Bill Clinton's Lies
"Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually good. Do you realize that?"
Bob Kerrey [D-Neb.], Esquire, 1/96)
Senator and Chairman of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
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SOMALIA, 1993:
Clinton pledged never to deploy American troops overseas unless U.S. strategic interests were threatened and there was a clear military goal with a firm exit strategy.
BOSNIA, 1995
Clinton said he would deploy troops to Bosnia for only 18 months, and then they would come home.
BOSNIA, 1998
The Clinton administration confirmed plans to maintain thousands of troops on an open-ended peacekeeping mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina with no exit strategy.`The policy is to remain there. It's
open-ended.'
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GENNIFER FLOWERS, 1992
Clinton emphatically denied having affair with Gennifer Flowers
GENNIFER FLOWERS, 1998
Clinton admits in deposition to having sexual affair with Gennifer Flowers
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100 DAY PLAN: June 23, 1992
Bill Clinton:
"I intend to have a legislative program ready on the desks of Congress on the day after I'm inaugurated. I intend
to have an explosive 100 day action period. Why do I think it will pass? Well, first of all, I'm running on it."
100 DAY PLAN: Jan 14, 1993
Question from member of press:
"We were originally led to believe you would have an outline for congress even before the inauguration and
presented on day one or shortly thereafter - and now we're told it may be a couple weeks down the road with a
full plan ready in March. When will it be ready?"
Reply by Bill Clinton:
"Well, I don't know who led you to believe that, but I'm the Only one who's authorized to talk about that ---"
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Bill Clinton, June 8 1996
"I have vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child."
THE TRUTH: NOT A SINGLE BLACK CHURCH BURNED IN ARKANSAS WHEN HE WAS GROWING UP.
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Bill Clinton, Feb 12, 1996
"Since I was a little boy, I've heard about the Iowa caucuses. That's why I would really like to do well in them."
THE TRUTH: THE IOWA CAUCUSES DIDN'T BEGIN UNTIL 1972 when Clinton was at Oxford in England.
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THE LIE:
Bill Clinton, 1992
I will not raised taxes, I will impose tax cuts for the American People
THE TRUTH,
In 1993, Clinton's "tax cut" was the single largest tax increase in American history.
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THE LIE
Bill Clinton, 1992
"The [Bush] administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform"
THE TRUTH
Bill Clinton, 1994
I have decided that the United States should renew Most Favored Nation trading status toward China."I am moving, therefore, to delink human rights from the annual extension of Most Favored Nation trading status for China."
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Bill Clinton, 6/11/92
"I would support a balanced-budget amendment"
Bill Clinton, 2/28/95
"Obviously, I don't support it [a balanced budget amendment]."
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Bill Clinton, 1992
[We] Oppose federal excise gas tax increases. Instead of a backbreaking federal gas tax, we should try conservation, increased use of natural gas, and increased use of alternative fuels."
THE TRUTH
President Clinton raised the federal gasoline tax a total of 6.8 cents per gallon in 1996
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