US Elections 2008: Hillary and Billary

It is hard to see real face of the Clintons, we found it easy to look through the prism of the past.

Average working American hardly remembers 2-3 things about Bill Clinton's presidency. All the high achievements were overshadowed by scandal with an White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Also, fresh in everyone's mind Bill's ordeal with impeachment.

People say he was lucky, if he was an officer of US Army or any other governmental office, he could end up in the jail at least for several years.

According to some analysts Hillary did not want to mention impeachment, or any other negative events from the past. Some suggest that the past will hunt her down, it will always be on people's minds, surfacing on the net.

OBL - Osama Bin Laden was to be handled by Saudi authorities to US and Bill called OBL "hot potato" and did not move a finger to prevent rise of Al-Qaeda. WTC bombings proved Al-Qaeda direct involvement in terrorist acts on US soil. Such miscalculations are grave for the politicians, and for Hillary it will be hard to prove that she is strong on defense.

In recent interview to CBS Bill said ""I still believe, as I always have, that the biggest terrorist threat by far is al Qaeda and the al Qaeda network." Was Bill remembering "hot potato" OBL.

Madeline Albright- was one of the major factors in weakness in US international policy. Growing Islamic movements openly supported terrorism were not taken seriously and issues of global security were not calculated through. In fact Madleine Albright says in her letter to "Path to 9/11" that she supported air strikes on OBL in Pakistan, but the retaliation for USS Cole bombing where 2 air strikes in the middle of nowhere.

Janet Reno/Jamie Gorelick - Memorandum by which intelligence surveillance and investigation was separated, obstructing collaboration and information share between departments. The Intelligence system was brought to its dysfunctional state by inexperienced deputy.
In his book "Never Again J.Ashcroft says when he took the office in 200, FBI was operating on low technology levels, dozens of different systems did not share information and information flow simply was impossible. At the time when everyone in US household had scanner printer and laptop, documents at the offices FBI where all hardcopies and it was impossible to collect intelligence. quick.

Al Gore/Tripper Gore - together make Clintons life easier. Tripper appointed by Bill Clinton in NTSB / FAA investigation commission virtually kills airport security and help airlines to save on security such as Air Marshals and Cockpit security.

The Clintons had time to make any changes in US policies and economic development. They both had 12 years and did not make our life easier. Weak on defense Hillary denounced her support for the war last week. Will Hillary be able to negotiate with Iran, N.Korea, Russia? Would she take strong steps to retaliate any attacks on US soil?

This is just first sign of inherited problems and haunted past for the Clintons. It is just hard to separate two Hillary and Billary both masters of the spoken word, and never doing anything.
Vladimir Dubchak