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1. Carol Johnson

   September 13th, 2006 at 6:59 am

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   And, dear God…save us from this:

   AMERICA THE VULNERABLE
   A DISASTER IS JUST WAITING TO HAPPEN IF IRAQ UNLEASHES ITS POISONS AND GERMS

   By BRUCE W. NELAN – TIME MAGAZINE, NOV 24TH 1997

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   “SADDAM HUSSEIN‚ÄôS UNWATCHED arsenal of poisons and germs can redouble the threat to America, and the terrorists are already among us. That message fairly screamed at Americans last week. In the shadow of the World Trade Center, the target of a bombing in 1993, New York City began the week with a drill involving 600 police, fire fighters and FBI agents responding to a mock attack by terrorists supposedly using deadly VX nerve gas, which Iraq has produced in vast quantities. The following day in Fairfax, VA., a jury convicted Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani, of assassinating two CIA employees in 1993. The day after that, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the ‚Äúmastermind‚Äù of the World Trade Center bombing, and his driver were found guilty in a federal court in New York City.

   An aftershock of the CIA-case conviction hit in Karachi, Pakistan, where four American auditors were shot to death, along with their driver, as they went to work at the local office of Union Texas Petroleum. In rush hour traffic, two gunmen with assault rifles pulled up beside the Americans’ station wagon, got out and riddled them with bullets, then drove away. It could have been a replay of the way Kasi killed two people and wounded three as they waited to make the turn into CIA headquarters one morning almost five years ago. A Pakistani group calling itself the Aimal Secret Committee said it had acted in retaliation for Kasi’s conviction. In Fairfax, jurors in the case asked the judge if they were in any danger, and he responded by sequestering them and ordering their names sealed.

   In other words, yes, they are in danger. Americans no longer believe their country is immune from terrorism, as they did for decades, and they are spending big money to fight the threat ‚Äì more than $400 million in federal counterterror programs alone. State and local efforts are becoming more serious too; the New York City drill is an example. But experts insist the country is essentially insecure. The borders are porous, the government cannot keep track of routine visa violators, and the population is forever on the move. The U.S. is a sea into which evildoers can dive and remain submerged. Terrorists, like anyone else, have little difficulty obtaining guns or the simple makings for oil-barrel truck bombs. Now the new terror could be an even more lethal destroyer ‚Äì microbes. Germ weapons are small, cheap, easy to hide, simple to dispense and horribly effective. They may be the threat of the near future.”

   THIS is the “legacy” Clinton left us! Are we going to get fooled again?!!

   Carol

   I have more from this article but decided not to post because of its length. There is more…MUCH more…and its very ugly!

2. DaleinAtlanta

   September 13th, 2006 at 7:24 am

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   Carol: Hi, I’d like to see the whole thing; where can I get it?

   R/dale

3. Carol Johnson

   September 13th, 2006 at 7:45 am

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   Dale,

   You may be able to get it by finding the archive at Time Magazine. That is the actual title of the article and the author’s name is Bruce W. Nelan. It is part of an entire issue, the cover of which you can see over at Flopping Aces:

   http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/09/10/facing-down-a-despot/

   The issue’s cover has Clinton facing a huge pair of Saddam eyes glaring at him. The issue’s title is SHOWDOWN.

   There are also four or five sidebar articles that are extremely “enlightening” on just what was going on back then. I am trying to get Curt at FA to blog more on these articles mainly because I don’t have my own blog and I feel that people really NEED to know what they are buying into with Hillary lusting after the same office.

   I have had this issue (in print form) for a few years. It just doesn’t get any plainer than this for why we MUST keep the Congress and the White House in the hands of those who care for this country’s survival.

   Carol

4. Carol Johnson

   September 13th, 2006 at 8:17 am

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   Dale,

   My bad. Here is the “actual” link to the whole issue. Scroll down to the “World” section and you will see several related articles…read them all:

   http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601971124,00.html

   Good reading.

   Carol

5. Merry Whitney

   September 13th, 2006 at 8:33 am

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   I’d like to make a slight addition to the “first President to…” list.

   Clinton was also the first President to make “acceptable” the fictitious use of another US President as a rapist: A prize-winning 1999 (I think) novel, and other than that inexcusable drafting of a president as rapist, an excellent bit of historical fiction, has Grover Cleveland as rapist of a school marm, who was impregnated by the rape.

   For the story line, a rape of the fictitious heroine by a powerful figure was good plotting — but a “powerful figure” certainly didn’t have to be a real person, let alone a US president. I don’t think it could have gotten past the editors without then-current allegations about Clinton.

   The novel, “City of Light,” was set in Niagara and Buffalo, NY, around the beginning of use of Niagara for electricty.