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Bush Chooses Clinton for East Timor Mission
USA Today ^ | 05/06/2002 | Bill Nichols

Posted on 05/07/2002 5:45:36 AM PDT by TonyInOhio

Edited on 04/13/2004 1:39:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; clinton; clintonlegacy; diplomacy; easttimor; x42
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To: TonyInOhio
This is disgusting. Bush is a half-wit for doing this. The Clintons need to be hounded to perdition. This is a slap in the face of the entire USA, but Bush is too dumb to realize that he's insulting us all.
361 posted on 05/08/2002 5:13:44 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely
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To: Marysecretary
That's the kind of cheap rationalization and lame excuse making that got us the Clintons in the first place.
362 posted on 05/08/2002 5:16:50 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely
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To: jimt
...and at the same time avoid sending Clinton to a higher-profile event that might stir resentment within Bush's conservative base.

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Bush believes he can displace conservatives with Mexican illegals. Conxervatives are no longer a concern.

363 posted on 05/08/2002 5:54:03 PM PDT by RLK
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To: Uncle Bill
Good to see you're around, dude!
364 posted on 05/08/2002 7:06:27 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Senator Pardek
Hello Senator. Hope all is well. They could get a real compassionate team thing going here.

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365 posted on 05/08/2002 8:41:03 PM PDT by Uncle Bill
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To: Uncle Bill
You rock UB.
366 posted on 05/08/2002 9:29:58 PM PDT by nunya bidness
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To: Mortimer Snavely
I think God gave us the Clintons to each us a valuable lesson. Have we learned it yet??????
367 posted on 05/09/2002 6:47:35 AM PDT by Marysecretary
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To: nunya bidness
Thanks nunya. bump!
368 posted on 05/09/2002 8:12:57 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
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To: Marysecretary
The lesson of the Cintons is that unless they are refuted and confronted at every turn, the Left will grab as much power as they can. Being nice doesn't make a dent. People like the Clintons are restrained only by the ability of their victims to resist.

Singing hymns won't solve the problem. Speaking in tongues won't solve the problem. Merely preaching Jesus won't solve the problem. Voting for the candidate who says the nicest things about Christianity has made the problem worse. Bush won the election and refuses to confront the liberal-socialist axis. He refuses to confront and repudiate Arafat. And so on.

Until the Evangelical Church realizes that freedom is the product of dreary, tedious, difficult, exacting, demanding, dispassionate, human thought, and not giddy, adolescent, religious enthusiasm, until the Evangelicals start reading stuff deeper and more substantive than Hal Lindsey and Pat Robertson, until they start thinking clearly, analyzing coldly, and realize that grinning, affable, bland idiocy is not the way to turn the country around, they will continue, through their intellectual sloth, to enable the Clintons and Sharptons and the rest of them to turn this country into a third world police state outhouse.

369 posted on 05/09/2002 2:54:55 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely
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To: BeAChooser
The same reason you have to be black to be “African.” Tradition and raw statistics, I guess

Maybe it's just me, but when a person uses the word "have" in the sense above, it denotes a NECESSITY. So I repeat, you don't HAVE to be black to be African, just like you don't HAVE to be white to be Western. If words mean anything, you clearly said that in the same way that there is a necessity requiring one to be black to be African, "the same reason" obtains requiring one to be white to be Western. Those are your words.

370 posted on 05/09/2002 9:41:42 PM PDT by CaptBlack
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372 posted on 05/09/2002 10:11:55 PM PDT by Pagey
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To: CaptBlack
The same reason you have to be black to be “African.” Tradition and raw statistics, I guess

I didn't post this comment. You must be responding to someone else.

373 posted on 05/09/2002 10:21:56 PM PDT by BeAChooser
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To: Mortimer Snavely; RLK
"Administration officials say the motivation to send Clinton was to convey a message of "no hard feelings" toward his administration."

No hard feelings? Shut the whole government down!!

374 posted on 05/10/2002 3:37:31 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
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To: Mortimer Snavely
I agree with you, Mortimer, but the Bible does tell us that God puts people into power and I do believe that he put the Clintons in there to wake us up. He gave Israel Saul as a King and look what happened there. They wanted a king and he let them have it. The Americans wanted somebody like Clinton who was slick and said what they wanted to hear--he tickled their ears, so to speak. Yes, we need to vote for the people who are best for the job. Bush isn't perfect but look at the alternative. Another 4 to 8 years of democrats would have put this country in such a hole it would never get out. I'm not convinced we ever will anyway but at least we have someone in the WH who is decent, hard working and has integrity. I don't agree with some of his decisions but then I'm not there so I don't know what goes on behind closed doors. I hate politics!
375 posted on 05/10/2002 8:26:15 AM PDT by Marysecretary
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To: Marysecretary
If you voted for Bush, you voted for a Democrat under another name.

I occasionally post the following due to the adulation Bush receives around here:

The following are excerpts from a March 23, 2002 Washington Times piece by Bill Sammon.

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"MONTERREY, Mexico: ----- ------- yesterday said Americans are duty-bound to 'share our wealth' with poor nations and promised a 50 percent increase in foreign aid, but 'We should give more of our aid in the form of grants, rather than loans that can never be repaid,' he said. 'We should invest in better health and build on our efforts to fight AIDS, which threatens to undermine whole societies.'

"In addition to the moral, economic and strategic imperatives of increasing foreign aid, ----- ------- said, it could also help in the war against terrorism.

"'We will challenge the poverty and hopelessness and lack of education and failed governments that too often allow conditions that terrorists can seize and try to turn to their advantage.'"

Here's a small political quiz. Who is quoted above?

a) George McGovern
b) Bill Clinton
c) Al Gore
d) Al Sharpton
e) Jesse Jackson
f ) Ted Kennedy
g) George W. Bush

Hint: He's very popular here at Free Republic.

376 posted on 05/10/2002 1:54:43 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely
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To: Uncle Bill
I wish Bush would just go back to his ranch tomorrow and throw big Texas-sized barbeques for the rest of his life. His forté is being unconditionally hospitable. This is usually a good thing in private life, but in world affairs it tends to cause confusion in enemy identification.
377 posted on 05/10/2002 2:00:12 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely
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To: Mortimer Snavely
Hi Mortimer. Hope all is well with you. Smoking the peacepipe with traitor Clinton pays such dividends.

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You're not going to screw with
that deal letting me off the hook
Robert Ray promised me, right?
No, we'll move on. Heck, thanks.
What about Hillary? We'll help when we can.
Thanks. She'd make a good president George.
Laura likes her.


378 posted on 05/10/2002 3:20:35 PM PDT by Uncle Bill
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To: Uncle Bill
Thank you for your concern for my well being. It came at an interesting time, and provides an opportunity for an illustrating anecdote.

The other day I was bitten by a loose pit bull. I thought he was just sniffing my leg, and he was indeed, but then gave me a distinct nibble, bruising and breaking the skin, drawing a little blood. Nothing serious, no more painful or harmful than being pinched hard with a pair of pliers, and evidence that this is not a vicious dog. He could have taken a large piece of my leg home as a chew toy.

An animal control officer luckily came by looking for the same animal, and I flagged him down and reported the incident. At the same time the owner came by looking for his dog, and was informed by the dog catcher that it would have to be quarantined. At this the owner burst into a torrent of indignation and foul language, complaining of expense. Mind you, he said nothing to me in apology or even in concern, not the bare minimum of civility. He stormed off in high dudgeon, effing and blinding about expense, inferring that the city and I were persecuting him.

He reminded me instantly of the Clintons and their supporters: "I have caused harm to someone and am so the victim. Stop persecuting me or else."

No discussion or reasoning or negotiation is possible with such people. Any attempt to reach any agreement with them bestows credibility upon them. Since they do not respond to any sense of personal responsibility, since they essentially have no conscience, they can only be coerced into behaving as decent human beings. This is why I am mightily PO'ed about Bush and his dealings with the Clintons and others. By giving them the time of day, he is giving them respectability. Arafat and Clinton are the best examples of this. Bush has made them respectable again, at the very time they should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

By the way, the owner of the dog was tracked down, and the dog was caught and is now in quarantine. I don't have to get rabies shots. Hooray.

379 posted on 05/10/2002 3:54:19 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely
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To: Mortimer Snavely; RLK; Askel5
Thank goodness you're ok! The owner of the dog sounds like an ambassador for Victims of the world, Unite! Stupid butt! The country is going insane.

POOR BILL

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"I think you're wrong because after about two years of working on this, you know, on and off, I think the President, that the teenage culture caused the President's behavior, in the way he behaved, in, with the oral sex."
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Note: Bill Clinton - Victim of Women!

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"B/S, Mr Bush. Clinton is a criminal and a traitor. We demand a thorough investigation and prosecution. Our Republic is dead and our liberty is at stake if the next administration does not clean up this mess for now and forever more. Corrupt politicians must pay the price for subverting our Constitution and using their offices for personal gain."
4 Posted on 01/20/2000 14:17:56 PST by Jim Robinson

380 posted on 05/10/2002 7:09:22 PM PDT by Uncle Bill
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