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Two points. First, I never gave a hoot whether Catholicguy engaged me in discussion--mainly because his idea of civilized discourse was to hurl verbal bombs. The idea that he "afforded me an opportunity to voice" my opinions is silly on the surface. He was not in charge of this site and had nothing to do with what I said. In fact, he often crossed the line with vicious ad hominem attacks and I'm glad he's history.

Second, it's easy to blame Bubba for the present international messes since he was too busy with Monica to look after national security. For example, there are numerous documents from Sudanese intelligence officials that show they offered Bubba information on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. Unfortunately, he wasn't the least bit interested. It was Bubba, too, who gave North Korea the technology to build light water nuclear reactors in exchange for a promise to behave. It was also Bubba who gave our long range missile launch secrets to China in return for campaign contributions--an act tantamount to treason. The truth is, Bubba never did anything on his watch but kick the can forward--i.e., pass problems onto other administrations to deal with. His was the presidency, remember, that denied our troops protective cover in Somalia--and his was the presidency that turned-tail in the face of the mighty Haitians. It was Bubba also who allowed Iraq to kick out inspectors with impunity and to proceed to build up its store of weapons of mass destruction. So give me a break. Clinton's presidency was not only corrupt, it was absolutely inept and some think even treasonous.

Second, it's easy to blame Bubba for the present international messes since he was too busy with Monica to look after national security.

No one bears more blame for 9/11 and our deplorable world vulnerabilities than Bill Clinton. In short order, he 1) sold out our nuclear secrets to China; 2) appeased Saddam Hussein by completely giving up on the inspections process; 3) ordered pinprick operations against Osama bin Laden, for domestic political consumption only, while letting the madman organize and prepare 9/11 (and failed to identify and fight true evil); 4) entered into a paper-only appeasement agreement with North Korea, and was stupid enough to trust the North Koreans (or more likely, didn't, but just foisted the problem to the next president). We are in grave danger today because of Bill Clinton. He was the most feckless and cowardly president we've had in my lifetime. It does indeed border on treason.