Congress Republicans Worked With Taliban to Oust Clinton
That was attention grabbing, wasn't it?
This story in the Washington Post describes a suggestion passed by a representative of the Taliban regime to the State Department in 1998 that, in the wake of US missile strikes in Afghanistan, US credibility in the Islamic world would improve if Congress could force Clinton to resign. Now, you may recall that at about that time there was a move afoot in Congress to do just that. Congress went so far as to impeach Big Bill, over something like lying under oath about having an affair, but come on, how plausible is that? A nation as powerful and a people as sophisticated as ours would impeach a president over stains on a blue dress? Yeah, right. We don't even impeach Presidents for lying to Congress and the American people about the reason for going to war, for lying to Congress and the American people about the cost of Medicare "reform" bills. A little sex scandal? It is to laugh.
No, clearly what was at play here was a Republican-Taliban-Al Qaeda plot to force Clinton out, weakening the Democrats to the point where a Republican candidate would win the Presidential election and ignore Al Qaeda until it could carry out a devastating attack on America's psyche, whereupon the President would pretend to try to capture Osama Bin Laden, just long enough to set up a war in Iraq for the enrichment of US oil companies and to create a wonderful cash cow for Halliburton. The Taliban government would have to be ousted, but that would just be for a little while. Once the US invaded Iraq we could go back to ignoring Afghanistan and the Taliban could creep back into power.
The impeachment plot failed, so it took a rigged Supreme Court decision to put a Republican in office instead, but the result was the same.
Did this really happen? Well, I just made most of it up, so probably not. Does that make any difference? What do you think? How's that Al-Qaeda-9/11-Saddam Hussein link developing? Is any of this any less plausible than that a young college graduate would enlist in the Navy so he could get sent to Vietnam so he could get some combat decorations which would enable him thirty some years later to run for president as a war hero?
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