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<p>On Monday, Mr. Clinton went on the offensive. "Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell," he told a symposium sponsored by Conference Board, a New York-based nonpartisan business research group.</p>

Hussein's legacy: blood, blunders Scholars say needless wars, Iraqis' suffering doomed 24-year reign04/13/2003 By GREGORY KATZ / The Dallas Morning News LONDON – Saddam Hussein could have stayed in power by cooperating completely with U.N. inspectors searching for banned weapons. He could have lived comfortably by accepting exile before the war began. But Mr. Hussein, skeptical to the end that American and British forces would invade, remained defiant, determined perhaps to make a heroic last stand that would solidify his place in the pantheon of Arab leaders, experts say. But history is not likely to be kind in judging the...

<p>Bill Clinton's trip to Port-au-Prince on Tuesday was supposed to be all about his Clinton Foundation's fight against AIDS. Haiti is indeed engaged in a brutal battle against the disease. Yet even so, locals didn't seem too happy to have the former president calling on Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Thoughtful policy types, Haitian and otherwise, who are interested in righting the capsized nation largely ignored the visit.</p>

San Juan, Apr 06, 2003 (EFE via COMTEX) -- The main challenge facing humanity is to create "a more united world, with greater benefits and fewer risks," former U.S. President Bill Clinton said during an appearance here. Clinton spoke Saturday evening at a conference organized by the Caribbean Council for Global Studies. "We need greater security," Clinton stressed at the conference, which focused on the threat posed by terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. "We've tried to avoid terrible massacres in Bosnia and Kosovo," he said, noting the need to achieve a global community "with common values and a shared...

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Mar 27, 2003 (The Daily Iowan, U-WIRE via COMTEX) -- Former President Clinton urged the public Wednesday night to set aside personal views and pull and pray for American troops fighting in Iraq. Clinton said he supports disarming Saddam Hussein and that he was in favor of the U.N. resolution that threatened forcible regime change if Saddam failed to comply, as well as the House and Senate resolutions authorizing President Bush to use force. "Saddam Hussein has never done anything, ever, if he didn't think he would be punished," Clinton said in his speech, "Embracing our Humanity:...

Chrétien’s Legacywritten by James Daly As the war against the butcher of Baghdad continues, Canada finds itself, as is usual these days, on the outside looking in. Welcome to the wonderful world of Jean Chrétien and his blessed legacy. To put it in broader international terms, Canada has been relegated to a third rate nation, ranking with or below such heavyweights as Poland, Slovakia and Mexico. This is all thanks to our embarrassingly emaciated armed forces and our blatantly anti-American Prime Minister. More alarmingly however, is that we have been reduced to little more than an annoyance to our...

<p>Ronald Reagan left a legacy that will grow with time. He settled the central contest of the 20th century by winning the Cold War. He modernized the U.S. military and restored its sense of pride after stalemate in Korea and fiasco in Vietnam. And the Strategic Defense Initiative program he announced 20 years ago today helped collapse the evil empire. President Reagan's economic and political pressure led to the end of the Warsaw Pact, freed the states of Eastern Europe, and caused the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its empire.</p>

--- Russia and France opposed this resolution and said they would veto it, because inspections are proceeding, weapons are being destroyed and there is therefore no need for a force ultimatum. Essentially they have decided Iraq presents no threat even if it never disarms, at least as long as inspectors are there. The veto threat did not help the diplomacy. It's too bad, because if a majority of the security council had adopted the Blair approach, Saddam would have had no room for further evasion and he still might have disarmed without invasion and bloodshed. Now, it appears that force...

Looking at the number of Communist organizations that oppose American action in Iraq jogged my memory about events that happened some 64 years ago - on September 29, 1939. Prior to that date, Hitler and Stalin had a series of quiet, de-facto agreements.Although the Nazis and the Communists attacked each other publicly, and although they waged a "surrogate combat" during the Spanish Civil War,both regimes traded extensively : German machinery for Russian grain, for example; and they exchanged intelligence on a regular basis.In 1939, the two nations took it a step further : entering a formal agreement called The German-Soviet...

They miss him still, you know, they really do. It was the 50th anniversary of Stalin’s death last Wednesday, and the Russian parliament spent the day happily debating a motion to turn Volgograd back into Stalingrad. An opinion poll reported that more than half the population thought that Uncle Joe had been a benefit to Russia. Here in Britain it is a pity that Stalin’s most devoted admirer, Christopher Hill, the Marxist historian and former master of Balliol college, Oxford, should have died nine days earlier. For he would surely have given us a second epitaph to rival his ringing...

