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The Clinton
Legacy
Ron
Peacock
Harlem, NY (PN)
Since
his term of office expired, Slick Willie has worked feverishly to
cast a good light on his Presidential legacy. 'My Life', the impeached
Presidents biography, is just another attempt at rewriting history
and casting a favorable light on the draft-evading former Chief
Executive. The 1008 page book is just another long winded, narcissistic
pilgrimage through the former (de-barred) attorney's revisionist
recollection.
The true Clinton legacy has yet to be played out. Clinton left us
the frothing caldron of poverty, atrocities and hostilities of the
Balkans, the never-ending cycle of bloodshed and chaos of Somalia,
the turmoil of Haiti, the failed peace talks between Israel and
the world's longest surviving terrorist, Yasser Arafat and he personally
may have rejected an offer that would have brought the future 9-11
mastermind, Osama Bin Laden, to American justice. Clinton, with
the help of presidential hopeful John Kerry, crippled our National
Intelligence organizations, reduced our standing military personnel
and equipment by over thirty percent and approved the transfer of
advanced nuclear technology to Red China. "Bubba" also managed to
shield and finance North Korea's nuclear weapons program (with the
helpful statesmanship of Madeline Al-not-too-Bright and a
former peanut farmer from Georgia), but through it all he managed
to maintain French goodwill and appreciation for the USA; well …
as much as the French ("nous détestons tout!")
can show goodwill or appreciation of anything!
Readers, we have felt the sting from a number of these dismally
flawed policies, and rest assured, the Clinton legacy will have
much more serious repercussions in the not too distant future.
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