TerryinMD
Veteran Member
Here is an article from the Washington Times about a speech ol' Billy Boy recently gave.
There he goes....
I'll reserve my comment.
Terry
There he goes....
I'll reserve my comment.
Terry
Clinton just never goes away...
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TonyC
Platinum Member
Yeah, I'm with you. I'll reserve my comments too except to say I wish he'd follow the example of other past presidents and GO AWAY!
JayC
Veteran Member
I totally agree too. I wish he'd just go away. He is SO stuck on himself. It seems like, even though Bush is president, when Clinton ever speaks, the dumb media will pay more attention to Clinton than Bush. That makes me mad every time. Not just Clinton, but the whole dumb media is liberal. Anyone here, ever see the videos Clinton Chronicles and Obstruction of Justice. Those just show how CORRUPT Clinton and his coronies were.
If you read the other version...now read this one: the author didn't even need to change that many words...
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Bin Laden calls terror a U.S. debt to past
***** Bin-Laden, the former Saudi, said yesterday that terror has existed in America for hundreds of years and the nation is "paying a price today" for its past of slavery and for looking "the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed."
"Here in the United States, you were founded as a nation that practiced slavery, and slaves quite frequently were killed even though they were innocent," said Mr. Bin Laden in a speech to nearly 1,000 students at Georgetown University's ornate Gaston Hall.
"Your country once looked the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human. "And you are still paying a price today," said Mr. Bin Laden, who was invited to address the students by the university's School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Bin Laden, wearing a gray robe and orange turban, arrived 45 minutes late for the event. Some students camped out overnight to obtain tickets. The former Saudi, a multi millionaire from a prominent Saudi family, opened his 50-minute speech by thanking a former teacher.
"He never abandoned me over all these years, even though he did not succeed in convincing me to become a Jesuit," said Mr. Bin Laden, drawing laughter and then cheers from the almost entirely white crowd of students. Mr. Bin Laden spoke from notes about the world after September 11. He sought to dispel fears of terrorism and "this anthrax business."
"I submit to you that Islam is now in a struggle for the soul of the 21st century and the world in which you students will live to raise your own children and make your own way," he said.
Mr. Bin Laden said the international terrorism that has only just reached the United States dates back thousands of years.
"In the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was a Muslim on the Temple Mount. I can tell you that story is still being told today in the Middle East and you are still paying for it."
Mr. Bin Laden said America needs to pay more attention to Islam and to the way the United States is viewed by the rest of the world.
"There are a lot of people that see the world differently than you do. It is quite important that you do more to build the pool of potential partners in the world and to shrink the pool of potential terrorists. And that has nothing to do with fighting, but that has to do with what else you do.
"This is partly a Muslim issue, because there is a war raging within Islam. You need to reach out and engage the Islamic world in a debate."
Mr. Bin Laden referred to stories in the media about some American citizens cheering the terrorist attacks and suspected Islamic terrorists.
"This debate is going on all over America. You've got to stop pretending this isn't out there," he said.
Addressing matters of globalization, Mr. Bin Laden pondered the importance of such issues as technology, poverty, democracy, diversity, the environment, disease and terrorism.
"Here's how I think you ought to think about it," he said. "You cannot ignore the fact that you have vulnerability at home because of your interdependence."
The answer, Mr. Bin Laden said, is to spread Islam, reduce global poverty, forgive billions in debt, improve health care systems and encourage — even fund — education in developing countries.
"You ought to pay for these children to go to school — a lot cheaper than going to war," he said.
Perhaps most important, he said, is Islam.
"It's no accident that most of these terrorists come from Islamic countries. You live in a country where you're never required to take responsibility for yourself, where you never even have to ask whether there's something you should be doing to solve your own problems, then people are kept in kind of a permanent state of collective immaturity and it becomes quite easy for them to believe that someone else's success is the cause of their distress. Your Democratic party promotes these things every day. Florida is my proof.
"Islam thinks we can find their redemption in your destruction. And then we have to be smart enough to get rid of your arrogant self-righteousness so that you don't claim for yourselves things you deny to others."
The former Saudi, who left his cave just 10 days ago after an eight-week tenure, said the American government is "woefully" lacking on several key terrorism-prevention areas.
"You need to strengthen your capacity to give away money, and you need some legislation on that," said Mr. Bin Laden, coincidentally on the same day President Bush, who has made freezing terrorist assets a "front" of his war on terrorism, announced the United States has moved to block the assets of 62 persons and groups associated with two financial networks linked to bin Laden.
"And one area where you are woefully lacking is the simple use of modern computer tech to track people that come into this country," he said.
While he criticized "the governmental policies" now, he said "you all must support Islam in whatever decision they make."
"This is not a perfect society but it is stumbling in the right direction," he said.
At the end of his speech, Mr. Bin Laden — who has been responsible for launching numerous terrorist attacks against US targets — said the entire issue revolves around "the nature of truth."
"This battle fundamentally is about what you think about the nature of truth," he said, noting that God has imposed on us the inability to ever know "the whole truth."
He also championed women's rights in America, saying the reason "you see all those sanctimonious guys beating those women with sticks" is because the country's rulers demand strict adherence to the rules.
