Yesterday, while campaigning for his wife, Bill said that he was never for the the war in Iraq.
The question is, Can the Clintons ever tell the truth about what they have said or done?



Clinton defends successor's push for war
Says Bush 'couldn't responsibly ignore' chance Iraq had WMDs
Wednesday, June 23, 2004 Posted: 7:55 AM EDT (1155 GMT)


(CNN) -- Former President Clinton has revealed that he continues to support President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq but chastised the administration over the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.
"I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq, even though I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over," Clinton said in a Time magazine interview that will hit newsstands Monday, a day before the publication of his book "My Life."
Clinton, who was interviewed Thursday, said he did not believe that Bush went to war in Iraq over oil or for imperialist reasons but out of a genuine belief that large quantities of weapons of mass destruction remained unaccounted for.
Noting that Bush had to be "reeling" in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, Clinton said Bush's first priority was to keep al Qaeda and other terrorist networks from obtaining "chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material."
"That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for," Clinton said in reference to Iraq and the fact that U.N. weapons inspectors left the country in 1998.
"So I thought the president had an absolute responsibility to go to the U.N. and say, 'Look, guys, after 9/11, you have got to demand that Saddam Hussein lets us finish the inspection process.' You couldn't responsibly ignore [the possibility that] a tyrant had these stocks," Clinton said.
Pressed on whether the Iraq war was worth the cost to the United States, Clinton said he would not have undertaken the war until after U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix "finished his job."
Weapons inspectors led by Blix scoured Iraq for three and a half months before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 but left after President Bush issued an ultimatum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to leave the country.
"I want it to have been worth it, even though I didn't agree with the timing of the attack," Clinton said.
Clinton blamed the Abu Ghraib prison abuses on poorly trained National Guard personnel and higher-ups in the Bush administration.
The former president said he was not surprised by the abuses committed by U.S. forces at Abu Ghraib but that he was surprised by their extent.
"There is no excuse for that," Clinton said.
Clinton blamed the abuses on the higher echelons of the Bush administration.
"The more we learn about it, the more it seems that some people fairly high up, at least, thought that this was the way it ought to be done," he said.
Implying that the United States should lead by example, Clinton said of the abuses, "No. 1, we can't pull stunts like that, and No. 2, when we do, whoever is responsible has to pay."

"The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairsof cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalryof schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition,and there is great danger that our people will lose our independenceof thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, andsink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects hisgovernment to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribewhen his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulateevery act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the mannerin which he may seek future admission to paradise." ---MarkTwain (http://PatriotPost.US/histdocs/quotes/twain.asp)

"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this groundthat 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution,nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to thepeople.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawnaround the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless fieldof power, not longer susceptible of any definition." ---ThomasJefferson

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Texas Homeland Security Chief: 'Terrorists Crossed Border' -- MSM Ignores News
By Warner Todd Huston September 19, 2007 - 03:53 ET
On Sept. 13th, Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw announced in a speech to the North Texas Crime Commission that Texas authorities had apprehended terrorist suspects who were sneaking across the Mexico/U.S. border. Shouldn't such a report be running through the MSM like wildfire? Yet, the MSM seems to be ignoring this explosive report with only local Texas news sources, a few Jihad watchers and bloggers having picked up the Director's statements.
The AP did have a report, shockingly enough, but few other MSM services seem to have found it as of yet... even though the story is about a week old.

DALLAS - Texas' top homeland security official said Wednesday that terrorists with ties to Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaida have been arrested crossing the Texas border with Mexico in recent years.


via Newsbusters.org

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(CNN) -- Iran wants "peace and friendship for all," the country's president said Wednesday while again denying Western assertions his nation is pursuing nuclear weapons and trying to destabilize Iraq.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the Natanz nuclear facility in April.

But Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a hard line against Israel, calling it "an invader" and saying it "cannot continue its life."
Asked if Iran had launched a proxy war in Iraq -- something the U.S. ambassador and top military commander there both asserted this week -- Ahmadinejad said the United States is merely seeking a scapegoat for its failing campaign in Iraq.
"Forces have come into Iraq and destroyed the security, and many people are killed," the Iranian president told Britain's ITN during an interview in the garden of the Iranian presidential palace in Tehran.
"And there are some claims that may seem very funny and ridiculous. Those who have lots of weaponry and warfare and thousands of soldiers -- if they are defeated, they blame others. There is no way to escape for peace."
Iranians do not believe in war and consider it a "last resort," he said.

