CLINTON CALLS TERROR A U.S. DEBT TO THE PAST

Clinton calls terror a U.S. debt to past

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Bob's Note: This is the sociopath in full psychosis with an adoring crowd of spoiled illiterate idiot college "students" who know nothing. It is apparent here that he hates America, can't arrive on time even for adoring sycophants, insists that terrorists need to be understood, and that YOU, JOHN Q. TAXPAYER, MUST FOOT THE BILL to remake the world to Clinton's standards. If you can figure out what he means in all this psychobable please e-mail me and explain it. Thanks.

Joseph Curl
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Published 11/8/2001

     Bill Clinton, the former president, said yesterday that terror has existed in America for hundreds of years and the nation is "paying a price today" for its past of slavery and for looking "the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed."
     "Here in the United States, we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery, and slaves quite frequently were killed even though they were innocent," said Mr. Clinton in a speech to nearly 1,000 students at Georgetown University's ornate Gaston Hall.
     "This country once looked the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human.
     "And we are still paying a price today," said Mr. Clinton, who was invited to address the students by the university's School of Foreign Service.
     Mr. Clinton, wearing a gray suit and orange tie, arrived 45 minutes late for the event. Some students camped out overnight to obtain tickets. The former president, a member of the Jesuit university's Class of 1968, opened his 50-minute speech by thanking a former teacher.
     "He never abandoned me over all these years, even though he did not succeed in convincing me to become a Jesuit," said Mr. Clinton, drawing laughter and then cheers from the almost entirely white crowd of students.
     Mr. Clinton spoke from notes about the world after September 11. He sought to dispel fears of terrorism and "this anthrax business."
     "I submit to you that we are now in a struggle for the soul of the 21st century and the world in which you students will live to raise your own children and make your own way," he said.
     Mr. Clinton said the international terrorism that has only just reached the United States dates back thousands of years.
     "In the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was a Muslim on the Temple Mount. I can tell you that story is still being told today in the Middle East and we are still paying for it."
     Mr. Clinton said America needs to pay more attention to its enemies and to the way the United States is viewed by the rest of the world.
     "There are a lot of people that see the world differently than we do. It is quite important that we do more to build the pool of potential partners in the world and to shrink the pool of potential terrorists. And that has nothing to do with fighting, but that has to do with what else we do.
     "This is partly a Muslim issue, because there is a war raging within Islam. We need to reach out and engage the Muslim world in a debate."
     Mr. Clinton referred to stories in the media about some American citizens cheering the terrorist attacks and suspected mastermind Osama bin Laden.
     "This debate is going on all over America. We've got to stop pretending this isn't out there," he said.
     Addressing matters of globalization, Mr. Clinton pondered the importance of such issues as technology, poverty, democracy, diversity, the environment, disease and terrorism.
     "Here's how I think you ought to think about it," he said. "We cannot ignore the fact that we have vulnerability at home because of our interdependence."
     The answer, Mr. Clinton said, is to spread freedom and democracy, reduce global poverty, forgive billions in debt, improve health care systems and encourage — even fund — education in developing countries.
     "We ought to pay for these children to go to school — a lot cheaper than going to war," he said.
     Perhaps most important, he said, is democracy.
     "It's no accident that most of these terrorists come from non-democratic countries. If you live in a country where you're never required to take responsibility for yourself, where you never even have to ask whether there's something you should be doing to solve your own problems, then people are kept in kind of a permanent state of collective immaturity and it becomes quite easy for them to believe that someone else's success is the cause of their distress.
     "We've got to defeat people who think they can find their redemption in our destruction. And then we have to be smart enough to get rid of our arrogant self-righteousness so that we don't claim for ourselves things we deny for others."
     The former president, who left office just 10 months ago after an eight-year tenure, said the federal government is "woefully" lacking on several key terrorism-prevention areas.
     "We need to strengthen our capacity to chase the money and get it, and we need some legislation on that," said Mr. Clinton, coincidentally on the same day President Bush, who has made freezing terrorist assets a "front" of his war on terrorism, announced the United States has moved to block the assets of 62 persons and groups associated with two financial networks linked to bin Laden.
     "And one area where we are woefully lacking is the simple use of modern computer tech to track people that come into this country," he said.
     While he criticized "the governmental capacity" now, he said "we all must support our current government in whatever decision they make."
     "This is not a perfect society but it is stumbling in the right direction," he said.
     At the end of his speech, Mr. Clinton — who was impeached for lying under oath about a sexual relationship with a 21-year-old White House intern — said the entire issue revolves around "the nature of truth."
     "This battle fundamentally is about what you think about the nature of truth," he said, noting that God has imposed on us the inability to ever know "the whole truth."
     He also championed women's rights in Afghanistan, saying the reason "you see all those sanctimonious guys beating those women with sticks" is because the country's rulers demand strict adherence to the rules.
     Students crowded around to shake the former president's hand after his speech. There were no detractors in the crowd, despite the fact that the university newspaper in September 1998 called on Mr. Clinton, then mired in scandal, to resign.
     "The American public," the Hoya said in a 1998 editorial, "has forgotten that international and domestic terrorism requires a proactive defense plan. Terrorists must be caught before they strike, and we must remember that those strikes always come when our head is turned toward other matters."

