What's the most outrageous thing you've heard Clinton get blamed for?

For me it's the Iraq war. Dunno if it fits into the blamed category but here in Denver, there's a guy who appears around town with a sign that says "Clinton is a rapist."

killed on rail road tracks.

Clinton put him there over a cocaine deal gone bad.

For me, it's the Iraq war too...

And assorted other corpses he was supposedly responsible for.

Remember the "Clinton Body Count"?

By the way, it never got anywhere NEAR 2,400.

Vince Foster was way down the list of people Bubba would want dead. Bush did kill Wellstone though.

Even though he stopped the millenium attacks.

But it wouldn't surprize me a bit to find out that Schimpanski did the deed on Wellstone. Clearly nothing's beneath him.

because he didn't like him

...was a guy who'd skiied into a tree, a la Sonny Bono.

Clinton planted the tree.

back in 1998, when gas prices went all the way up to the "outrageous" price of - gasp - over $1 a gallon, my right wing family members stood around bitching about him and gas prices for fifteen minutes at one family gathering!

Seemingly, this is happening because they look up to Clinton as an example.

:rofl:

... that was my first thought, too!!!!!

We all know that no one ever engaged in this practice before Bill invented it, right?

:rofl:

he wasn't around in 1961 don't see you can blame him too much for that.

Encouraging cigar smoking maybe. :rofl:

unfortunately it's pretty much true :shrug:

Those sanctions?

But as the 1990's progressed, human rights activists and many members of the UN wanted to ease the sanctions when the death toll became evident. Unfortunately, the Clinton administration used the threat of its veto power to keep the sanctions in effect. I was active and involved in human rights issues then, I remember this stuff pretty vividly.

As Madeleine Albright said, as quoted in this excellent article:

When asked on US television if she thought that the death of half a million Iraqi children was a price worth paying, Albright replied: "This is a very hard choice, but we think the price is worth it."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,232986,00.html


Even Rep John Conyers was part of a bipartisan effort to convince Clinton to agree to lift the sanctions (I dunno about the source, but the best I could find on a quick search - facts are facts, I guess):

Authored by Representatives Tom Campbell(R) and John Conyers (D) the letter
calls for the president to "de-link economic sanctions from the military
sanctions currently in place against Iraq." They go on to present some
established sources on the deadly impact of sanctions on the Iraqi people,
along with platitudes about Iraq's need to 'comply with UN resolutions and
international norms'. They conclude by asking President Clinton "…to do what
is right: lift the sanctions. At the same time, we support the continued
embargo on military equipment and materials."
http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/1999/msg00785.html

Another random excerpt, again, from quickly googled sources:

The Clinton administration, which is the principal backer of sanctions, has vowed to use its veto in the United Nations Security Council to prevent them from being lifted. It has not, however, ruled out supporting expansion of a U.N. program under which Iraq is allowed to sell limited amounts of oil and use part of the income to buy food and medicine.---snip---
U.N. humanitarian workers here are among the most outspoken critics. Their last chief, Denis Halliday, resigned his post in protest three months ago and said sanctions "are starving to death 6,000 Iraqi infants every month, ignoring the human rights of ordinary Iraqis and turning a whole generation against the West."
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/smrtbmb.htm




Some relevent articles:
http://www.accuracy.org/article.php?articleId=42

http://www.commondreams.org/views/022100-102.htm

Here's a google search of all mentions of this problem at the United Nation's own website:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Iraq+Sanctions+Children&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=www.un.org&as_rights=&safe=images

Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Arkansas-Texas Football game. Richard Nixon in attendance. Local conservative lore had Bill Clinton up in a tree protesting the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon's visit. Many in town still believe the story. On 6 December 1969, the day of the football game, Bill Clinton was in London. Surely not the most outrageous thing but the first one that popped into my head. In other words, at least 37 years of dogging the man with lies, distortions and untruths.

And was the mastermind behind 'New Coke.'

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:sarcasm:

now prez and republicans control congress, and that under Clinton presidency there was surplus & consensus w/ congress to balance the budget....

Sorry wish I could provide you with some logic that led this person to this conclusion-- but there is none.

for growing the GOP.

On one board I visit some poster keeps claiming Bush just followed "Clinton's policy of regime change". Clinton didn't suggest invasion, he proposed supporting the opposition and working the diplomatic angle. That's like claiming you cut off someones arm to cure an infection that the doc suggested penicillin for. Bush never did a thing he didn't consider to be his own idea anyway, and if he did follow anyones orders it wouldn't have been Clinton. Just a talking point for those who aren't paying attention.

Clinton left a huge budgetary surplus. Shit-for-Brains immediately turned it around to a record deficit. The absurd wingnuts want to blame that on Clinton.





(And it has gotten a lot worse since 2004)