Memorializing 9/11 is more vital than ever, as the emotion and sense of purpose that swept over this country in 2001 dissipate. But PJM’s David Rusin writes that remembering the events in sadness is not enough. We must also remain angry.
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HILLARY'S DIRTY MONEY
The campaign of Hillary Clinton, the presidential candidate just endorsed byCommunist dictator Fidel Castro, turned over $23,000 in campaign donations tocharity this week after learning that the donor of the money, Norman Hsu,has a warrant out for his arrest that dates back to the 1990s. Hsu wasarrested in 1991 for collecting $1 million from investors for a contractthat didn't exist. (Hsu's lawyer says his client doesn't recall pleading nocontest to grand theft, or being obliged to serve three years' prison time. Howconvenient.) While he's been on the lam, Hsu has been one of Clinton's biggestfundraisers and contributors. The FEC reports Hsu has given $119,000 since2004, but there is sure to be much more money with his fingerprints on it.The Wall Street Journal found that Hsu might have been circumventinglegal limits by donating cash under other names. A family living in a"working-class" neighborhood outside of San Francisco has donated $45,000 toClinton in the last two years. The level of their donations clearly does notmatch the 64-year-old father's $49,000 annual income as a letter carrier. (Itreminds one of Al Gore's "no controlling legal authority" trip to a Buddhisttemple in 1996, at which he raked in plenty of cash laundered by one JohnHuang.) Documents are likely to prove that Hsu, who once listed that modesthouse as an address, donated the money under the family name.Clinton, a shrewd campaigner in every respect, promptly threw some of Hsu'smoney out the window after the Journal broke the story, but there is likelyplenty more to be found. Expect the Clinton machine to go into overdriveworking to sweep another scandal under the rug.
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"Hillary Clinton doesn't have to prove she's a man. She has to prove she's
a woman. She doesn't have to prove to people that she's tough enough or
aggressive enough to be commander in chief. She doesn't have to show she could
and would wage a war. She has to prove she has normal human warmth, a normal
amount of give, of good nature, that she is not, at bottom, grimly combative
and rather dark. This is the woman credited with starting and naming the War
Room. Her staff has nicknamed her 'The Warrior.' Get in her way and she'd
squish you like a bug. This has been her reputation for 20 years. And it is
her big problem. People want a president to be strong but not hard... Back
[in 1992], when the Clintons were newly famous, their consultants were alarmed
to find the American people did not believe Hillary was a mother. They thought
she was a person with breasts in a suit. She had a briefcase and a latte and
was late for the meeting, but no way did she have a child... The Sopranos
video the Clintons made and released this week was smart and well done... It
addressed yet again the likability problem, but from a new angle... The
film jokingly acknowledges what the Clintons well know: that a certain
portion of the voting population sees them as... well, as gangsterish. As
dark, and dishonest to a degree more extreme than is usual even in political
figures. By putting these perceptions so colorfully on the table, they make fun
of them. And they invite their foes to go too far, at just the right moment,
a year before the 2008 presidential race really begins."
---Peggy Noonan

Father of the Iranian revolution
By MICHAEL D. EVANS

We just don't get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called "dim-witted cowboy," has created the entire mess.

The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini.

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"Fellow Americans, our duty is before us. Let us go forward, determined to
serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity
at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and
coldest nights, that 'sacred fire of liberty' that President Washington spoke
of two centuries ago, a fire that... remains a beacon to all the oppressed
of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we
call America." ---Ronald Reagan (http://Reagan2020.US/)

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come
from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history
of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of
governmental power, not the increase of it." ---Woodrow Wilson

I think Fred Thompson won the debate last night!
And he wasn't even there!

Otherwise, Guiliani did very well.

Where's the fence?

Were on our way!
For the tenth year in a row the kids, Bonnie and I are going.

Democrats Hide Pet Projects From Voters

Jun 3 05:08 AM US/Eastern By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - After promising unprecedented openness regarding Congress' pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget year.

Democrats are sidestepping rules approved their first day in power in January to clearly identify "earmarks"—lawmakers' requests for specific projects and contracts for their states.

Rather than including specific pet projects, grants and contracts in legislation as it is being written, Democrats are following an order by the House Appropriations Committee chairman to keep the bills free of such earmarks until it is too late for critics to effectively challenge them.

Via Breitbart.com

YES!

Fifty percent of adults would not vote for Clinton

By Kelly McCormack

March 27, 2007

Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday. More than one in five Democrats that participated in the survey said they would not vote for Clinton. Overall, 36 percent say they would vote for the former first lady and 11 percent are unsure of their top choice. Forty-eight percent of Independent voters also said that they would choose another candidate over Clinton, the poll, which surveyed 2,223 potential voters, states. Fifty-six percent of men said that they would not vote for Clinton, while 45 percent of women said that she would not be their pick. In addition, 69 percent of those 62 and older said that they would not vote for Clinton. Nearly half of the respondents said that they dislike Clinton’s political opinions and Clinton as a person. Fifty-two percent of people also said that “she does not appear to connect with people on a personal level.”

via-Harris poll

John Edwards Tells Hollywood All Candidates and Wifes Called—Except Bill and Hillary Clinton

At a Hollywood fundraiser Friday night, John Edwards told donors that he and wife Elizabeth heard personally from every candidate and their spouse after their press conference -- except the Clintons. "He said Hillary and Bill didn't call but all the others did with messages of support. He repeated the story to each table," an attendee told me. I'm told that a member of Hillary Clinton's team sent an email afterwards to at least one politico "claiming her staff had been repeatedly trying to make calls to the Edwards but hadn't gotten through." So the politico emailed back the Edwards' home phone number.

via- the Hillary project

British Forces Held By Iran

Updated: 13:28, Friday March 23, 2007

The Government is demanding the "immediate and safe return" of 15 British sailors and Marines seized by Iranian forces.

They were taking part in a routine operation boarding merchant ships in Iraqi territorial waters when they were taken captive by Iranian naval vessels.




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