Posted on 06/20/2003 9:20:31 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket
Après Moi, Le Deluge: How Clinton Left Ticking Terror Time Bombs For Bush To Discover
From: Off With Their Heads - Traitors, Crooks & Obstructionists In American Politics, Media, Business
by Dick Morris
As King Louis XV lay dying, he ruminated about the state of the pre-revolutionary French kingdom his son would soon inherit. Every-where he looked, he saw peril-the anger of the peasants, the arrogance of the nobility, the unfairness of the tax system. Sadly, he reflected that the young man who would become Louis XVI faced tough times. Old King Louis may not have known that his son and his daughter-in-law, Marie Antoinette, would lose their heads to the guillotine, but he must have had some sense of looming catastrophe. "Après moi, le deluge," he said. After me, the disaster.
As Bill Clinton left office in January 2001, America was outraged by his final insult to the integrity of his office-the pardons he granted to the rich, corrupt, and underserving. But only months later we learned of his final, horrific insult to us-that he had bequeathed to George W. Bush three ticking time bombs that would shortly explode: al Qaeda, Iraq, and North Korea.
President Calvin Coolidge's name was forever blackened after the apparently prosperous economy he left his successor, Herbert Hoover, imploded in a stock market crash seven months later. If history is just, President Bill Clinton's will likewise be blamed for leaving George W. Bush a nation unaware of, and unprotected from, the deadly peril that hit seven months later.
How much did he know? Everything he needed to. Al Qaeda was no unknown force to Bill Clinton: The terrorist group had struck the United States repeatedly on his watch, bombing the World Trade Center, the U.S.S. Cole, two U.S. military barracks in Saudi Arabia, and our embassies in Africa. Iraq had kicked out U.N. weapons inspectors, and it was diverting most of the $2 billion per year it was getting in oil money to buy and develop arms. And American intelligence had found that North Korea was secretly building nuclear weapons in vast, under-ground caverns, violating a commitment it made to Clinton in 1994.
Clinton knew where all three time bombs lay. His national security people even briefed Bush's incoming administration on the dangers of al Qaeda as they left office. But Clinton had done little to catch al Qaeda; he'd done nothing to rein in Iraq; and he had actively covered for North Korea as it violated its treaty commitments.
As he left the White House, he could well have said: Après moi, le deluge.
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I did, however, run across this little tidbit:
Even after he left office, the United States was well on its way to paying off the national debt...
This is a bald-faced lie. The national debt increased during each and every one of the eight (though it seemed like more) years of the Clinton administration.
Fort Marcy Park mud stains?
It has to be of that magnitude.
FWIW, "Après Moi, Le Deluge" is Frog for; "After Me, The Flood", the motto of Royal Air Force Squadron No. 617, the famous "Dam Busters" of WWII.
It is an interesting choice of a title by Morris. If he means; "After Clinton, the Guano Hits the Fan", it is very appropriate.
BTW, FYI, one of the Lancaster bomber pilots on the damn raid in 1943, was an American, Sqdn. Ldr. Joe C. McCarthy.
One item would not be enought. Would need to be something that could be spread out in several locations "in case something happens" to the Toe Sucker. Video or audio of something made into a zillion copies set to be deployed in the media hands. Just a hunch.
For sure, I was taking that for granted.
Leni
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