Bill Clinton's Legacy...

The Iconoclast ^ | February 13, 2003 | Murray Soupcoff (The Iconoclast)

[Apolitical]

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Bill Clinton's Legacy....



February 13, 2003: Hey, we don't usually post to this feature more than once a day. But today's an exception. If you're going to read only one thing today, make sure it's the latest opinion piece from wise Washington pundit Charles Krauthammer. It's called Bracing for the Apocalypse, and it describes in scary detail the real legacy left by America's most undistinguished political procrastinator and First Felon, William Jefferson Clinton.

Here's just a sampling of what Charles Krauthammer has to say today:

You don't get to a place like this overnight. It takes at least, oh, a decade. We are now paying the wages of the 1990s, our holiday from history. During that decade, every major challenge to America was deferred. The chief aim of the Clinton administration was to make sure that nothing terrible happened on its watch. Accordingly, every can was kicked down the road:

--Iraq: Saddam continued defying the world and building his arsenal, even as the United States acquiesced to the progressive weakening of U.N. sanctions and then to the expulsion of all weapons inspectors.

--North Korea: When it threatened to go nuclear in 1993, Clinton managed to put off the reckoning with an agreement to freeze Pyongyang's program. The agreement--surprise!--was a fraud. All the time, the North Koreans were clandestinely enriching uranium. They are now in full nuclear breakout.

--Terrorism: The first World Trade Center attack occurred in 1993, followed by the blowing up of two embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole. Treating terrorism as a problem of law enforcement, Clinton dispatched the FBI--and the odd cruise missile to ostentatiously kick up some desert sand. Osama was offered up by Sudan in 1996. We turned him away for lack of legal justification.

That is how one acts on holiday: Mortal enemies are dealt with not as combatants, but as defendants. Clinton flattered himself as looking beyond such mundane problems to a grander transnational vision (global warming, migration and the like), while dispatching American military might to quell ``teacup wars'' in places like Bosnia. On June 19, 2000, the Clinton administration solved the rogue-state problem by abolishing the term and replacing it with ``states of concern.'' Unconcerned, the rogues prospered, arming and girding themselves for big wars.

Which are now upon us. On Sept. 11, the cozy illusions and stupid pretensions died. We now recognize the central problem of the 21st century: the conjunction of terrorism, rogue states and weapons of mass destruction.

Of course, according to the latest Clintonist spin, everything that could be done to stop terrorist actions was done after the Word Trade Center and 1998 embassy bombings. For example, according to Madeleine Albright, "We consumed all the intelligence we had. It's so easy to finger-point. [But] we tried everything we could."

Yet General Henry Shelton, retired chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, was also quoted as saying after 9/11: "Absolutely nothing prevented us from running the kind of [anti-terrorist] operation we're running now, if there had been a commitment to do that."

In fact, on several occasions, Bill Clinton refused to consider any military action against the al Qaeda terrorist network. Of course, according to the Great Prevaricator, that was because of all the bad advice he got from his national security team, who believed that a few verbal darts from the President would be enough to do the trick.

On the other hand, when the delicate matter of that stained blue dress threatened to get splashed all over the front pages of even the most friendly American newspapers, Mr. Clinton wasn't adverse to lobbing a few missiles at some abandoned tents in the middle of the Afghanistan desert, or bombing Sudan's only pharmaceutical factory (mistakenly identified as a chemical weapons factory by more of those unnamed "others" who have conspired to mislead the Clintons throughout their long history of "unintended" misdeeds).

Finally, as the piece de resistance of our little trip down Clinton memory lane, it's necessary to again bring up that pivotal time in 1996, as reported in the Los Angeles Times, when Yemen offered to extradite Osama Bin Laden to the United States and the Clinton administration politely declined the offer. Ooops! On whom do we blame this mammoth miscue?

Well, as it happens we are told, once again the all-knowing Bill was tripped up by the advice of yet another bumbling lackey, this time National Security Advisor Sandy Berger who evidently felt that the United States did not have enough evidence to convict Mr. Bin Laden in a U.S. court of law. Many thanks, Sandy, for your legal acumen, from all the occupants of the World Trade Centre on September 11th................

[Apolitical]

Charles Krauthammer has become the sage of American political wisdom. Too bad, the trendy glitterati have no use for him. They prefer the wisdom of Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.

[pabianice]

History is busy scraping the Clinton Legacy off the sole of its boot...

