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  • Ex-Clinton aide reveals Bill lost the nuclear codes

    03/15/2003 8:58:30 AM PST · by GeneD · 212 replies · 1,644+ views
    U. S. News and World Report ^ | 03/15/2003 | Paul Bedard
    Former President Clinton lost the codes to nuclear war the day the Monica Lewinsky affair broke, was MIA in the fall of 1998 when a decision was needed on the killing of Osama bin Laden, and was "too busy watching a golf match" to OK a 1996 bombing mission in Iraq, says a blockbuster new book by Clinton's former military aide. Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, who carried the nuclear "football" from May 1996 to May 1998, crosses a line no other "mil aide" has before in condemning his commander in chief in Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How...
  • Albright: Bush Should Hold Off on Iraq

    03/03/2003 2:03:27 PM PST · by GeneD · 70 replies · 369+ views
    WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urged President Bush on Monday to wait longer before attacking Iraq, saying current pressure was forcing Baghdad to disarm. Albright, who addressed a conference on increasing the number of women in politics, said the buildup of military force in the Middle East has led to new inspections and Iraq's decision to dismantle its outlawed Al Samoud 2 missiles. "We are actually accomplishing something," said Albright, secretary of state under President Clinton. "The president should take credit for the fact they are disarming." As an alternative to war, she suggested more intrusive inspections...
  • National sexuality resource center opens in San Francisco

    02/20/2003 5:01:42 PM PST · by GeneD · 12 replies · 238+ views
    AP via SFGate.com ^ | 02/20/2003 | Ron Harris
    <p>The National Sexuality Resource Center threw open its doors Thursday, with the goal of replacing myths about sex with evidence-based research on sexual health, education and rights.</p> <p>"We see this as a major effort to try to depoliticize sexuality. To make an attempt to try and break through the fear, the shame and the silence surrounding sexuality," said Dr. Gilbert Herdt, the center's director and co-founder.</p>
  • Clinton to Speak at Symphony Performance

    02/11/2003 1:34:28 PM PST · by GeneD · 14 replies · 215+ views
    AP via Lycos.com ^ | 02/11/2003
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton will debut with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra on the March 25 program "Let Freedom Ring," a celebration of the American spirit that pays tribute to the seven Columbia astronauts. Clinton will narrate Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait," which includes excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln, and will narrate "Let Freedom Ring," Alexander Miller's symphonic setting of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. The orchestra will perform Gustav Holst's "Jupiter," the fourth movement of Holst's seven-movement suite "The Planets," to honor the astronauts who died when the space...
  • Abolish the State of the Union Speech

    01/28/2003 2:11:32 PM PST · by GeneD · 10 replies · 198+ views
    Bloomberg.com ^ | 01/28/2003 | Andrew Ferguson
    <p>Washington, Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- ``Big themes'' was the ominous phrase White House spokesman Ari Fleischer used last week to describe this year's State of the Union speech.</p> <p>Charlie Black, a Republican consultant, sounded even more ominous: ``It will all go underneath a big umbrella theme,'' he told the Washington Post.</p>
  • Anti-War Group Revives 'Daisy' Ad

    01/15/2003 5:25:00 PM PST · by GeneD · 44 replies · 549+ views
    AP via Lycos.com ^ | 01/15/2003
    Revisiting a jarring television commercial from the Cold War era, a grass-roots anti-war group has remade the 1964 "Daisy" ad, warning that a war against Iraq could spark nuclear Armageddon. Like the original, the 30-second ad by the Internet-based group MoveOn.org depicts a girl plucking petals from a daisy -- along with a missile launch countdown and a nuclear mushroom cloud. The original ad was produced by President Johnson's campaign to paint his Republican rival, Barry Goldwater, as an extremist who might lead the United States to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The ad created such negative reaction...
  • Richardson: N. Korean Pledges No Nuke Weapons

    01/11/2003 11:07:57 AM PST · by GeneD · 66 replies · 638+ views
    SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) - U.S. diplomatic trouble-shooter Bill Richardson ended three-days of talks with a senior North Korean official on Saturday with a pledge the reclusive communist state will not develop nuclear weapons. Richardson, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and now the Democratic governor of New Mexico, said he now had hopes rising tensions could be solved peacefully through diplomacy. "The North Koreans told me that they don't plan to build nuclear weapons and I took that as a positive statement," Richardson told reporters after concluding almost nine hours of talks since Thursday with Han Song Ryol,...
  • Two Crises, No Back Burner

