Madeleine And Sandy

Time to pull out my favorite bits on these two folks after reading Howard Kurtz:

Top officials of the Clinton administration have launched a preemptive strike against an ABC-TV "docudrama," slated to air Sunday and Monday, that they say includes made-up scenes depicting them as undermining attempts to kill Osama bin Laden.

Former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright called one scene involving her "false and defamatory." Former national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger said the film "flagrantly misrepresents my personal actions."

Defamatory? Would Madeleine say the same thing about this quote:

First, Baugh played a CBS-TV "60 Minutes" segment from May 1996 that reported an estimated 500,000 Iraqi children had died from the economic sanctions imposed on August 6, 1990, days after Saddam Hussein's troops invaded Kuwait. Since the war ended with Iraqi's withdrawal in 1991, the number of Iraqi civilian casualties has more than doubled, according to various international aid groups.

"I think this is a very hard choice, but the price -- we think the price is worth it," said Albright, who was then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, which imposed and still maintains the sanctions. Hussein subsequently recognized Kuwait and allowed weapons inspectors into Iraq.

Half a million children and the price was worth it to the compassionate Left. And of course everyone knows about Sandy's concern for his personal actions and his desire to set the record straight.

On July 19, 2004, it was revealed that the U.S. Justice Department was investigating Berger for taking as many as fifty classified documents, in October 2003, from a National Archives reading room prior to testifying before the 9/11 Commission. The documents were commissioned from Richard Clarke about the Clinton administration's handling of millennium terror threats. When initially questioned, Berger claimed that the removal of top-secret documents in his attache-case and handwritten notes in his pants and jacket pockets was accidental. He would later, in a guilty plea, admit to deliberately removing materials and then cutting them up with scissors. Some suggested that Berger's removal of the documents constituted theft and moreover had serious national security implications, while others claimed that the documents were taken, only drafts and all were flattering to Clinton and Berger (relating to the failed 2000 millennium attack plots).

I'd say that almost puts the record straight. Berger should be singing the blues from jail and Albright will go down in history as one of the least effective UN Ambassadors and Secretaries of State we've ever had, not to mention her pathetic tenure in the Carter administration. Now there was a fiasco in foreign affairs.

But they are still both out there shilling for dear old Bill. I wonder what he and Hillary have on them.

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Re "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price -- we think the price is worth it," said Albright"

This makes me want to puke. The horror is that monsters such as Albright might be returning to power after Bush leaves office.