executed in the name of the UN and always depended on the formal agreement by the government in question (as long as there was a clearly identifiable and functioning state apparatus). During the Gulf War the Security Council established no flight zones over Iraqi territory and safe havens for Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and thereby in fact interfered with the internal affairs of a sovereign state. This move, however, was not explicitly justified by reference to the protection of a minority from persecution by its own government. In Resolution 688 of April 1991 the UN justified its actions with reference to the right of intervention that was accorded to the UN "in cases of a threat to international security". Today the situation is a different one. NATO is acting without a mandate from the Security Council, but justifies its intervention as emergency aid to a persecuted ethnic (and religious) minority.

15 posted on 04/08/2003 1:28:06 PM PDT by Helms (White Males of European Descent Make Better ??????)
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To: Mia T
Wonder if the donators got a night in the Lincoln bedroom in return for forking various "gifts"?
16 posted on 04/08/2003 4:36:27 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: Mia T
YEEESSSSSS!! Mia T back in action!
17 posted on 04/08/2003 5:09:15 PM PDT by jaz.357 (2 wrongs don't make a right,,,,but 3 lefts do!)
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To: Mia T
Hey there, Messrs Simon & Schuster.

I have a working title for all y'all to run with.

[Come straight oudder Missy KKKli'toon's Hot Springs Arkansas spiritual home]

How's about: It Takes a Psycopath

Think that all'll do for y'all?

Best ones -- Brian

18 posted on 04/09/2003 12:02:12 AM PDT by Brian Allen (I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny ....)
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To: Brian Allen
Or a Psychopath, you choose! [[HehHehHeh]
19 posted on 04/09/2003 12:03:26 AM PDT by Brian Allen (I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny ....)
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