Clinton: To Stop Terrorism, West Must Share its Wealth

NewsMax | Tuesday December 18, 2001 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[truther]

Clinton: To Stop Terrorism, West Must Share its Wealth

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.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

He should tell those 3000 or 4000 Saudi oil princes to share their billions with the Arab poor. Charity begins at home.

[Revolting cat!]

Scumbag has a knock for sensing what goes well with a particular audience and his circle of supporters. He's the ultimate Toastmasters champion; he can talk on end without understanding a word or meaning anything he says. He ain't no Communist like Evita. It's actually worse than that - it's his guiltridden, overfed, shallow white audience that wants to hear such claptrap. Scumbag himself is just another confidence man. An appetite inside a suit, somebody described him recently (although it was his future buddy JJ who first observed this during the 1992 campaign.)