Quote from Alex_in_Oz:
As an outside observer I would say this "Gord' fellow is almost completely clueless!
How can any SANE person defend what Bush has done to the USA over the past two terms?
Why don't you just talk to me - oh so informed one?
I was comparing Clinton to Bush and showing how Clinton had been given a complete pass by the media for one of the worst presidencies in modern history. In fact they defended him. So let's take a look at what they defended:
Bill Clinton started his presidency with an expanding economy and left it in a disaster. First there was the stock market bust. And don't forget about the Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, Global Crossing, etc. fiascoes. Those led to a recession (remember it was president Clinton that declared that the business cycle was over - LOL). Then there was the "Wall" which he erected between the FBI, the NSA and the CIA so they could not share information and dig into his Chinese money-laundering, and which led to the security intel failure of 9/11. Oh, and don't forget about allowing Loral Space to hand the Chinese ballistic missile technology that brought them 30 years ahead, and now they have nukes that can reach N.A. (was that a payoff for the laundered money they contributed to his campaigns or was it from being blackmailed over Monica or other "interns"?). And then after much posturing in 1998 about Saddam's WMD's president Clinton instead left his mess for president Bush to solve:
Transcript President Clinton explains Iraq strike - December 16, 1998
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcripts/clinton.html
"The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world."
"The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government - a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people."
"If Saddam defies the world and we fail to respond, we will face a far greater threat in the future. Saddam will strike again at his neighbors. He will make war on his own people."
"And mark my words, he will develop weapons of mass destruction. He will deploy them, and he will use them."
President Clinton should have invaded Iraq in 1998 when Saddam kicked the UN inspectors out, and they knew he still had stockpiles of WMD's. But we all know that Clinton was just a poser - everything he said and did was with an eye on the polls (and the Monika problem).
Sudan offered to hand over Osama bin Laden to President Clinton on a platter, but Clinton refused to take him. Look where that led to.
President Clinton also let North Korea continue to develop its nuclear weapons program without repercussions even though he supposedly "negotiated" an agreement with the N. Koreans to not make nukes.
The political correctness of the Clinton administration had CIA operatives sewing "diversity quilts" supposedly to make them more sensitive to the countries they were supposed to spy on. That and similar nonsense allowed Libya to develop a nuclear weapons program even more sophisticated and mature than today's Iran program. (Thank goodness Bush invaded Iraq, which directly led to Libya voluntarily giving up its nuke program so it would not be the next country invaded by Bush - that alone makes the Iraq war worthwhile.)
And then there was the illegal attack on Serbia without UN consultation or approval and based on a completely fraudulent "500,000" Kosovars supposedly "ethnically cleansed" and Clinton comparing it to the Holocaust on television to sell the war. This was done to make up for the "embarrassment" of allowing up to 1 million Tutsis be mass murdered in Rwanda, after which Clinton admitted as few as 5,000 troops could have prevented the slaughter. It turned out a few thousand Serbs and Kosovars had died - hardly "ethnic cleansing".
And there was the selling of White House bedrooms.
And severely cutting CIA funds and resources when terrorism was on the rise.
Of course there was FBI filegate.
And there was the botched peace agreement that led to the Palestinian Intifada.
And of course we can't forget White Water, impeachment, cattle futures and bombing aspirin factories.
President Clinton will always be known as the "blue dress" joke-of-a-president who couldn't keep his pants up, or his enemies down.
But in the media's eyes he could do no wrong...
