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Will Saletan has another example of something Maureen Dowd has also mentioned in the past - that the Bush administration tried to increase the levels of arsenic in the drinking water. Who repeated that hoary old canard? None other than former president Bill Clinton at the Iowa State Fair, saying that the Republicans "tried to put more arsenic in the water." He knows that it was his administration that delayed new, tighter arsenic standards for eight years, and that all the incoming Bush administration did was to review the last-minute directives from the Clinton White House, before enforcing a standard...

Stung by reports that North Korea has failed to abandon its nuclear weapons program as part of a 1994 deal negotiated by his administration, ex-President Bill Clinton revealed this week that he threatened the rogue nation with war in order to get them to comply. In remarks that went completely unreported by the mainstream press, Clinton told an audience at the University of California's Davis campus last Sunday that eight years ago, "we literally threatened to attack and planned to attack North Korea if they didn't end their nuclear weapons program." Clinton seemed anxious to minimize his administration's North Korean...

Stung by reports that North Korea has failed to abandon its nuclear weapons program as part of a 1994 deal negotiated by his administration, ex-President Bill Clinton revealed last week that he threatened the rogue nation with war in order to get them to comply. In remarks that went completely unreported by the mainstream press, Clinton told an audience at the University of California's Davis campus last Sunday that eight years ago, "we literally threatened to attack and planned to attack North Korea if they didn't end their nuclear weapons program." Clinton seemed anxious to minimize his administration's North Korean...