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JOHN PILGER, ANTIWAR - On 14 August, you are invited to "an audience"
with Bill Clinton. You have a choice. You can attend the "breakfast and
speech" or the "brunch buffet and speech." These will take place in the
white elephantine MillenniumlDome, where a place in the "Kings' Row"
will cost you L799. Last year, Clinton made more than L5m granting
"audiences." . . .
The Clinton scam is symptomatic of the death of liberalism . . . Clinton
is able to make a shedload a money because he is contrasted with the
despised Bush as the flawed good guy who did his best for the world and
brought economic boom to the US - the fabled American dream no less.
Both notions are finely spun lies. . . Consider Clinton's true record:
In 1993, he pursued George H. W. Bush's invasion of Somalia. He invaded
Haiti in 1994. He bombed Bosnia in 1995 and Serbia in 1999. In 1998, he
bombed Afghanistan; and, at the height of his Monica Lewinsky troubles,
he momentarily diverted the headline writers to a major "terrorist
target" in Sudan that he ordered destroyed with an onslaught of
missiles. It turned out to be sub-Saharan Africa's largest
pharmaceutical plant, the only source of chloroquine, the treatment for
malaria, and other drugs that were lifelines to hundreds of thousands.
As a result, wrote Jonathan Belke, then of the Near East Foundation,
"tens of thousands of people - many of them children - have suffered and
died from malaria, tuberculosis and other treatable diseases."
Long before Shock and Awe, Clinton was destroying and killing in Iraq.
Under the lawless pretense of a "no-fly zone," he oversaw the longest
allied aerial bombardment since the Second World War. This was hardly
reported. At the same time, he imposed and tightened a Washington-led
economic siege estimated to have killed a million civilians. "We think
the price is worth it," said his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright,
in an exquisite moment of honesty.
Those settling down in the Kings' Row at the Millennium Dome on 14
August for breakfast or brunch with GOB, having transferred another swag
to the Clinton bank account, are unlikely to reflect on the blood spilt
and the epic suffering caused, or on the moral corruption of the liberal
ideology that courted and acclaimed Clinton, along with the criminal
Blair.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/pilger.php
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JOHN PILGER, ANTIWAR - On 14 August, you are invited to "an audience"
with Bill Clinton. You have a choice. You can attend the "breakfast and
speech" or the "brunch buffet and speech." These will take place in the
white elephantine MillenniumlDome, where a place in the "Kings' Row"
will cost you L799. Last year, Clinton made more than L5m granting
"audiences." . . .
The Clinton scam is symptomatic of the death of liberalism . . . Clinton
is able to make a shedload a money because he is contrasted with the
despised Bush as the flawed good guy who did his best for the world and
brought economic boom to the US - the fabled American dream no less.
Both notions are finely spun lies. . . Consider Clinton's true record:
In 1993, he pursued George H. W. Bush's invasion of Somalia. He invaded
Haiti in 1994. He bombed Bosnia in 1995 and Serbia in 1999. In 1998, he
bombed Afghanistan; and, at the height of his Monica Lewinsky troubles,
he momentarily diverted the headline writers to a major "terrorist
target" in Sudan that he ordered destroyed with an onslaught of
missiles. It turned out to be sub-Saharan Africa's largest
pharmaceutical plant, the only source of chloroquine, the treatment for
malaria, and other drugs that were lifelines to hundreds of thousands.
As a result, wrote Jonathan Belke, then of the Near East Foundation,
"tens of thousands of people - many of them children - have suffered and
died from malaria, tuberculosis and other treatable diseases."
Long before Shock and Awe, Clinton was destroying and killing in Iraq.
Under the lawless pretense of a "no-fly zone," he oversaw the longest
allied aerial bombardment since the Second World War. This was hardly
reported. At the same time, he imposed and tightened a Washington-led
economic siege estimated to have killed a million civilians. "We think
the price is worth it," said his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright,
in an exquisite moment of honesty.
Those settling down in the Kings' Row at the Millennium Dome on 14
August for breakfast or brunch with GOB, having transferred another swag
to the Clinton bank account, are unlikely to reflect on the blood spilt
and the epic suffering caused, or on the moral corruption of the liberal
ideology that courted and acclaimed Clinton, along with the criminal
Blair.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/pilger.php
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