Undercutting U.S. Policy, Bill Clinton Praised Foreign Autocrat

New York Times:

Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.

Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[Macready]

08:44 AM on 02/01/2008

bill is getting more like the chimp every day in supporting autocrats . . . I do wish the clinton supporters would really look at hillary's voting record and what bill has done since he has left office . . . they are DLC neo-cons masquerading as Democrats

[dr4Will]

08:04 PM on 01/31/2008

get a life you stupid,sneaky Clinton haters--get your kicks kissing Bush's butt--bottom feeders---go write for AARP,thats your leel!

[research]

03:37 PM on 01/31/2008

The war mongering corporate profiteers win again!

[KevinMicheal]

02:48 PM on 01/31/2008

HERE WE GO AGAIN! Clinton hasn't even won the election, and the drama has already started. If the NY Times has this information, what else about the Clinton's dealings don't we know about. The Democrats are setting themselves up for failure if Clinton gets the nomination, because the media is going to start pulling up all kind of crap about the Clintons.

[vegasobserver]

02:25 PM on 01/31/2008

HILLARY CLINTON IS *NOT* A TRUE DEMOCRAT!!!

WATCH THIS ABC NEWS VIDEO (BELOW)...

What Hillary did at WalMart was disgraceful. She used her Board membership with WalMart to advance Bill's and her own political careers, as "reliable" corporate Democrats, so they could rake in contributions not just from WalMart, but from all kinds of union-busting corporations all throughout the US.

Hillary used her WalMart Board of Directors membership to firmly ensconce herself as a corporate "insider", so corporations would trust Bill and trust her, and give them lots of contributions, to advance their careers. Hillary used the "women" issue as a token "chip" to make herself look progressive, "for the record", while totally ignoring WalMart's evil union-busting tactics which are diametrically opposed to the Democratic Party's ideals.

While Hillary was a WalMart Board member, and attending their meetings and privy to all the books, financial records, and corporate reports of WalMart, the company was exploiting 11 and 12 year old girls in sweat-shop factories in Bangladesh, all the while they were running a deceptive "Buy American" campaign in their stores, where they sold foreign-made products under signs saying "Made In America".

Anyone who is unfamiliar with this ABC NEWS report, especially if you live in one of the Super Tuesday primary states, should read this report and watch this video NOW, if you want to know the true Hillary Clinton. If there is one thing you can do to further the truth during this critical primary season, watch this video and then send it to 5-10 of your friends who are Democratic voters in the Super Tuesday Primary States...

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4218509&page=1

[Give Peace A Chance]

02:24 PM on 01/31/2008

Wow, talk about rolling the dice.

So we have troops dying in a fiasco, started on fears of yellow cake and an unfriendly dictator. While Bill is making $ 131 million in a new deal with an unfriendly dictator who violates human rights.

Doing the same thing over, and expecting a different result?

[crxxe]

02:07 PM on 01/31/2008

Undercutting U.S. Policy, Bill Clinton Praised Foreign Autocrat

I swear to god I thought I was at FOX news when I saw that. When did Huff Post get taken over?

[Mike169]

01:24 PM on 01/31/2008

Praised a foreign autocrat as opposed to our domestiv autocrat?

[sammy333]

01:16 PM on 01/31/2008

Uranium mining in Kazakhstan? Not bad .. definitely much better than feeding the war industry and the likudists with a trillion dollars of the US taxpayer money and human blood. Well, we will have Mr McCain to continue the latter.

[phroso]

12:29 PM on 01/31/2008

Do any of the Obamababies actually have the reading comprehension span to get through a 4-page article and evaluate it? Read it and try to find one concrete thing in the entire article that the Times has on Bill. It's all gossip and fluff. Like the helium-filled Mr. O.

[Svenson]

12:17 PM on 01/31/2008

This story is copied and changed from an earlier story in Esquire magazine in December, 2005.

How the two stories can be so different puts into question the journalistic credibility of NYT and Job Becker.

[sarnold49]

11:57 AM on 01/31/2008

The democrats don't need the GOP to swiftboat them! Hell they will rabidly eat their own while screaming "hope", "change", "inspiring" & "uniter" with their mouths full!

[Independent voter]

11:43 AM on 01/31/2008

Wow - bill clinton used to be for sale for as little as one million. Now he's getting $131 million from the Soviet uranium mining guy.

[ayc]

11:28 AM on 01/31/2008

Is this just the beginning of more 'vetting' to be done for the Clintons?

[anghiari]

11:22 AM on 01/31/2008

I have got to believe that these idiots on line making excuses for Slick Willie are Hillary's paid staffers...otherwise...it is even more clear how much we need Obama. If people because of partisanship will overlook what Bill Clinton has just done, then we really need to revisit the values these people have in place in their lives. This man for all intents and purposes is a hound dog of the grand kind when it comes to women...and your daughters are clearly at risk...he lied under oath and had his law license suspended for five years. And you guys are making excuses for this liar...amazing