Posted on 02/17/2003 1:23:56 PM PST by darin2risk
Saturday Feb. 15, 2003; 1:01 p.m. EST McCain: North Korea is 'Clinton's Greatest Failure'
When Arizona Sen. John McCain criticizes the White House, his comments usually receive wide coverage in the mainstream press. That is, at least when he criticizes the Bush White House.
However, Sen. McCain's scathing denunciation of the Clinton administration's bungling of the North Korea nuclear crisis this week has yet to appear anywhere it print.
NBC Today Show host Katie Couric asked the celebrated Republican maverick on Wednesday about the advice ex-President Clinton offered the day before, where Clinton urged the Bush administration to begin an "intense, exceedingly high-level engagement" with Pyongyang and then offer "a grand bargain" to resolve the crisis.
"My reaction," said McCain, "is that the greatest failure of the Clinton administration was the agreement they made with North Korea, which allowed them to reach the stage where there are today, where they have nuclear weapons."
"We supported their regime," he continued, "with over a billion dollars and fuel while 2 million of their citizens starved to death (and) 200,000 of their people are in gulags reminiscent of Joseph Stalin."
McCain recommended that the U.S. not negotiate with North Korea, but instead begin intensive talks with China, South Korea, Japan and Russia to force Pyongyang to comply with the nuclear nonproliferation treaty."
Meanwhile, MSNBC, which offered the Clinton and McCain audio on its Web site, claimed in a companion blurb that McCain had also told Couric that the latest Osama bin Laden audiotape "did not necessarily prove a link between al-Qaida and Iraq."
Actually, while Couric did her best to elicit such a comment from the Arizona Republican, he repeatedly confounded her efforts. Here's an excerpt from their exchange:
COURIC: (After quoting from the bin Laden tape) Some might argue, Senator, that it doesn't sound as if these two men (Saddam and Osama) are necessarily in cahoots, but that bin Laden is reaching out to Islamic fundamentalists in Iraq itself.
MCCAIN: Well, I think he does that. But I also think that he's exercising an old Middle Eastern adage that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And clearly he has a common cause with Saddam Hussein and that is the destruction of the West and all the cultures and values that we hold so dear, and the United States of America in particular. (End of Excerpt)
No to have resigned.
DITTO, man, ditto!!
Shock. And you gotta know that about me.
Wrongo Johnny McCraniac!
That distinction belongs to Harry S (for nothing) Truman.
When Shrub was running in 2000, he didn't utter a peep of criticism for Clinton's foreign policies, knowing that the President's approval rating was over 60% and the country had enjoyed 7.5 consecutive years of peace and prosperity. Shrub even said something about how his election would usher in a new era of responsibiility.
What a bunch of lying hypocrites McCain and other Repuke pols have turned into since the Shrub's policies have turned into utter failures!
Amazing, ain't it--how liberal fools like yourself still idolize Clinton and think that the '90's--an era of untold greed, political corruption/capitulation, numerous attacks on the US by terrorists that were never properly investigated or avenged, thus making the terrorist's emboldened by the belief that the US was weak, sexually inapproriate behavior/harassment & alleged rape that were unacceptable if practiced by a conservative, but perfectly acceptable if done by a PC, abortion-supporting sleazoid who lied under oath about his liasons with subordinates who were promised promotions and jobs--was a Golden Age of peace and enlightenment.
Clinton deserves every bit of scorn heaped upon him. He couldn't even keep his pants zipped while talking on the phone about sending our US military men and women into Bosnia. (Monica was servicing the puke.) Knowing you and your worship of Clinton, you probably think that little piece of legacy is a multi-tasking plus in his favor.
I honestly didn't know what to think of Bush Jr. in the last election, but, boy, oh, boy am I ever glad that he is in charge, instead of that wimpy Gore. I just love listening to all of you Bush-haters get yer panties in a wad. (Payback's a witch with a capitol B.) Conservatives do not own the monoploy on hypocrisy. There was a reason that I left the Left behind. All that '90's greed and political subterfuge has come home to roost and all that you and your accursed spawn can do about it is lamely call President Bush "Dumbya," blame America (and Republicans) for 9/11 and all of the world's problems, cover for dictators like Saddamn Hussein, (because the enemy of my enemy is my friend) raise the old 60's spectres of "the rich, white, military/industrial complex conspiracy," (No blood for Oil!) and try to ignore/excuse the combined evils caused by terrorism and communism with psycho-babble that went out with the '60's.
Since 9/11, it's a brave new world out there, honey. It takes leadership and people courageous enough to know that one can't always use diplomacy, reason or total capitulation because of fear or threats from Islamofacists and '60's throwbacks/wannabes who still believe that Sharia, Marxism, and Socialism should rule the world. I'll take Bush and his kind in a nano second. (Of course, an idiot like yourself believes that Bush is Hitler and Saddamn and Osama are just poor, downtrodden victims who are being bullied for no reason what so ever...)
If you were reading FreeRepublic, you'd know that people on here were extremely alarmed at Clinton's sell-outs to the Chinese and North Koreans as well as his negligible response to Al Qaeda terrorism. Of course the big trouble started with Carter and not Clinton...but the Dems still celebrate both of these failed "leaders."
True leaders take responsibility for their decisions and actions. By taking charge and realizing that the first and foremost danger to the world's economy and safety needs to be taken care of by action and not meaningless platitudes like "Make Love, Not War," Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush have displayed more common sense, determination, responsibility and leadership than Bill and that lying doormat, poor-excuse-for-a-feminist Hillary Clinton could ever have in their entire 8 years in office.
That's why the Clinton's are out there front and center making excuses, casting blame and OUT RIGHT DENYING the facts and shameful history of their Administration's policies. Policies that led to a lot of the economic fallout (Wall Street corruption/greed and the Dot Com Boom/Bust) and politically unstable situations (like N. Korea and Osama Bin Laden) that are present today.
Pacifist/masochists. Delusional, too. I am so very glad that I left the Left behind. The left will ignore, excuse or turn a corrupt, criminal, highly-questionable act done by their own kind into an act of "victimhood." Or they will just LIE about it--even when caught red-handed and done in by their own foolish, hole-ridden arguments. Stalin and Hitler of the "Big Lie" would be proud of their achievements. They have no shame. Conservatives are not afraid to take responsibilty for their own actions. They also expect their leaders to do so accordingly. Time will tell.
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