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In 1997, Bill Clinton's penis became the first penis in White House history to have a formal statement issued on its behalf - in terms of its "size, shape, direction, whatever", as Clinton's lawyer Bob Bennett put it. It was also the first to be photographed by a naval surgeon as Exhibit A in a sexual harassment case.
President Clinton was a well-loved president, despite his reputation as a womanizer. He was an intelligent man, and a Rhodes scholar. He could work a room. So far, the democrats have been unable to field another candidate with even a fraction of his charm and charisma and ability to win elections. In his two terms of office, the economy was gangbusters, and we largely avoided any war at all.
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June 26 1993 By order of president Clinton,the U.S. fires 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles in response to a plot to assassinate former President Bush with a car bomb when he traveled to Kuwait the previous April. The plot is linked to Iraqi intelligence.
ReplyDeleteIn feb 1998 In order to marshal public support for U.S. military strikes against Iraq, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Secretary of Defense William Cohen, and National Security Adviser Samuel Berger attend a town meeting at Ohio State University. The three are confronted by angry audience members and it becomes clear that the U.S. does not have domestic support for a war against Iraq.
In December 1998, Saddam ends Iraqi cooperation with UNSCOM and accuses the U.N. of espionage. On Dec. 15, UNSCOM Chairman Richard Butler reports that the Iraqis are refusing to cooperate with inspectors and the next day, President Clinton -- on the eve of the House impeachment vote -- orders Operation Desert Fox, a four-day bombardment of key Iraqi military installations. It is conducted without U.N. Security Council approval.
Make no mistake about it,the Clinton Administration DID want to have some type of military involvement/strikes against Iraq.
The man got caught with his pants down and was told that with the Lewinsky affair already putting him under public scrutiny, a military move aginst Iraq would have doomed him. His penis actually kept us out of a war. So not only was his peis photographed, it was able to fortell the future.
Maybe that's why Clinton hasn't been really going after Dubbya's stance against Iraq..It may be rooted more in some twisted moralistic idealism, but maybe Clinton wanted to do the same:
ReplyDelete"Kofi Annan worked out a deal, a face-saving deal, and Clinton decided -- and this was, of course, in the middle of Monica -- that he would take the face-saving deal and backed away from the use of force. So there's a kind of wishfulness, I think, to Clinton's world view. He hoped these multilateral agreements or bilateral agreements could replace the exertion of U.S. force, and I don't think they do."
WILLIAM KRISTOL, V.P. Chief of Staff, '89-'93: