New reports confirm that former President Bill Clinton coached
Dubai officials on how to deal with the port controversy weeks prior to the
initial political storm. Meanwhile, Senator Hillary Clinton opposes the port
deal, and has introduced legislation against it.
I am waiting for the Democratic and “progressive” voices,
who view the Clintons as deities, to explain this one away.
This is not simply Bush-Republican counter-sleaze, although
it will be used as such. The spin from the Clinton camp (“Bill and Hillary
collegially disagree on many issues, while working together for America,”
“foreign dignitaries routinely ask the former president for advice,” etc.) is
equally deceptive: the Clintons have always played the strategy of tension,
from opposing sides, like good covert operatives.
The story merely confirms how the American political elite
is one criminal aristocracy. The fact is, the deeply-connected Bush and Clinton
families have worked together for decades, and I am not referring to the former
presidents acting as tsunami relief shills.
The Iran-Contra drug trafficking operations of the 1980s and
1990s, and the history of Mena,
Arkansas, exhaustively documented in the late Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance,
Al Martin’s The Conspirators, John Cummings’ Compromised: Clinton,
Bush and the CIA, and Daniel Hopsicker’s Barry and the Boys (also
see the article here,
and a more recent look here) is but
one fine example of Bush-Clinton cooperation.
A pox on both houses of the Empire.
With
Bill Clinton helping Dubai navigate, and George W. Bush threatening to veto all
opposition, the port deal is clearly a geopolitical imperative
for the inner circle, with Peak Oil and the “war on terrorism” at stake.