MY SAY: SUDDENLY BILL CLINTON IS A HERO?
Am I the only one who is disgusted by the rebranding of Bill Clinton? Well, perhaps just some of the victims of the Rwanda genocide agree with me. After all, this great humanist completely ignored the brutality, the violence, the horror in Rwanda. He did sort of apologize for that omission. This is also the man who had a chance to capture Obama in Khartoum but under the advice of stocking stuffer Sandy Berger and his comely Secretary of State he nixed the offer from Khartoum. Lo0k, cut him a little slack. He was too busy trying to corner Israel into signing a suicide note for Yasser Arafat at the Wye Plantation.
And there was that little dalliance..but never mind. Even John Edwards wanted to be President. That’s just the unending Spitzerama of the Democrats.
And, how about this nugget? You think only Obama falters on Iran? Here is Bill in his own words in an interview by Charlie Rose during the 2005 Economic Forum in Davos:
Clinton: …” Iran’s a whole different kettle of fish—but it’s a sad story that really began in the 1950s when the United States deposed Mr. Mossadegh, who was an elected parliamentary democrat, and brought the Shah back in—] and then he was overturned by the Ayatollah Khomeini, driving us into the arms of one Saddam Hussein. Most of the terrible things Saddam Hussein did in the 1980s he did with the full, knowing support of the United States government, because he was in Iran, and Iran was what it was because we got rid of the parliamentary democracy back in the ’50s; at least, that is my belief.I know it is not popular for an American ever to say anything like this, but I think it’s true and I apologized when President Khatami was elected. I publicly acknowledged that the United States had actively overthrown Mossadegh and I apologized for it, and I hope that we could have some rapprochement with Iran. I think basically the Europeans’ initiative to Iran to try to figure out a way to defuse the nuclear crisis is a good one.”
And then he continued with this one:
But Iran is the most perplexing problem … we face, for the following reasons: It is the only country in the world with two governments, and the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami. [It is] the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote in six elections: two for President; two for the parliament, the Majlis; two for the mayoralities.
In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70% of the vote. There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.
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