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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rude Pundit - In Brief: Quotes That Mean as Much Now as When They Were First Said ...
(With a Photo for Context)The quote is from a just-released recording of former President Bill Clinton speaking to a group of business people in Melbourne, Australia, on September 10, 2001 (or "Nine days after everything changed forever and we lost our country" . Clinton was talking about how he might have been able to get to Osama bin Laden: "I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him. And so I didnt do it."
You can tease that out and say that killing those 300 people would have created even more terrorists. Or you can say that those people were accessories to bin Laden by their proximity and that Clinton was a hypocrite because of other missile strikes he ordered or that Bill Clinton was a pussy whose inaction helped cause 9/11 (and then you can merrily go fuck yourself).
The photo is from the Gaza Strip in the last few days. The context is how intractably screwed people are when they don't give a shit about those innocent men, women, and children:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/07/in-brief-quotes-that-mean-as-much-now.html
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The Rude Pundit - In Brief: Quotes That Mean as Much Now as When They Were First Said ... (Original Post)
meegbear
Jul 2014
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Nine days after or one day before? What is the significance of Sept 1, 2001? nt
Electric Monk
Jul 2014
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Truth is,
Plutocracy don't give a shit. Where there is a way of making easy money,F--- the people and I got the money. This whole damn thing is about OIL and GREED. With the so called press being in the hands of 6 people of non color,what do you expect. Good example was the Rethug vote yesterday. And the sideshow continues. Get your butts to the polls in November and vote these twits out.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)2. Nine days after or one day before? What is the significance of Sept 1, 2001? nt
4now
(1,596 posts)3. I don't know how anyone could support killing so many children.