    12/31/2002 11:27:18 AM PST · by GeneD · 6 replies · 179+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | 12/31/2002 | Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Robert L. Gallucci
    The rapid escalation of the nuclear issue by North Korea -- at a critical moment in our confrontation with Iraq -- requires that we deal with both developing crises at once. There are no safe back burners.... We face a challenging moment, with a great deal at stake both in Iraq and North Korea. The future of each lies in the hands of its leaders -- but we can shape their choices. We cannot deal with one now and wait to deal with the other later. Firmness is essential, but rigidity is likely to drive our allies away from us,...
  • AIDS Is Not a Death Sentence [Calling Dr. Clinton! Calling Dr. Clinton!]

    11/30/2002 5:43:47 PM PST · by GeneD · 31 replies · 374+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 11/30/2002 (for editions of 12/1/2002) | Dr. William Jefferson Clinton
    Historians will look back on our time and see that our civilization spends many millions of dollars educating people about the scourge of H.I.V. and AIDS, which has already taken 25 million lives and could infect 100 million people over the next eight years. But what they will find not so civilized is our failure to treat 95 percent of people with the disease. Given that medicine can turn AIDS from a death sentence into a chronic illness and reduce mother-to-child transmission, our withholding of treatment will appear to future historians as medieval, like bloodletting. Consider that there are close...
  • Abortion Rights Backers Show Alarm

    11/07/2002 2:21:10 PM PST · by GeneD · 96 replies · 623+ views
    The Republican takeover of the Senate, a result of crucial victories by candidates opposed to abortion, has set off cautious celebration among anti-abortion activists and alarm bells in the opposing camp. ``The threat to choice is greater today than it has been in decades,'' said Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. NARAL and its allies spent millions of dollars in the closing weeks of the campaign supporting Democrats for Senate who favor abortion rights against Republicans who oppose them. But in the five most closely contested of these races -- Colorado, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri...
  • Mixed Results for Clinton Officials

    11/06/2002 1:24:08 PM PST · by GeneD · 19 replies · 289+ views
    Filed at 3:56 p.m. ET Clinton administration veterans grabbed New Mexico's governorship and an Illinois House seat, but four others went down to defeat, closing out an election year that once saw about a dozen Clinton alumni bidding for elective office. In New Mexico, former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson overwhelmingly defeated Republican John Sanchez and will become the state's first Hispanic governor in two decades. In Illinois, former Clinton aide Rahm Emanuel won the 5th District seat in Chicago vacated by Rod Blagojevich, who was elected governor. There, though, the Clinton aides' victories on Tuesday came to a halt. Perhaps...
  • Anti-War Web Site Boosts Democrats

    10/18/2002 3:11:15 PM PDT · by GeneD · 3 replies · 272+ views
    Filed at 5:50 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats who cast what some considered a politically risky vote -- opposing the resolution authorizing use of force against Iraq -- are getting a financial reward for their troubles. MoveOnPAC.org, an Internet site, raised more than $1 million this week for four members of Congress that the group calls ``heroes.'' The biggest recipient is Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., who hauled in nearly $600,000 after the MoveOn Web site started soliciting donations on Monday, said Wes Boyd, who co-founded the San Francisco-based site and serves as treasurer of its political action committee. Democratic...
  • North Korea Admits Nuclear Weapons Program

    10/16/2002 4:42:48 PM PDT · by Brytani · 345 replies · 697+ views
    Fox News | 10/16/02 | Brytani
    Breaking News on Fox Fox has just confirmed North Korea has admitted to the United States that they have a secret nuclear weapons program. This breaks a treaty signed with the Clinton Administration, in exchange for N. Korea not having nuclear weapons, the US agreed to build non-lethal nuclear plants for them. Once again, Clinton's treaties turn out to be worth as much as his word.
  • We Can Outmaneuver Saddam Hussein

    10/03/2002 5:23:53 AM PDT · by GeneD · 2 replies · 232+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | 10/3/02 | Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger
    ...The threat posed by the Iraqi regime is real. Of greatest concern is the prospect of a nuclear Iraq, which would fundamentally alter the dynamic in a strategically important region. It could embolden Hussein to believe that because of his nuclear capability, if he renewed his quest for regional dominance, we would hesitate. That is strategically unacceptable to us. Doing nothing is not an option. But neither is failing to seek the broadest possible international support. We don't have time to waste, but we do have time to try to outmaneuver Hussein before we have to outmuscle him.... We reserve...
  • Clinton Favors U.N. Backing on Iraq

