This article from the Irish Independent made my night. I am so proud of my President.
Bill Clinton's eight years of dithering led to unmitigated disasters that could well have been avoided had he possessed even a smidgen of the current president's honour and grit.
It has taken George Bush less than four years to clean up his predecessor's mess and restore the moral balance.
(Via Lucianne.)
Honey-talking Bill lacks George's guts and honourPosted by floridacracker at June 27, 2004 11:45 PM
MOST of the crazies who called for George Bush's arrest this week believe we were safer when Bill Clinton was bedding interns in the Oval Office.These political adolescents think the ex-president possessed qualities of leadership that are lost on his simple-minded successor. But those who seriously study the record will know it is actually George Bush who fits the description of a truly great leader.
Glancing through the ego-soaked pages of Clinton's new memoir - My Life, you would never guess that he abandoned reason and scruple by making statesmen out of people like Yasser Arafat and Gerry Adams, thereby destroying any hope for long-term peace in either Northern Ireland or the Middle East.
Bill Clinton, during his time in office, quite simply squandered America's moral authority that Ronald Reagan restored in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam.
He did so by vetoing intervention to stop the Rwandan genocide, refusing to stand up to Slobodan Milosevic until he had wasted most of Bosnia and Kosovo, and by abandoning countless innocent Somalis once the going got a little tough. Under his nose, Kim Jong Il restarted his nuclear programme, Saddam bored holes in the sanctions and expelled the arms inspectors from Iraq, while Al-Qaeda used the protection of the Taliban to take control of Afghanistan.
In response, Clinton bombed Iraq for the duration of his impeachment trial without United Nation approval. If it's war crimes the anti-war loons are concerned with they need first prosecute their darling Bill.
In contrast, George W Bush has rid the world of Saddam Hussein's regime and the vile Taliban - killers of 2.5 million innocent Muslims between them, thereby depriving Al-Qaeda of its sole state sponsor.
Thanks to the President's moral courage, Iraq has now the most ethnically diverse government and most liberal constitution in the Middle East.
The 400 towns that Saddam destroyed have now been rebuilt and all of the country's schools, hospitals, and universities have been refurbished and reopened.
Libya has been disarmed, North Korea and the Iranians are being forced to follow suit, and a worldwide underground nuclear network has been exposed and shut down.
Bill Clinton liked to honey up his speeches with talk of combating Aids, but as Bob Geldof rightly insists, it is actually George Bush who has done more to alleviate Africa's misery than any American president in history.
That combined with the fact that he has rejoined UNESCO and paid all of America's outstanding debts to the United Nations, makes George Bush's period in office one of the noblest on record.
Bill Clinton's eight years of dithering led to unmitigated disasters that could well have been avoided had he possessed even a smidgen of the current president's honour and grit.
It has taken George Bush less than four years to clean up his predecessor's mess and restore the moral balance.
And that is why calls for his arrest are as contemptible as they are stupid.