(Bill) Clinton urges end to global inequalities after war

Reuters | 10/15/01 | Alan Crosby

[kattracks]

PRAGUE, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Monday the United States and its allies had to win the war against terrorism but in the long run the West also had to bring an end to global inequalities.

Speaking at a human rights conference in the Czech capital, Clinton repeated his support for his successor George W. Bush, and the action taken following last month's suicide attacks on the United States.

"At the moment we have to win the fight we are in, but over the long run we have to spread the benefits and shrink the burdens of this new age," he said.

"We have to get people in the developing world to turn away from primitive hatreds, we have to get people in the developed world to turn away from short-sighted selfishness," he said.

He said global inequalities fuelled violence and the United States and other wealthy countries had to do more to combat poverty, AIDS and environmental issues such as global warming.

Bush in March pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto treaty on climate change, saying the deal, signed by Clinton, would harm the U.S. eocnomy.

By withdrawing from the accord, Bush removed the world's biggest economy and the emitter of one quarter of the globe's man-made greenhouse gases, from a system based on countries of the world acting in concert.

[rbmillerjr]

LMAO, i live in columbia, md btw,,,,,in lieu of Orioles winning we have the memories and example of Cal......and

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[The Duke]

And I say let's start by distributing the contents of Slick Willey's own offshore bank accounts...

[Shurnuff]

I notice that although bjclinton announced soon after the attacks that he would be taking four different commercial flights that week. However, the only flights anyone could find that he took were on private airplanes. Same with hillary.... who just took a private jet (.....after one of her entourage had run down a policeman in an effort to dodge an airline security patrol). These stupid, attention-grabbing, publicity-hungry people are too scared to fly commercial, and don't want it made public that all their flights are private. clinton said "global inequalities fueled violence and the United States and other wealthy countries had to do more to combat poverty, AIDS and environmental issues such as global warming."

Right.... if we, who work hard for our living, will just take half our income and give to people in other countries who try every way they can to destroy us..... and if we would only happily co-exist with and embrace the populations whose life-styles endanger us all..... and if we support the PC environmentalists who seek to take away any private rights we now have......

Puke!!!!! So there you have it: clinton pretty much said the same thing the prince said.... you know, the one whose money Giuliani refused because he inferred that 9/11 was our own fault?

[Eva]

I could see this coming over the week-end. Some of the remarks that I was hearing my the media were inferring that the Muslims should have no complaint with the media, but let's look at it from their prospective.

The media is far left, like the Clintons. The left represents the embodiment of everything that the Muslims hate about the US, the immorality, homosexuality, cowardice, arrogance, etc. I guess we could go through the beatitudes and that would pretty much sum up the left. To the Muslim fundamentalists, the left and its media are evil personified.

[Cobra64]

Clinton brought this upon us when he pardoned convicted terrorists! Talk about condoning terrorism! Geeez.

[Cobra64]

I'm sure he wasn't sleeping. He was undoubtedly on the receiving end of a "Lewinski."

[EaglesUpForever]

This makes me SICK. Clinton is a disgrace to humanity and is largely responsible for the disasters of 9/11. That is his legacy. He should shut up, after he has been sued into poverty by the victims of 9/11.

[Cobra64]

The UN to give Clinton his own country? Let's give him Afghanistan so he can play in the sandbox with his buddy bin Laden. Bill would have to take on a new middle East name though. More than three sylables... Bubba-Bill-Is-Bin-Ladens-Buddy.

[RightWhale]

bring an end to global inequalities

Yet again, X42 has spoken truth. Good he is not in position to implement the solution, because it would be forgotten by evening.

End global inequality. This would require bringing the rest of the world up to western standards. And introducing Islamism to some of the major recent developments since A.D. 1000.

[boycott]

Bill,

You've left us with enough problems already. So please shut up.

[be-baw]

we have to get people in the developed world to turn away from short-sighted selfishness

said the most selfish, short-sighted president in our nation's history...

[Cobra64]

A funny thought just occured to be when you mentioned the word "trough." Since the Talibans are stealing the food we're giving to the civilians, we should have a second "flavor" of food air dops. Contents would contain raw pork and hog entrails. For dessert, cloven hooves and rotting shrimp. Who knows? Maybe they'll develop a preference for this diet over their current diet of goat sh!!t and straw for ruffage.

[Piquaboy]

Intercourse him and the horse he rode in on. He is angling for Coffee Anons job in the UN. He would really make us proud of him then. He was looking for his legacy down in Monica's thong but didn't see it.

[Shurnuff]

I notice that although bjclinton announced soon after the attacks that he would be taking four different commercial flights that week. However, the only flights anyone could find that he took were on private airplanes. Same with hillary.... who just took a private jet (.....after one of her entourage had run down a policeman in an effort to dodge an airline security patrol). These stupid, attentiongrabbing, publicityhungry people are too scared to fly commercial, and don't want it made public that all their flights are private.

clinton said "global inequalities fueled violence and the United States and other wealthy countries had to do more to combat poverty, AIDS and environmental issues such as global warming."

Right.... if we, who work hard for our living, will just take half our income and give to people in other countries who try every way they can to destroy us..... and if we would only happily co-exist with and embrace the populations whose life-styles endanger us all..... and if we support the PC environmentalists who seek to take away any private rights we now have......

Puke!!!!!

So there you have it: clinton pretty much said the same thing the prince said.... you know, the one whose money Giuliani refused because he inferred that 9/11 was our own fault?

[Godfollow]

Oh, so now he's Mr. Can't We All Just Get Along.... This man has no grasp of reality as viewed from a well mind. He's SICK WILLIE!!!!!

[Octavius]

Well maybe if they would install some decent forms of government they wouldn't be so screwed up!
Try freedom of religion to start with!!!

[Ohioan]

Clinton has once again carried water for the far left. Global inequalities have never had anything to do with the war on civilization. The war on civilization is always engineered by crackpots and warped individuals rebelling against their own prosperous affluent classes. (Marx, Lenin and bin Laden, were all raised in affluence.) They simply use the impoverished for cannon fodder, much as Clinton and Gore used them for robot voters.

It was in large measure to give the lie to just this nonsense, that I have now posted WAR 2001--The Shortest, Surest Path To Victory.

All of Socialist thought is premised on lies. Clinton is loved in those circles, because he was and is so skilled a liar.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[FITZ]

Yes what we need is global capitalism and democracy. We need people to have our Judeo-Christian values and civilization so they can have some hopes of succeeding in life.

[liberalism=failure]

Typical neomarxist crap-- oppressed people (non whites) only behave badly because they don't have money and someone else does.

WRONG!!! This is about Islam--a murderous JIHAD endorsing religion which tells its people to wipe out all non-Muslims. And that's what they're trying to do. Money ain't got sh*t to do with it.

[Silverdrake]

By withdrawing from the accord, Bush removed the world's biggest economy and the emitter of one quarter of the globe's man-made greenhouse gases, from a system based on countries of the world acting in concert.

The "greenhouse gasses" this talks about include both water vapor and the methane produced by cattle farts. Nor do any of these spin-freaks ever bother to mention that the US is also a negative net carbon dioxide producer, because of the amount consumed by agriculture and major reforestation projects.

Not to mention that it's the "short-sighted selfishness" that makes us wealthy enough to do something about AIDS, poverty, and everything else.

Same old Clinton. Bitch, bitch, bitch. Whine, whine, whine.