Opinion: It is quite amusing of late to hear American liberal Democrat legislators (and even some rabid, extremist, socialist anti-Bush anti-war types) launch into lengthy and impassioned discussion about how terrible NORTH KOREA is and how we should deal instead with that regime!It is nothing more than a confusion tactic designed to distract attention and focus from the job at hand. As we know 1) Bill Clinton's legacy is responsible for the problem in North Korea; 2) these people are and have never been, at heart, anti-Communist nor pro-freedom.This is the heighth of charlatan insincerity. If you patrol the back...

Even now, after the details of Stalin's 20 million murders have become public, there is still a thirst for death among the fans of Josef Dzhugashvili. Yevgeny Dzhugashvil Take Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, Stalin's grandson by his first wife. Eking out an impoverished existence in a bare three-room flat in a crumbling block in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, he has no doubts about the great man's recipe for a better country were he alive today. "He would execute the leaders of Georgia and Russia because they are the enemies of the people," he said. "Look at what Stalin built and look how...

<p>A private University of Iowa fund will pay former President Bill Clinton $50,000 to speak on campus next month for the school's annual Distinguished Lecture.</p> <p>The former president plans to donate the money from UI's F. Wendall Miller Fund to AIDS research, members of the University Lecture Committee said Wednesday.</p>

Computer software allegedly removed MONTGOMERY | The attorney general’s office is looking into the alleged un-installation of dozens of operating systems and software programs in computers in Gov. Bob Riley’s office before the end of the Gov. Don Siegelman administration. “Every department’s computers were not operating, and it’s costing considerable amount of money to get operational," Riley said. Riley’s press secretary, David Azbell, confirmed Tuesday that Riley’s staff discovered at least two dozen inoperable computers in the suite of offices after/sRiley took over Jan. 20. Azbell said the governor’s office will have to spend at least $52,500 to replace computer...

<p>Six months ago, much of the world saw North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as a playboy terrorist. But after two days of cordial talks Oct. 23-25 with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright--the first American official Kim has ever met--the reclusive North Korean is suddenly projecting the image of a man the U.S. can do business with. During Albright's visit to Pyongyang, Kim and Albright spent many hours together--in discussions, at two dinners, and at a bombastic spectacle of 100,000 performers extolling the ideals of the Korean Workers' Party. As her visit ended, Albright suggested that Kim "pick up the phone anytime" he wanted to reach her. Kim responded: "Please give me your e-mail address."</p>

ICONOCLAST DAILY NOTEBOOK.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. PRESIDENT! February 6, 2003: Somewhere in the hazy fog of Alzheimers, distant faded memories of greater days must still flicker in the aging mind of America's most distinguished Cold Warrior, Ronald Reagan. The former President of the United States, and celebrated Great Communicator, is 92 years old today. But the cruel winds of time have cheated him of his most valued gifts, and he survives as a physical shadow of the great American leader he once was. Yet, on the occasion of this distinguished ex-President's 92nd birthday, and at a time when America...

<p>Former Ouachita Parish Police Juror Ervin "Peter" Turner believes elected officials should be on the frontlines of working toward the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a better, more equal America.</p> <p>Turner, who served on the Police Jury for 16 years, made his comments as keynote speaker Wednesday at the city of Monroe's 24th annual Salute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The event was held at the Monroe Civic Center Theatre and was attended by more than 300 people.</p>

<p>By Associated Press, 1/14/2003 15:26 MIAMI (AP) A California businessman pardoned by President Clinton for a 1983 fraud conviction involving a hair-growth product has been charged with tax evasion.</p> <p>Agents with the Internal Revenue Service arrested 59-year-old Almon Glenn Braswell on Monday. Federal prosecutors and the IRS had been investigating Braswell and his dietary supplement business.</p>

Edward M. Mezvinsky, a former congressman from Iowa, was sentenced to more than 6 1/2 years in prison Thursday for defrauding business associates, friends and family -- including his mother-in-law -- of millions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell rejected a plea for leniency from Mezvinsky, who blamed his actions on his manic-depression and the side effects of an anti-malaria drug that he took on trips to Africa. "Whatever impairment Mr. Mezvinsky may have had -- and I am dubious in the extreme about that -- it simply did not contribute to the ... crimes which took place over...