It's the Clenis again

No matter how much havoc Napoleon Bonehead, George the Double-faced, wreaks upon the world, he just can't keep Clinton out of the spotlight.

Link-hopping got me to this amazing book cover:



No mistaking that message is there?

From the Newsmax website:

Catastrophe [Clinton's role in America's worst disaster] begins on January 20, 1993, when William Jefferson Clinton took the oath of office as the 42nd president of the United States of America. Clinton swore to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States” from enemies both foreign and domestic.

During the next eight years, Bill Clinton would preside over the most corrupt administration in American history. He would be only the second president in American history to be impeached.

Very funny. The "most corrupt administration in American history". Really? I'd be willing to wager that it would not merit that distinction, assuming, of course, that one could find a standardized way to measure.

And the impeachable offense itself was a corruption of government? A lie? There wouldn't be a president left unimpeached if that were the case.

(And I won't mention the name of chickenshit criminal Richard Madhouse Nixon who resigned before impeachment proceedings could be brought. Nor will I mention that Clinton's impeachment was defeated, and therefore the charge of impeachment without removal from office may be considered an unsubstantiated charge.)

When Bill Clinton took office, American supremacy on the world stage had never been so great and unchallenged. Our military was without equal. The economy was beginning a record boom.

Soon after Bill Clinton left office, Americans began to discover his bitter legacy.

So that's what we're calling Georgie these days? Works for me.

When Clinton left office we weren't public enemy number one. Thanks to Bitter Legacy, we can once again claim supremacy on the world stage.

Even as Clinton was leaving Washington, the American economy had begun to move into a serious recession.

And America’s belief in invulnerability was shattered on September 11, 2001, when 19 Arab hijackers slammed civilian jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Excuse me. First of all, America's belief in invulnerability, if it existed, was just that - a belief. And a damned ridiculous and self-delusional one if we had it.

Regardless, the more important point I'd like to make here is: who was in the White House on September 11, 2001? If memory serves me, it was Bitter Legacy himself.

Catastrophe exposes what really happened during the Clinton years, and how Bill Clinton and his administration systematically undermined America’s national security by emasculating the U.S. military and the nation’s intelligence agencies.

I'm sure.

"Emasculating" is an interesting choice of words to use - loaded. And a clear clue as to whom this book will appeal.

And, as Michael Ruppert points out in his From the Wilderness Article, Failure and Crime Are Not the Same:

The American side of 9/11 (the suppression of warnings, the sabotage of investigative action, the stand-down, the insider trading, the Patriot Act, the pre-planning of the Afghan and Gulf II wars, the cover-up) was surely not built years in advance as a coherent and integrated plot using Al Qaida as assets. It was not hatched in some CIA basement. No, it was built the old-fashioned way, out of the accumulated toxic waste generated from preceding American adventures. This time around, these included the Carter - Reagan Afghan War against the USSR that produced Al Qaida; the Bush crime family and their Mahfouz / bin Laden ties; the matrix of oil and financial interests that Cheney, Rice, and Bush Sr. represent; the Clinton administration's systematic and relentless protection of the Taliban and refusals to capture Osama bin Laden; the abortive pipeline negotiations with the Taliban (represented by Richard Helms' niece); and the hidden alliance with Pakistani Intelligence (ISI). In other words, what led up to 9/11 was the systemic and ongoing deep politics of guns, oil, drugs, and war.

Here in the "Homeland," what flowed from 9/11 is the newly expanded American infrastructure of fiscally disastrous militarism and unconstitutional domestic repression. Every major budgetary and policy consequence of the attacks seems like the fulfilled dream of one or another megalomaniac. For instance, I think of the Patriot Act as John Ashcroft's sweet slice of the post-9/11 pie. The Central Intelligence Agency got billions of dollars and the key to the statutory "shackles" of the Church Committee - and the Constitution - that had bound its hands. Rumsfeld's Defense Department and its arms merchants got an ocean of new money. Bush got some respect and a mandate. Cheney got his reconstruction contracts.

And perhaps Clinton is making hay from the event, too. I don't know if he had any part in PNAC or P2OG. I haven't seen that reported anywhere - they both appear to be wholly concocted by the ultra-right. Certainly he had his part in the shame of American politics, and is no doubt making money from more than one shady deal with shady foreign, military and corporate entanglements. On the other hand, he was not in office when the WTC was attacked, he did not ignore the warnings from various intelligence agencies, he did not give the command for intercepter aircraft to stand down, and he is not engaged in stalling and covering up the investigation. I will never defend Clinton. He was just light years better than Cowboy Codpiece.

I mean, Bitter Legacy.