Clinton Joins the Blame-America-First Crowd

NewsMax.com

Thursday, Nov. 8, 2001

Bill Clinton says that terror has existed in America for hundreds of years and the U.S. is "paying a price today" for its past sins.

This is what the millionaire speech maker said Wednesday at Georgetown University, according to today's Washington Times:

"Here in the United States, we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery, and slaves quite frequently were killed even though they were innocent.

"This country once looked the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human.

"And we are still paying a price today."

This is from the man who is causing a black heritage site in Little Rock, Ark., to be demolished so his presidential "library" can be built.

The impeached ex-president blames today's Muslim terrorism on Christians of long ago.

"In the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was a Muslim on the Temple Mount. I can tell you that story is still being told today in the Middle East, and we are still paying for it."

Fox News Channel tonight showed a clip of him sounding like a stereotypical Guilty White Liberal: "Those of us who come from various European lineages are not blameless."

Clinton's bizarre solution to terrorism: Make freeloading countries even more dependent on U.S. taxpayers. Despite the dismal failure of America's government schools to educate our own children, and despite the fact that Mideast nations send America-hating terrorist "students" to the U.S. for training, he thinks Americans should pay to educate students from foreign countries!

"We ought to pay for these children to go to school - a lot cheaper than going to war," he claimed.

Will Clinton's blame-America-for-terrorism comments spark even 1 percent of the criticism heaped on Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson for their remarks? Of course not; most media are not even reporting Slick Willie's not-so-bon mots.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2001
By Ann Coulter

© 2001 Universal Press Syndicate

Initial reports from National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration officials investigating the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 are now ruling out slavery or Indian dispossession as the cause. This is in contradistinction to the attack of Sept. 11 – according to the theory propounded by Bill Clinton in his speech to Georgetown students last week.

"Here in the United States," Clinton said, "we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery, and slaves quite frequently were killed."

Not content to turn a nation of wandering nomads into an agricultural cornucopia capable of feeding and sustaining nearly 300 million people, we also "once looked the other way when a significant number of Native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights." (Um. They didn't have the concept of "mineral rights.")

"And we are still paying a price today," the impeached former president explained.

We're all on tenterhooks waiting for the pious windbags who denounced Jerry Falwell (Walter Cronkite) to express comparable indignation with Clinton's remarks. At least Falwell restricted the cosmic payback to this nation's current ills. Clinton went back to the first Crusade. "Those of us from various European lineages are not blameless," he said.

Indeed, he reminded the students again and again that "this is a country that was born in slavery." Yes, the Puritans came here on rickety ships, chancing disease and pestilence, in search of slavery.

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

Clinton also noted that "we still have the occasional hate crime rooted in race, religion or sexual orientation." The terrorist attack was not, however, connected to rape, sexual harassment, the smearing of witnesses or crimes committed by any recent American president. So at least we dodged that bullet.

Still, this is no time to be feeling all morally superior to the people who recently slaughtered thousands of our fellow countrymen. "[B]e smart enough," Clinton lectured the students, "to get rid of our arrogant self-righteousness" (which itself was not at all self-righteous).

Among his typically vacuous platitudes, Clinton repeatedly invoked the virtue of diversity and the global community. But despite all his heartfelt paeans to diversity, he couldn't help but to touch upon the fact that much of the global community enjoys killing and oppression.

Over and over again, Clinton stated the blindingly obvious: "[T]here are a lot of people who just don't see the world the way we do." He treated these different ways of seeing the world as charming idiosyncrasies in the abstract. "I'm glad America is a lot more different than it was when I was your age. This is a much, much more interesting country."

It was only when he moved from vague generalities about the global community to the dry particulars of the different ways of seeing the world that the blossom kept falling off the rose of diversity.

Thus, other diverse ways of seeing the world out there in the global community included this: "Seven hundred thousand people died in Rwanda in 90 days from people killing each other with machetes." I don't know, can't we be just a little morally self-righteous about not having done that? (Bob's Note: This happened during Clinton's presidency and neither he nor the U.N. (who had available troops and could have stopped the slaughter) lifted a finger to stop it.)

No. Liberals acknowledge nothing morally superior about America, aka a country "born in slavery." The one shining moral principle Clinton associates with America is that we think "nobody's got the truth." We don't think we're better and that's why we're better, if you follow his logic.

Thus, according to Clinton, it's precisely because "nobody's got the truth" that "you see all those sanctimonious guys beating those women with sticks in the Taliban." (Better put some ice on that.) But wait – we don't beat women in the street as official government policy! Doesn't that mean we're maybe a little bit closer to the truth than the Taliban?

One area in which Clinton ignores the bromide that "nobody's got the truth" is his belief in the never-ending value of the redistribution of money. Directly addressing the attack on New York (at least the U.N. escaped harm!) Clinton's prescription for victory was: "First we have to do more to reduce poverty and create more economic opportunity."

Is he one of the crazies still waiting for proof that multi-multimillionaire Osama bin Laden is behind the attack? Would a federal Department of Caves really help?

Even the left has given up on defending Bill Clinton's blather. Most of the media, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, responded to Clinton's latest cry for help by refusing to report on the Georgetown speech. Everyone wishes he'd just go away and stop sending himself botulism out of anthrax envy.

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