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Clinton comrades try to aid pipeline friends (Iraqi involvement in WTC and Oklahoma City?)
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Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Published: 11/04/01 Author: Dateline D.C.
Posted on 11/4/01 5:09 AM Pacific by vrwc54
WASHINGTON - Last week, we elaborated on some of Bill Clinton's frustrations. Poor Bubba is more than a little petulant because, as he has admitted with that bottom lip trembling a little, nobody listens to him.
For once, our former president spoke truthfully. Of course, that was last week; now he's had an audience - at least according to Italian television and newspapers.
On his way to the Spanish capital of Madrid for a session with other world has-beens, such as Mikhail Gorbachev whose foundation organized the event, Bill Clinton visited Rome. With him were his daughter and a detail of some 30 security guards. Bill's purpose in stopping over in Rome, according to the Italians, was to hold meetings with Fausto Bertinotti, leader of Italy's hardline Refounded Communist Party.
This should be neither shocking nor surprising because Bill Clinton has known the Italian communists for decades - in fact, from as long ago as the days when he was running the ``peace at any price before my draft call'' at Oxford University in England. Then Bill, and later with Hillary, heard from friends in America's Students for a Democratic Society about a clever new hero, the communist strategist, Antonio Gramsci.
Years later, when Bill had the Arkansas budget to use, he visited Milan and met a number of Italian communists who believed in Gramsci's strategies on changing countries into communist regimes. First, you have a communist city council, then a communist county administration and gradually, you have the Marxists, using new names, like "reformed" or "refounded" moving into the country's Cabinet. Old Antonio was novel in his thinking. He thought it crude and unnecessary to seize power using the barrel of a gun when communists could gain power by deception instead.
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Looking back, we can see that Bill was impressed and learned his lessons well. In fact, he brought some of Gramsci's social theories back to Arkansas - where they failed. However, in his personal life, the Gramsci plan was magic. In fact, for Bill and Hillary, or even the AFL-CIO's John Sweeney, and their buddies Tony Blair, Britain's No. 1 Leftie, and Gerhard Schroeder, the Marxist-on-the-Rhine, every politician must play by Gramsci's rules