    09/27/2002 5:23:56 AM PDT · by GeneD · 2 replies · 171+ views
    Filed at 8:04 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former President Clinton said Friday he favors getting United Nations backing for the use of force, if necessary, to disarm Iraq's President Saddam Hussein. ``He's got a very dangerous (weapons) program. We need to eliminate it,'' Clinton said on ABC's ``Good Morning America.'' Interviewed from Africa where he is on tour, the former president said, ``I think we ought to go to the United Nations. I think we ought to get a tough resolution which basically says we'll take Saddam Hussein up on his commitment to free and unfettered inspections.'' ``If he...
  • Oliver North Tells a Tall Tale of White House Intrigue

    08/26/2002 4:42:25 PM PDT · by GeneD · 1 replies · 441+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 8/26/02 (for editions of 8/27/02) | Philip Shenon
    BLUEMONT, Va. — Back when he was at the red-hot, klieg-lighted center of the worst political scandal in a generation, Lt. Col. Oliver L. North was accused more than once of mixing a little fiction in with his facts. So perhaps there's a little justice for Mr. North, now a conservative radio talk-show host and the capital's newest celebrity novelist, in writing a Washington thriller that mixes a few uncomfortable facts in with his fiction. "I'm not trying to settle any scores," insisted Mr. North, who at 58 is only a little grayer and a little thicker than when he...
  • The Imperfect Candidate: Reno Appears To Have Learned Little From Her Old Boss

    08/09/2002 3:46:55 PM PDT · by GeneD · 7 replies · 263+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | 8/9/02 | Terry M. Neal
    ...She is an uninspiring campaigner, pathetic fundraiser, and outcast from the party leadership. But she is — as her campaign press secretary puts it — "a rock star" who attracts free press. She's leading Democratic primary polls, when all indications say she shouldn't be. The question for the Democratic party is whether this rock star candidate can perform as well against the incumbent governor — who is a fundraising machine and the son and brother of presidents. Welcome to the strange gubernatorial campaign of Janet Reno....
  • Clintons Want Money Back: Bill and Hillary Asking to Be Reimbursed for Whitewater Probe

    07/26/2002 6:31:26 PM PDT · by GeneD · 162 replies · 1,234+ views
    ABCNews.com ^ | 7/26/02 | Jackie Judd
    WASHINGTON, July 26 — Bill and Hillary Clinton are asking the government to reimburse them for about $3.5 million in legal fees stemming from the independent counsel investigation of the Whitewater land deal, ABCNEWS has learned. The Clintons racked up about $11 million in legal bills for Whitewater and other investigations during their time in the White House. Their legal defense fund paid about $7 million. So, if their request for reimbursement is successful, the Clintons would end up paying very little out of pocket themselves. Under the law, those who are investigated but not indicted have the right to...
  • Clinton bashes Bush for lack of focus on AIDS

    07/24/2002 11:03:08 AM PDT · by GeneD · 74 replies · 378+ views
    The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 7/24/02 | Kate N. Grossman
    Former President Bill Clinton took several swipes here Tuesday at the Bush administration for focusing on the war against terrorism at the expense of the deepening AIDS epidemic. "I'm all for fighting in Afghanistan . . . but no one believes that we can build a safe world just by preventing and punishing bad things," Clinton said at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's annual convention. "We have to make some good things happen." Clinton also talked about the choices confronting a former president over the role he should play in his post-White House years. A former president can either "be a has-been...
  • Wen Ho Lee Book Moves a Little Closer (Maybe)

    07/10/2002 11:31:32 AM PDT · by GeneD · 3 replies · 273+ views
    D.C. attorney Mark Zaid reports that the review process for Encounter's book by Wen Ho Lee whistleblower No Trulock could be coming to a close. All but one of the government agencies who've been gumming up publication--we mean reviewing the manuscript--have now finished, and will soon meet with the author. The representatives of the agencies and Trulock will try to agree on what needs to be changed or excised so that national security could be preserved (the government's argument) or the appropriate rear ends could be covered (Encounter's words, paraphrased). If they don't work it out, there's still the possibility...