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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (69215)12/20/2004 3:50:26 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
jw,

Re: should I outline Clinton's shortcomings?

From the list that you've provided, I would have to say that while I agree that Clinton was a flawed leader, I see his faults as being of a somewhat different nature from what you see fit to criticize.

Re: combined with military dismantlement

Does it cross your mind that the greatest theft of the American taxpayer's money has been perpetrated by the military-industrial complex and its insatiable greed? If not, you might wish to pay more attention to the matter.

Last week, the USAF announced yet another failure in the two decade old Star Wars project. Since the days when Ronald Reagan was bald-faced lying to us about the threat that the decrepit Soviet Union posed, this nation has pissed away somewhere between $80 and $120 BILLION on a malevolently premised and aggressively poised National Missile Defense system.

That is only one of multiple boondoggles that the militarists have been trying to "sell" to the befuddled American taxpayer.

Bill Clinton did not do nearly enough to curtail this madness.

In fact, I very much fault Clinton for being a dissembler about the real purposed of the naked militarism and illegal aggression he engaged in. Here's an eye-opening article on the utterly cynical use of military force on behalf of a handful of elitist corporate thugs:

antiwar.com

But, let's not just say that it is about Bush, Clinton or any other individual. The real poison in the American system is the over-wrought greed and militarized will to Empire that will bankrupt this nation, destroy its vaunted way of life, end the succor of imminently useful social programs and bring about a new Dark Ages of Christian Crusades, spreading a virulent poison of superstitious ignorance across the planet.

As they say, military intelligence is an oxymoron. Our present predicament certainly proves the case.
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