To All The FREEPERS Here, Lurking, Disrupting, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE (MORANS)!!1! THIS IS HUGH!11!1!

[berni_mccoy]

Well, maybe not that hugh!1!!!, but it's worth checking out, I'm series!!!1!

I don't normally post this kind of stuff, but, well, here it is: http://tinyurl.com/tanu

[annabanana]

1. It is good to remember just who's mess this is...

AND IT AIN'T CLINTON

[spanone]

2. lemme be the first

well, second is ok too

[gateley]

3. They were too involved in dealing with the REAL threat - sex in the Oval Office. nt

[yardwork]

4. My favorite quote, from none other than Senator Hatch

"If they want to, they can study the thing" already, Hatch asserted. He also said he had some problems with the president's proposals to expand wiretapping.

[Redstone]

5. Uh, but, but, but, uh...CLENIS!

Redstone

[stillcool]

6. tee-he-he...

love those internets...

[AlCzervik]

7. Clinton!!!!!!!! Shakes fist in air.

[Sweet Freedom]

8. Oh, and this too

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/clarke%20memo.pdf

[Sweet Freedom]

9. And perhaps this as well

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/clarke.rice/index.html

[wildbilln864]

10. hugh?

What is that? I think you meant huge. :hi:

[TheDoorbellRang]

12. That's an inside joke here

FYI, these are favorite misspellings gleaned from freeperville

"hugh" = "huge"
"moran" = "moron"
"series" = "serious"
"screwn" = "screwed"

About once every month or so, someone does an OP wondering why everyone here spells "moron" incorrectly. Stay tuned and you're sure to see the classic "moran."


:hi:

[berni_mccoy]

13. Ohhh, I SCREWN It up so bad !!!1!1! I forgot SCREWN!!1!1

And don't forget the emphasis of !!1!!1

[TheDoorbellRang]

16. Thanks!!11!! Thank Providense, I might even say!1!1!1

:rofl:

Some days, we just need something to keep us laughing, eh?

[hootinholler]

18. Stop casting asparagus!!11!11!! I'm SERIES!!1!

:rofl:

-Hoot

[TheDoorbellRang]

20. There's a morel here somewhere

We could go on and on, couldn't we? :rofl:

[wildbilln864]

15. Oh OK, thanks.....

yes I've seen the moran joke here. Or read about it I should say I guess.

[AntiFascist]

11. The amazing thing also....

Scaife and other Republicans were trying to pin Clinton on involvement in a cocaine drug ring operating out of Mena Airport in Arkansas. A little deeper probing would have revealed a major CIA drug running operation tied to Iran/Contra and BCCI. This is what the neocon Republicans are brilliant at: smoke and mirrors, diverting attention away from the real source of the drug/terror problem and diverting it instead toward Republican enemies - Clinton in this case, or in the case of post 9-11, Saddam Hussein.

[EFerrari]

14. Hussein wasn't post 9/11. He was post Florida 2000. n/t

[AntiFascist]

17. That's true....

but what I meant was the use of Hussein as a key target for terrorism after 9-11.

[moodforaday]

19. Do you trust Clinton didn't know

what was going on at Mena? Just asking.

[AntiFascist]

21. I wouldn't know....

there is this, from a website I'd rather not link to:

Unlike almost every other Clinton scandal, this one in non-partisan -- it actually began with Bush and Oliver North, and still seems to implicate them much more than the President.

In a nutshell, it's pretty well established that both weapons for the Contras and cocaine were smuggled through the small, obscure airport in Mena, Arkansas during the 1980s and late 1970s. But other than the fact that Clinton was governor during part of this time, there really isn't much of a link to him. There is a lot of drug smuggling in Florida, but no one assumes that Florida Governor Jeb Bush is connected to it. The Contra operation of course was run by the Reagan/Bush White House.

So when you read about Barry Seal or Kevin Ives and Don Henry (two teens apparently killed because they knew about drug deals), the charges are partly true but mostly unconnected. Yes, these guys all were killed because they got too close to drug smugglers, but there is no evidence connecting any of it to Clinton. Clinton-haters try to make hay out of his brother's personal cocaine habit, or Bill's admitted pot smoking, but that's ridiculous.

On the other hand, there seem to be well-respected writers who think there may have been more of a connection between Clinton and the CIA:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00058.htm

In Partners in Power Morris has established that Mena was not only a point of transfer of drugs for arms to the Nicaraguan Contras but that it was a drugs distribution “hub” linked to US airports in half a dozen or so other states. And that Bill and Hillary Clinton essentially knew about the operation from the start.

...

You suggest in your book, Partners in Power , based on what you describe as “a numbing accumulation” of evidence following numerous trips to Arkansas,100 interviews and the review of thousands of documents – that Bill and Hillary Clinton, as Governor and First Lady of Arkansas, knew about the ongoing CIA drugs & gun running by CIA asset Barry Seal, et al., out of Mena’s Intermountain Regional Airport in the Ouachitas in the 1980s. The operation armed the Nicaraguan Contras and delivered $3 billion to $5 billion worth of cocaine for distribution throughout the American homeland – as you note, “the single largest cocaine smuggling operation in US history”.

But wasn’t a CIA rogue operation already in place in and around Mena prior to the Clintons assuming office in 1983, so that the Clintons didn’t even have to choose between champagne, roses and promotion to higher office – and torture & exile? Bill and Hillary made their pact with the Devil by accepting a second term – Mena was part of the job.

...

Since the book was published, I’ve had people come forward and tell me that they knew much more than even the informants I was talking to, and I was talking to people who were retired from the Agency, who were quite categorical about Bill Clinton having been a source for Operation Chaos and for informing on American students abroad while he was at Oxford and all the rest.