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 Bill Clinton Warns on Disaster PreparednessPosted on May 5, 2007
Hillary Clinton and other presidential candidates might do well to heed the cautionary advice of former President Bill Clinton, who warned of coming disasters of both the man-made and natural varieties. He spoke during a conference Friday at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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By DennisD, May 6, 2007 at 9:14 pm #
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He must think that Hillarious really has a chance to be elected Queen. There’s no amount of disaster preparedness that’ll save us from that unfortunate occurrence.
Report thisBy Wobbly, May 6, 2007 at 4:03 pm #
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Too right, too late.
Maybe we should all vote for Hillary so twenty years from now we’ll have a sober mature ex-president to look up to.
Report thisBy Peter Rv, May 6, 2007 at 3:23 pm #
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Is this the same Clinton who bombed Yugoslavia to smitherns for three months and left depleted uranium dust and cluster bombs all over the country, who is now teaching us prudence and morality?
Report thisBy Hammo, May 6, 2007 at 12:12 pm #
The apparent incompetence in ways the Bush-Cheney administration handled Hurricane Katrina is a discouraging lesson.
Comparing and contrasting their activities in both Katrina and the invasion and occupation of Iraq is also interesting. Take a look at:
“Iraq invasion and occupation, Gulf Coast hurricane disaster have links” (American Chronicle)
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3421
Report thisBy vet240, May 6, 2007 at 1:17 am #
When is Bill Or Al Or somebody going to start warning us about the world population?
Report thisBy Hammo, May 5, 2007 at 11:36 pm #
Clinton has a point that serious disasters could cause grave problems, including the declaration of martial law or other results.
One example: A bird flu pandemic. Take a look at:
“Avian flu outbreak in U.S. could lead to quarantines; Bush advocates use of military” (American Chronicle)
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=11919
Report thisBy SouthernYankee, May 5, 2007 at 11:31 pm #
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Thanks for the warning but as usual this adminstration will blame the clinton adminstration for all that happens. Hopefully someone will care for the people in the country. It makes me sick to see what happened in NO with Katrina. I worry about the people who don’t have money to buy the extra food, water and transportation to get out of the way of danger.
Report thisBy THOMAS BILLIS, May 5, 2007 at 10:21 pm #
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You can love him or hate him but his time in office was the good old days.Imagine a President who speaks english.Imagine a President who reads books.Was he perfect?No.Let me ask the question this way if you could switch Presidents today would you?To those who would not I hope that they up your medication you are still not thinking clearly.
Report thisBy vet240, May 5, 2007 at 8:12 pm #
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A lot of talk about green house gases and global warming with some half-hearted mis-guided moves toward bio-fuels which will completely disrupt the food supplies due to farmers changing to tax subsidized fuel grains.
What about the real issue that must be solved globally in the next 20 years or less?
Why isn’t anyone talking about enforced birth control? It is projected that the planet will be home (more like a hell) to 9 Billion humans by the year 2100. When that occurs the population will really explode.
How can we control global warming without controlling the population growth?
It’s a conundrum. How do we not only slow down human growth but reverse it without disrupting econonies to the point of total failure?
I’m talking about world-wide laws that require enforced sterilization of large portions of the world population. This would be based on random selection (pre-birth) much like the Draft lottery of America in WWII.
I know this is shocking but without a reduction in the world population to around 3 Billion persons we will not be able to sustain humans on the planet for any length of time.
I ask you to think about this issue and contact your friends and political leaders to get this started now.
Are we going to simply use up the world thus insuring a huge catastrophic reduction caused by famine, disease or wars over water and arrable land?
Report thisBy Outraged, May 5, 2007 at 7:22 pm #
Where was ex-President Clinton when we needed him? When he could have done some good, he WAS the President after all. I don’t recall him addressing these issues then. Either way, we all know these things, and have known them for quite a long time. I’d love to hear him enlighten us and tell us who we really need to watch out for since he MAY know. Not the ones we already know about, but what or who it is that we don’t know about.
Mr Clinton:
Report thisStand up and say what you know about what we don’t already know. Otherwise, please, don’t waste everyone’s time.
By Leefeller, May 5, 2007 at 5:24 pm #
Bill Clinton, are you predicting the hurricane Ktrinia after the fact? Or is the to tell us that we should only expect more of the same when Hillery becomes president? Bush has not kept any of his campaign promises, are you making excuses for the Commander Guy?
Report thisHope you did not get paid for these innovative comments.