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To: DMaA who wrote (12515)	3/29/1998 10:06:00 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 20981

Clinton's African Imbecilities Weekly Commentary by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Posted 3/27/98 Washington Is that the president of the United States making a six-nation tour of Africa? Or is it the president of the student body from a major American cow college, circa 1968? The student body president back in turbulent 1968 was windy with tales of American atrocities. He lamented American history for being an ongoing saga of victimization and environmental despoliation. He excoriated America's conduct of the Cold War, particularly in Vietnam. Most likely the student body president was about to pull out all the stops in an effort to avoid serving in the American military. Some of these make-believe statesmen even became draft dodgers. Anyone familiar with the recent biographies of Bill Clinton knows that our forty-second president became a draft dodger. While at Oxford he not only continued to befool his draft board. He actively participated in the student protest culture and demonstrated against American foreign policy, for instance in a gigantic anti-American rally in front of the American embassy in London. Then he spent the next two decades lying about his draft record, and, for that matter, about his academic career. He portrayed it as very scholarly, though as with so much else in his life it was slipshod and devious. He was one of the rare Rhodes Scholars who never bothered to finish his degree work. Clinton did leave university life with all the fashionable anti-American canards of the goody-goody student politician, which he was to the utmost. Now on his African tour he is sounding all the 1960s bilge as though no historic events had intervened -- for instance, the long-term African slide into tyranny and political corruption, or the vindication of the American Cold Warrior with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the end of world-wide Communist aggression. Either Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev or Boris Yeltsin would have sounded a more respectful assessment of American history to the Africans than Boy Clinton. Imagine, he is touring six countries, not one of which has an active democratic system in any way comparable to ours. All have histories of violence, corruption, and despotism. In one ignorant outburst the only president ever to qualify as a draft dodger said that during the Cold War -- the struggle to pacify Communism and render its countries democratic -- "very often we dealt with countries in Africa and in other parts of the world based more on how they stood in the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union than how they stood in the struggle for their own people's aspirations." Clinton said this in Uganda. During much of the time referred to so disapprovingly by Clinton, Uganda was governed by the lovely Idi Amin. Between 1971 and 1979 he may have been responsible for as many as 500,000 killings in his country. After Amin came Milton Obote and hundreds of thousands of more deaths. Neither was an American ally, both sided with Moscow. While in Uganda Clinton also erupted with this idiotic yawp: "And of course going back to the time before we were even a nation, European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade. And we were wrong in that as well....The biggest mistake America ever made with Africa over the long run was neglect and lack of understanding that we share a common future on this planet of ours that is getting smaller and smaller and smaller." Do you hear Bob Dylan singing in the background? This is pure 1960s codswollop. Gratefully an African leader was on hand who knew some African history and probably enough American history to recognize our President's nonsense. He is the most recent Ugandan dictator, President Yoweri Museveni. At least he is a benign despot. He has made some constructive efforts to bring his people to prosperity and democracy. The Washington Times reports that he termed our President's statements "rubbish." "African chiefs were the ones waging war on each other," admonished President Museveni, "and capturing their own people and selling them. If anyone should apologize it should be the African chiefs. We still have those traitors here today." And doubtless there remain pockets of slavery in the world. Perhaps President Museveni has read Sir Hugh Thomas' recent study, The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870. It would set our Boy President straight. Or perhaps the Ugandan merely knows the history of his country better than our President knows our history. At any rate, slavery has been practiced all over the world, through many centuries. The only people who took international measures to stamp it out were the "European Americans" whom our foolish President is given to maligning on foreign soil. There was a day when American statesmen would not speak ill of their country on foreign soil. Jimmy Carter ended that old-fashioned formality when he disparaged President Reagan while abroad in the 1980s. But Carter was only disparaging a political opponent. Clinton is disparaging his entire country. Once again his imbecility is unprecedented.

To: DMaA who wrote (12515)	3/30/1998 7:22:00 AM
From: robnhood	Respond to of 20981

<<<The US's non response to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.>>> Intentional???. I will now duck. russell

To: DMaA who wrote (12515)	4/9/1998 1:46:00 AM
From: robnhood	Respond to of 20981

<<<Did you notice? Bill screwed up and apologized for something he was responsible for: The US's non response to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.>>> David, I can't find it right now, but I saw in the paper yesterday , where a French higher up said that the missile fired to bring down the plane, and kill whoever was on board in 1994, that started the Rwanda genocide was provided by , YES, The U.S. From a load of SAM missiles seized from Iraq.. Of course , this was immediately denied. His apology was written into his trip. IMHO. That makes it all better I guess...