Posted on 12/17/2001 9:59:12 PM PST by truther
Last month Bill Clinton told a Georgetown University audience that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were the fault of U.S. slavery and mistreatment of the American Indian.
Now he's changed his tune, downplaying the slavery angle in favor of a new justification for Osama bin Laden's 9/11 kamikaze hit squad: The West won't share its wealth with an impoverished third world.
On Thursday Clinton appeared before the Richard Dimbley lecture series in Warwick, Great Britain to give an address he titled "The Struggle for the Soul of the 21st Century."
Some highlights:
"It was exactly a year ago today, near the end of my tenure as President, on my final trip overseas, that I went to Warwick University with Tony Blair to deliver a speech.....
"On that day a year ago, I said 'we have seen how abject poverty accelerates conflict, how it creates recruits for terrorists and those who incite ethnic and religious hatred, how it fuels a violent rejection of the economic and social order on which our future depends'.
"The world has now witnessed a tragic, graphic illustration of that new reality, one that, as Mr Dimbleby implied, has made a lot of people rethink their rosy projections for this new century.....
"We in the wealthy countries have to spread the benefits of the 21st century world and reduce the risks so we can make more partners and fewer terrorists in the future."
Clinton continued:
"September 11th was the dark side of this new age of global interdependence.... If you don't want to live with barbed wire around your children and grandchildren for the next hundred years, then it's not enough to defeat the terrorist.
"We have to make a world where there are far fewer terrorists, where there are fewer potential terrorists and more partners. And that responsibility falls primarily upon the wealthy nations, to spread the benefits and shrink the burdens."
A transcript of Clinton's remarks was made available by the BBC.
SOB.
He certainly doesn't mind speaking ill of his own country, does he?
But, then, he never did.
THIS IS THE FINAL SOLUTION, PEOPLE!
When everyone is equally destitute, "Social Justice" Will Be Achieved!
Then, of course, the entire human race will die of starvation because all the productive people will have been massacred or imprisoned in order to achieve this.
But why bother to argue over trifling details.
I promise to my hands off of their desert if they keep their hands out of my pockets.
This is a false mantra that the left has been bleating: bring them out of poverty and they won't hate us anymore. If they would rise up against their oppressors, they would have more $$$ and more freedom. Tell Saddam or any of the princes to put some of the money intended for the next palace or two into the hands of their poor instead.
Although some of "us" (Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Ross Perot) will be "more equal" than others...
They will be our new benevolent global dictators and will therefore be exempt.
But, he is running for Sec. General - why else would Hillary run for the Senate in NY?? Besides, the job is the closest thing to being King of the world - which what he wants anyway.
No, Mr. former disgraced POTUS. You protect the citizens of a free society by putting barbed wire around those who would harm them. We should start by putting barbed wire around you for what you have done, and continue to do, in attempting to destroy the defenses of this country. IMO, you are a traitor who is doing more, much more, damage to the US than Bin Laden supporter John Walker, the other John Walker, Hanssen, and Ames combined.
The thought leaves a knot in my stomach, but I think you're right.
Even in (slightly-poorer) EU nations like Spain, groups like the Basque separatist ETA abound - and not motivated by "poverty."
Why not start with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain then? Seeing as how the Gulf States account for approximately 1/4 of all credit lending to financial institutions on earth. As the saying goes, charity begins at home.
His comments were condescending and uncalled for. And whats worse, show a complete of understanding of the politics of people like bin Laden.
Give a terrorist half of your assets and he will TAKE the other half .
"Has that clinton "legacy" made you feel safer yet?"
The Holiday *Best* of Bill Clinton & his Friends!
-clintonism in one easy lesson--
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