European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June stars and stripes Page 17 opinion Hillary Iraq problem is of her own making he Effington that Little game of political Chicken that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton played during the Senate vote on the Iraq spending Bill last month would not have surprised you if you had read her the new Book by new York times investigative reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta that Ive just neither Clinton nor Obama was on the sen ate floor when the Vot ing Tell me that Obama was holding off to see if Hill Ary would go when it was Clear she and time was running out on the he headed into the chamber and voted less than a minute Clinton bar Reed in and did the it was yet another example of her instinct for anyone willing to bet that if Obama had voted Hillary would still have voted no the idea that Clinton is All tactics and calculation and would rather stick her Finger in the air to see which Way the political wind is blowing than actually take the Lead on something is painstakingly documented in her forget the stuff about Monica Jennifer Vince Hillary record As a lawyer or the Clinton 20year plan for both of them to become the Money chapters Are the ones on when it comes to Hillary shape shifting explanations and votes on the Gerth and Van Natta offer a definitive and chilling portrait of a Politi Cian solely driven by political expedience even when it comes to life Eddeath mat ters such As its a portrait that Likely will prove to be an Anvil around her neck throughout the 2008 unless she can somehow transform herself from political weather vane to political Reading her Way Doest leave one optimistic that this will happen anytime Clinton serial Prev Arica rationalizations and calculations on the War Are Laid out chapter and liter starting with her vote authorizing presi Dent Bush to use military Force against on the Campaign Clinton has said again and again that she cast her vote based on the Best available but Gerth and Van Natta show according to All Evi Hillary did not actually read the Best available intelligence on the War be fore the invasion the 90page Classi fied version of the National intelligence Esti mate even though Bob then chairman of the intelligence according to the implored his col leagues to do so before casting such a Monu mental after Reading the full Graham voted against the perhaps if she had read the Nie she might not have been so fast to buy in to the bus Cheney talking Point inking Saddam Hussein and but buy in to it she taking to the Senate floor before the War authorization vote to accuse Saddam of giving Comfort and Sanctuary to including Al Aida Gerth and Van Natta note that when it came to making the Hillary even out hawked who tempered his words on the Senate floor about the connection by noting that the relationship be tween Al Aida and Saddam regime is a subject of intense debate within the Intelli gence in an Effort to justify her initial support of the Hillary has repeatedly insisted that her vote to authorize Bush to use Force was actually a vote for that she didst really believe we would go to and that the president misused that authority by giving Short shrift to additional diplomatic the authors turn a fan on this smoke screen and show that this claim is contradicted by Hillary own voting pointing out that right before she cast her yes vote on the use of she voted against an amendment put Forth by Carl Levin that would have required the presi Dent to actively pursue diplomacy before going to according to her if Hil Lary had voted yes on Levins she subsequently could have far More easily argued that she had worked toward a multilateral diplomatic instead of Vot ing for Bush to pursue More she voted to give Bush the authority to invade whats your spin on that Howard Wolfson her Way documents that the triangulation and shift Ness Only increased once Hill Ary saw that the Public tide was turning against the the Book reveals in june haying just been booed at the take Back America conference for de Claring that she didst think it was a smart strategy to set a Date certain for withdrawal from Strong armed Harry Reid into let Ting her become a Las minute cosponsor of a democratic plan for phased even though Reid had said he want going to politicize the legislation by allowing presidential hopefuls to join As and the Book details How Hillary again tried to have it both ways in january 2007 by introducing legislation to Cap existing troop which also contained giant loopholes that would allow the president to continue the War at whatever troop Levels he these Poison Pill qualifiers seriously under Cut the Antiwar message she was now try ing to put Forth which is no doubt Why they were not mentioned in the press re lease she issued about the Bill or in her the authors also show How Hillary inflated her newly Antiwar stance last when she announced her intention to file legislation to reauthorize the she claimed that those doubting her Antiwar Bona fides should look Back to the fact in the Day before she voted for the War she had voted for an Amend ment that would have limited the War to one but she once again conveniently left out a crucial fact the amendment contained a loophole that allowed the president to continue the War for anyone who has not Given up on her Way shows unequivocally that from her journey As one of 77 senators to vote for the War to one of 14 to vote against the latest round of War Hillary Clinton has taken just about every position on Iraq Possi save one out in culture is so Why let it be devalued Ann Coulter americans at least really stupid americans like George Bush believe the natural state of the world is to have individual self de human the Rule of Law and a robust democratic on this most of the exist ing world and almost All of world history is a freakish in the natural state of the world is the freakish aberration is America and the rest of the Anglo Saxon the British Empire once spread the Cul Ture of Prosperity around the Globe Jude Christian private property and the Rule of All recipients of the empires Lar Gesse but the empires most successful Colony was the United at the precise moment in history when the has abandoned any attempt to transmit Anglo Saxon Virtues to its own much less to Bush wants to Grant citizenship to hordes of immigrants who Are Here precisely because they Are flee ing cultures that Are utterly dysfunctional and ruinous for those who live in this country has absorbed huge migrations of illiterate peasants in the past notably italian immigrants at the turn of the last but also half of them went we got the Good America was not yet a welfare state guaranteeing room and Board to the the Lazy and the incompetent from Cradle to supreme court Justice Louis immigrant and first jewish member of the supreme said that americanization required that the immigrant adopt the the manners and the customs Gener ally prevailing Here and that he adopt the English language As the common medium of Brandeis this is Only part of properly demand of the immigrant even More than this he must be brought into Complete Harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their at Only when this has been done will he possess the National consciousness of an or As Bush would Call empty and As Linda Chavez would Call i wish our new immigrants had come to America Back when the foundations of civic society and patriotism were still inculcated in All immigrants and when half of them went but traitors who Are Citi Zens have destroyed All occult rating inst traitors who Are citizens have also destroyed All incentive for the poor to work or even keep their Knees together before until the recipient culture is capable of doing an effective Job of american zing in its preposterous to talk about a massive influx of hispanic immigrants accomplishing anything other than turning America into yet another latin Ameri can style banana and it is simply a fact that no one is trying to turn immigrants into to the democrats Are trying to turn new immigrants into wards of the state and with some Success so they will be permanent democratic Rich republicans and their handmaidens in Washington Are trying to turn immigrants into a Perma nent servant in an astonishing recent Exchange on Fox Dan Henninger of the Wall Street journal responded to Heather Macdonald Point that hispanics in this country have a 50 percent illegitimacy the highest teen pregnancy rate of any group and the highest High school dropout rate of any by ask ing Why dont we feel we Are under cultural assault in new York City you have no sense of this at All americans display no evident desire to de fend their much less transmit and immigrants show no evident desire to adopt to the immigrants Are replacing american culture with latin american Cul their apparent constant need to Demon Strate is just one As Mac Johnson wrote in human events last these immigrant protests represent the colonization of America by the latin style of he listed just some of the demonstrations drawing thousands sometimes hundreds of thousands of pro testers Over the last few years in Mexico among the targets of the protests were a new regional Trade plans to allow private investment in the stat owned electricity Energy and tax and support for the mayor of Mexico in 1993 Long before before the uss Cole before the bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania the eminent Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington predicted that the greatest threat to Western civilization would come from a clash of noting with particular concern the bloody Borders of the Muslim so it ought to be of some interest that Huntington is now in his Book who Are we the challenges to americas National that America cannot survive the cultural onslaught from latin american hispanics responded to Huntington Book with a flurry of scholarly papers and academic debates to counter his thesis that mexicans were not just kidding they called for National pro tests against his publisher and Harvard prickly City by Scott Stantis