[Peace-discuss] Clinton administration

[C. G. Estabrook]

John Pilger writes of "the moral corruption of the liberal ideology that 
courted and acclaimed Clinton ... 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."

--CGE