[Seeking the truth]

These were real popular at CPAC.

The Clinton Legacy (Vinyl or Magnetic Bumper Sticker or License Plate)

[NYC GOP Chick]

THIS is the Clinton Legacy:

[latrans]

Tell it like it is Charles! I love the part where Madeline
Notbright says (paraphrasing) "We did what we could". Yea.

[MrConfettiMan]

During that decade, every major challenge to America was deferred. The chief aim of the Clinton administration was to make sure that nothing terrible happened on its watch. Accordingly, every can was kicked down the road.

Hi, Gene. Sorry I never got a chance to stop by at CPAC. Would've been great to have seen everybody.

[HELLRAISER II]

And here I thought I saw Clinton's legacy coming out the back end of my Bull.

[SAMWolf]

Bump!

[tom paine 2]

"Until Clintonese is only spoken in hell"

[dixiechick2000]

Krauthammer bump!

[Ditter]

Thanks!

[DLfromthedesert]

This is what happens when one is so narcissistic that he spends his time contemplating his legacy instead of doing his JOB!!!

[2timothy3.16]

The clinton/reno legacyLord, God, Creator of all things, please forgive us.

[wayoverontheright]

During that decade, every major challenge to America was deferred. The chief aim of the Clinton administration was to make sure that nothing terrible happened on its watch. Accordingly, every can was kicked down the road:

Makes one wonder about Oklahoma City and TWA Flt 800, does it not?

[2timothy3.16]

Transcript from an actual phone call between FBI hostage negotiator Jim Cavanaugh and one of the Branch Davidians small children......

(children crying . . . rustling sound as very young child picks up the phone) Child: "Are you gonna come and kill me?"
Cavanaugh: "Hello? hello? No, honey... " ( long pause then heavy sigh ).... "Nobody's gonna come and kill you....."

Child: "Are you gonna come in and kill me?"
Cavanaugh: "No..." (silence) " . . .no . . . nobody's comin'."

The kids beofre the reno justice dept rescued them

(children crying . . . rustling sound as very young child picks up the phone) Child: "Are you gonna come and kill me?"
Cavanaugh: "Hello? hello? No, honey... " ( long pause then heavy sigh ).... "Nobody's gonna come and kill you....."

Child: "Are you gonna come in and kill me?"

And after the reno jusice department rescued the kids.....

Oh how i pray the Lord can forgive us for standing by and letting this happen.

(children crying . . . rustling sound as very young child picks up the phone) Child: "Are you gonna come and kill me?"
Cavanaugh: "Hello? hello? No, honey... " ( long pause then heavy sigh ).... "Nobody's gonna come and kill you....."

Child: "Are you gonna come in and kill me?"
Cavanaugh: "No..." (silence) " . . .no . . . nobody's comin'."

[2timothy3.16]

The bastards in the press and the whores in politics care more about the terrorist than they ever did these kids.

May the Lord our God deal with them one day.

Republicans olympia snowe and susie collins joined with the likes of kennedy and biden in smiling, winking and saying "it's only about sex..."

The word of God tells us:

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: Hebrew 9:27

It comes close to streching the Christian to the limit of his endurance to even think about forgiving the clintons, their minions and their ilk. And as our men come home aboard hopital ships and in body bags it will become even more difficult, thank God He understands our weaknesses.

[2timothy3.16]

And the clintons were not content to just kill the kids, they had to kill any member of congress who couldn't turn the other check.

After breaking into tears,
Sonny Bono had to look away as testimony was given about the babies,
and the effects the gas had on them.

[2timothy3.16]

Gentlemen, take a minute to thank God that we have a Commander in Chief that is not preoccupied with pornography and the seduction and rape of girls young enough to be his daughter.

Thank God we have George Bush in the oval office and not bill clinton, jimmy carter, or al gore.

Thank God we have John Ashcroft as Attorney General and not the butcher of Waco, janet reno.

[ErnBatavia]

The Clinton Legacy Kit is currently selling well at Home Depot:

and

[uncbob]

He left out the USS Cole, the debacle in Samolia, the embassy bombing in Africa

But give the Slickster credit he conquered HAITI

The GOP spokesmen should be all over the place with these facts especially on the talk shows.


But let's not cut the wimped out GOP a break
They controlled congress since 94 and name me one GOP type that was all over Clinton on any of these issues . He brow beat them into silence

THE GOP controls the congress and the presidency but you don't see the dems rolling over and playing dead