Students crowded around to shake the former Saudi’s hand after his speech. There were no detractors in the crowd, despite the fact that the university newspaper in September 1998 called on Mr. Bin Laden, then mired in scandal, to turn himself in.
"The American public," the Hoya said in a 1998 editorial, "has forgotten that international and domestic terrorism requires a proactive defense plan. Terrorists must be caught before they strike, and we must remember that those strikes always come when our head is turned toward other matters."
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Bin Laden calls terror a U.S. debt to past
***** Bin-Laden, the former Saudi, said yesterday that terror has existed in America for hundreds of years and the nation is "paying a price today" for its past of slavery and for looking "the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed."
"Here in the United States, you were founded as a nation that practiced slavery, and slaves quite frequently were killed even though they were innocent," said Mr. Bin Laden in a speech to nearly 1,000 students at Georgetown University's ornate Gaston Hall.
"Your country once looked the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human. "And you are still paying a price today," said Mr. Bin Laden, who was invited to address the students by the university's School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Bin Laden, wearing a gray robe and orange turban, arrived 45 minutes late for the event. Some students camped out overnight to obtain tickets. The former Saudi, a multi millionaire from a prominent Saudi family, opened his 50-minute speech by thanking a former teacher.
"He never abandoned me over all these years, even though he did not succeed in convincing me to become a Jesuit," said Mr. Bin Laden, drawing laughter and then cheers from the almost entirely white crowd of students. Mr. Bin Laden spoke from notes about the world after September 11. He sought to dispel fears of terrorism and "this anthrax business."
"I submit to you that Islam is now in a struggle for the soul of the 21st century and the world in which you students will live to raise your own children and make your own way," he said.
Mr. Bin Laden said the international terrorism that has only just reached the United States dates back thousands of years.
"In the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was a Muslim on the Temple Mount. I can tell you that story is still being told today in the Middle East and you are still paying for it."
Mr. Bin Laden said America needs to pay more attention to Islam and to the way the United States is viewed by the rest of the world.
"There are a lot of people that see the world differently than you do. It is quite important that you do more to build the pool of potential partners in the world and to shrink the pool of potential terrorists. And that has nothing to do with fighting, but that has to do with what else you do.
"This is partly a Muslim issue, because there is a war raging within Islam. You need to reach out and engage the Islamic world in a debate."
Mr. Bin Laden referred to stories in the media about some American citizens cheering the terrorist attacks and suspected Islamic terrorists.
"This debate is going on all over America. You've got to stop pretending this isn't out there," he said.
Addressing matters of globalization, Mr. Bin Laden pondered the importance of such issues as technology, poverty, democracy, diversity, the environment, disease and terrorism.
"Here's how I think you ought to think about it," he said. "You cannot ignore the fact that you have vulnerability at home because of your interdependence."
The answer, Mr. Bin Laden said, is to spread Islam, reduce global poverty, forgive billions in debt, improve health care systems and encourage — even fund — education in developing countries.
"You ought to pay for these children to go to school — a lot cheaper than going to war," he said.
Perhaps most important, he said, is Islam.
"It's no accident that most of these terrorists come from Islamic countries. You live in a country where you're never required to take responsibility for yourself, where you never even have to ask whether there's something you should be doing to solve your own problems, then people are kept in kind of a permanent state of collective immaturity and it becomes quite easy for them to believe that someone else's success is the cause of their distress. Your Democratic party promotes these things every day. Florida is my proof.
"Islam thinks we can find their redemption in your destruction. And then we have to be smart enough to get rid of your arrogant self-righteousness so that you don't claim for yourselves things you deny to others."
The former Saudi, who left his cave just 10 days ago after an eight-week tenure, said the American government is "woefully" lacking on several key terrorism-prevention areas.
"You need to strengthen your capacity to give away money, and you need some legislation on that," said Mr. Bin Laden, coincidentally on the same day President Bush, who has made freezing terrorist assets a "front" of his war on terrorism, announced the United States has moved to block the assets of 62 persons and groups associated with two financial networks linked to bin Laden.
"And one area where you are woefully lacking is the simple use of modern computer tech to track people that come into this country," he said.
While he criticized "the governmental policies" now, he said "you all must support Islam in whatever decision they make."
"This is not a perfect society but it is stumbling in the right direction," he said.
At the end of his speech, Mr. Bin Laden — who has been responsible for launching numerous terrorist attacks against US targets — said the entire issue revolves around "the nature of truth."
"This battle fundamentally is about what you think about the nature of truth," he said, noting that God has imposed on us the inability to ever know "the whole truth."
He also championed women's rights in America, saying the reason "you see all those sanctimonious guys beating those women with sticks" is because the country's rulers demand strict adherence to the rules.
Students crowded around to shake the former Saudi’s hand after his speech. There were no detractors in the crowd, despite the fact that the university newspaper in September 1998 called on Mr. Bin Laden, then mired in scandal, to turn himself in.
"The American public," the Hoya said in a 1998 editorial, "has forgotten that international and domestic terrorism requires a proactive defense plan. Terrorists must be caught before they strike, and we must remember that those strikes always come when our head is turned toward other matters."
PitbullMidwest
Platinum Member
<font color=blue>If you read the other version...now read this one: the author didn't even need to change that many words...</font color=blue>
Excellent satire, almost frightening.
Excellent satire, almost frightening.