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...it was possible for someone to be sooooo out-of-touch with their actions and their results, but I was wrong.
Former President Bill Clinton on a recent visit to Rwanda:
Clinton regrets personal failure on Rwanda genocidePersonal failure? Personal!?"I express regret for my personal failure," he said before touring the museum, which features graphic images of people being decapitated and bodies twitching on the road.
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Clinton apologized on a previous visit to Rwanda in 1998 for not recognizing the crime of genocide.
Bill, I don't think that over 100,000 people being butchered is a Personal. It's more like a GIGANTIC failure on you and your entire administration - the kind that will not be overlooked for a long, long time.
Congratulations President Ass-Hat - you must be quite proud of yourself. And with this last little bit of presidential-style ass-hattedness, I'll quote Darth Vader from Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi:
Bill, congratulations - you're the Current Dipstick of the Week!
The sad part is, as that article points out, all our aid seems to do is find its way into the poc
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Mad Mikey said:
IMO I think that while this started during Clinton's administration, he could have done so
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The Other Mike S said:
Wow, Cait, what a great article.
The interviewee sees that self sufficiency is the way to
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Cait said:
I agree with Mike S. on this one. What's Clinton supposed to say, anyway. He accepted personal
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The Other Mike S said:
How is this Clinton's problem? Because it happened on his watch?
Then this must be Bush'
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How is this Clinton's problem? Because it happened on his watch?
Then this must be Bush's problem:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/congo/2005/0107volatile.htm
31,000 per month. Every month. That's roughly 360,000 a year, times 5 years equals.....
Or maybe it's not a US problem at all. Who made us the hall monitors of the world? Certainly not our Constitution.
It's not our responsibility to fix the ills of the world unless they're a direct threat to our economic or security interests. The so-called "Humanitarian" relief has done NOTHING but line the pockets of the despots in power. And we've seen what happens when we give the money to the UN to "care-take" the operation.
|| Posted by The Other Mike S, July 24, 2005 10:03 PM ||I agree with Mike S. on this one. What's Clinton supposed to say, anyway. He accepted personal responsibility, although, like Mike, I'm not sure it's our responsibility to feed the world. For a really interesting and different take on our aid to Africa, read this:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html
It goes along with what Mike said about lining the pockets of tyrants.
|| Posted by Cait, July 25, 2005 08:05 AM ||Wow, Cait, what a great article.
The interviewee sees that self sufficiency is the way to prosper. Not taking hand-outs. I wish the so-called leaders in our country that push welfare and other social hand-outs had the same outlook.
|| Posted by The Other Mike S, July 25, 2005 10:13 AM ||IMO I think that while this started during Clinton's administration, he could have done something....anything.
This was during the time that I was under the nasty spell of being a Democrat and even with that in mind I couldn't believe that he was doing nothing - not even trying to get the fracking United Nations to intervene.
As with everyone that assigns blame to President Bush for anything/everything happening in the world, this same standard also applies to Clinton.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, July 25, 2005 03:08 PM ||The sad part is, as that article points out, all our aid seems to do is find its way into the pockets of the reigning tyrants, rather than feed the starving. I'm not a Clinton fan. I believe he should have taken the opportunities he had to snuff OBL. But, in every administration, there are going to be world events and national events that the president can be blamed for, either for sins of commission or sins of omission. Probably Clinton should have done something about the situation in Rwanda. The question is "What?" considering all the prior failures of American, UN, and world aid.
|| Posted by Cait, July 25, 2005 03:19 PM ||