Why do so many harp on Bush family ties to the Saudis, but do not mention Clinton's ties?

Question

The New York Sun on Nov. 22, '04 reported that President Clinton’s library was funded in part by gifts of $1m or more each from the Saudi royal family & 3 Saudi businessmen. The governments of Dubai, Kuwait, & Qatar & the deputy prime minister of Lebanon all also appear to have donated $1m or more.

On October 10, 2005, CNN reported that Ex-FBI Director, Louis Freesh, said Clinton failed to seek Saudi cooperation in the investigation into the Khobar Towers attack of '96, which killed 19 U.S. airmen, that he effectively closed the investigation down. He said Clinton opted to press then-Crown Prince Abdullah for a donation to his presidential library instead.

Freesh said no access to Saudi suspects was allowed until Former President Bush intervened & asked Abdullah for assistance.

Freesh had written a letter to Janet Reno asking for an Independent Counsel to look into this & other campaign/finance violations, but Reno refused to do so.

Why is this info overlooked by the Clinton crowd?

Bert, the Clintons waited until June of this year to sell off a blind trust that held between $5-25m in oil company stock, so that Hillary wouldn't be 'embarrassed' by their holdings during the election.

Illogical - and Barbara Olsen lost her life in the Pentagon crash after attempting to take Clinton to the mat over his pardons of 16 Cuban terrorists, known to have killed at least 5 NYC residents - and they nor, no one in their families even asked for the pardons! They were part of his last minute pardons that circumvented normal FBI procedure. - no appologies there....

ive - i much prefer the picture of the prez holding hands with the Saudi Prince to the one of Hillary kissing the cheek of Arafat's wife.

Joe, you have at least partially touched upon my point, but I must say the relationship of the Bushes & the Saudi Royal Family seems to be one of mutual respect and honor. Unlike what Clinton displayed during his pandering for money at any cost to our national safety escapade.

Joe, what amazes me is how you don't think any of this is relevant or, even worthy of conversation.

artfan - his wife is vying to put him back into the WH and probably in the driver's seat. EVERYTHING Clinton did is relevant to this conversation.

stygianw - EXACTLY!

Thank you for reminding me.

Answer 1

You forgot about Gore and his oil families stock fund also.(occidental)
Whether Clinton ran oil companies or not is stupid,his hands were out for the money I'm sure.I'm still trying to figure out why nobody's harping on the Clintons and their Chinese connections(and Campaign contributions),aside from selling them(China) Highly classified technology through business deals during Bills presidency,which gave China better missle technology.

Answer 2

What's wrong with these people! You would think the Clintons could get away with murder, no pun intended. Got to admit rank wildcats in Texas are what, 1 in 12, whereas the odds of turning $5,000 into $100,000 in the commodity market* dealing with cattle futures are like Cleveland or Minnesota being in the Superbowl at the start of the year, what 75-100 to 1.

The pardons, the money, the scummy attacks on the poor women. It is amazing that they have gotten this far. Did anyone do the math on the Rwandan deal. The Arab nation stuff is even more astronomical. What's more astronomical is that she is pulling in more as a Jr. senator than the rest @ $450,000.*

Hey I understand your pain. Take care.

Answer 3

Well, his goal was to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, the son of a personal friend of Bush 43. How well he has done on this goal with the best spy equipment the world has ever known tells you exactly how close the Bush families ties to Saudi Arabia are.

Answer 4

So I guess your point is that two wrongs make a right. Right? Wrong. The democrats and republicans are both corrupt parties. As John Edwards has said, a corporate dem is no different than a corporate republican.

The Clinton "crowd" may overlook this as you suggested but there's another crowd, a much larger one of voters and nonvoters who see no difference in both parties. The two-party system is right next to a dictatorship like Cuba. Sure, we have three-parties, but the winner-takes-all system almost ensures they don't get elected to higher offices like in the executive branch and congress.

We've had either a democrat or republican as president since the beginning, and unless this changes, there will be no major change benefiting the majority rather than minority groups. Essentially, leaders are corrupt. If we don't scrap the representative democracy (an oxymoron as far as I'm concerned) system, than at least let people have more say into the formulation of public policies or what we vote on.

Answer 5

The Clintoonites have got to point their fingers of aspersions away from their 'saviors' short comings, or the Clintoons would be rejected, by the electorate, by the largest defeating margin in U.S. History. (GOD, Please Let It Be So!)
The Clintoon supporters refuse to accept that their savior, is not akin to the GOD above, but is much closer aligned to 'Lucifer', the master of deceit !!!
The Clintoons have made several millions of dollars (& there is NO crime in making a lot of money, only the MEANS AND METHODS used to amass their fortune), but they will not tolerate such information to become common knowledge.
I do not endorse John Edwards, but he does have the 1. integrity to admit he is wealthy, 2. does not evade the subject that he has done some acts, as a lawyer, that can be viewed as questionable, 3. his supporters do not work overtime to hide his past, 4. AS FAR AS I HAVE FOUND OUT, HE HAS NOT HAD HIS CRIMINAL RECORD "SEALED BY A COURT", THEREBY PREVENTING THOSE RECORDS FROM DEVULGING SOME ACTUAL CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.

Answer 6

The lack of depth and breadth of relationship has little comparability, Bush 1 was a proxy for house of Saudi and his son is no less beholden, a few measly millions for a library is small change they toss to a pet monkey.
Carlyle group, makes them business partners, as well as other more nefarious dealings look into the OPEC deal of the late 70's early 80's and you will see Bush 1 as guarantor of Saudi royal; family fortunes. this relationship has infused itself in many negative ways in our system for 35 years.

Answer 7

Because the Left Wing Liberal Socialist Bias` Media is covering the Clinton`s like a cat covers his crap in the litter box !!

Answer 8

Oh god, more Clinton bashing nonsense. How can you ever equate a donation to a library with the Bush families decades of collusion with the Saudis and their dirty hands in the oil business?

So if some Chinese sends me $100 on eBay, I'm a collaborator in the conspiracy to dominate Asia?

You make no sense in your argument. You are bending it so far to support your already reached conclusions that it is creaking in protest. You even threw in Puerto Ricans to richen your very thin stew I see.

You forgot Monica and Hillary ordering the murder of Vince Foster and Ted Kennedy's auto accident.

Answer 9

The reality is that all presidents in the last two centuries have had fairly close ties to Saudi oil barons. Pretty much necessary to the welfare of our country.

Answer 10

Theirs some one on here that forgot(Either to young or just ignorant!),about Kosovo,and Somalia.Oh also what about giving missile secrets to the Chinese,then giving North Korea a nuclear power plant.
Must of slipped his/hers mind.
Oh yeah who was Impeached.