Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton is the former president of the United States.

Before coming to the office of POTUS (President of the United States), Clinton served as governor of Arkansas. Clinton is most notable for moving his party to the right - encouraging Democrats to cut welfare spending, balance the federal budget, and embrace the North American Free Trade Agreement.

His presidency was marred by numerous scandals, many of which were contrived by the conservative movement, such as "Travelgate," "Whitewatergate," and unfounded allegations of foul play in connection with the death of Vincent Foster. He became the second president to be impeached, after a lengthy and highly publicized investigation of his sexual affair with White House aide Monica Lewinsky.

Over $52 million had been spent by Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr investigating the Clinton scandals, more than the Bush administration spent on investigating the attacks upon the World Trade Center in September 2001.

Notably absent from the "outrage" directed at Clinton was any mention of the atrocities committed by his administration. On Clinton's watch, the following things happened:

• The destruction of the al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan on August 20, 1998. It was destroyed by cruise missiles in retaliation to the August 7, 1998 embassy bombings attributed to Osama Bin Laden. The destruction of the plant led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people who could not get the medicine they needed. The plant had no ties to Bin Laden and was not creating weapons of any kind.

• Murderous sanctions against Iraq which killed hundreds of thousands of people, including many children.

• The serious NATO bombings in Kosovo which increased the death toll of the conflict dramatically as expected.

• Massive U.S. arms support for genocide in southeastern Turkey carried out against the Kurds throughout the 1990s. Tens of thousands were killed, several million refugees fled.

Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.

He published his biography in 2004. It was titled, My Life.

Other Related SourceWatch Resources

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• Clinton administration
• Reagan administration

External Links

• Yahoo! Directory of Links on the Clinton Administration and Biographical Information on Bill Clinton.
• M. Asif, Ismail, The Clinton Top 100: Where Are They Now?, Center for Public Integrity, April 2, 2003.
• Biography of Bill Clinton

Headlines

• 16 June 2003: "Hagen wants Clinton to head NATO. One of Norway's most highly profiled and right-wing politicians, Carl I. Hagen, is urging the nomination of former US President Bill Clinton as new NATO boss. Norwegian officials have given up hopes that their own defense minister, Kristin Krohn Devold, will get the job."