CLINTON'S RED LEGACY: Bill Clinton never met a communist he didn't like. Dodging the draft, a young Clinton declared that he loathed the American military and opposed the war to halt communist aggression in Vietnam. Proving he was more red than yellow, Clinton visited that hot tourist spot of yesteryear, the Soviet Union, where he protested against the Vietnam war in an KGB-organized anti-U.S. rally.
As president, Clinton continued schmoozing the dwindling membership of the Comintern. He extended diplomatic recognition to Vietnam; he accepted laundered commie campaign contributions from China's regime; he looked the other way while Chinese agents absconded with our country's most closely-guarded nuclear secrets; and he decided that Darth Castro would make a fine foster father for Elian Gonzalez, allowing INS stormtroppers to kidnap the little boy at gunpoint and send him back to Castro's island concentration camp.
And Clinton left little doubt which end of the political spectrum he prefers when, in what ranks as one of the strangest moments in presidential history, he publicly offered condolences for the 1994 death of North Korea's monstrously brutal Stalinist dictator, Kim Il-Sung. Clinton punctuated his condolences in a dangerous fashion: he moved to implement a mindnumbingly bad agreement negotiated in 1994 by That Simpleton Jimmy Carter several weeks before Kim arrived at the gates of Hell. As this
New York Post editorial explains, the agreement provided that the U.S., South Korea and Japan "would build North Korea two modern 'light water' nuclear reactors" in exchange for Pyongyang halting its nuclear weapons program -- the idea being that a light water reactor would not yield weapons-grade plutonium.
Of course, North Korea agreed to the deal. And, of course, North Korea didn't abide by the deal. "It was a bad deal then and it's a worse deal now," the Post writes. "North Korea has not frozen its weapons programs. And it turns out that the modern reactors -- whose construction is due to start this week -- will produce weapons-grade plutonium anyway."
And here's the kicker: the United States continues to honor its side of the Carter-Kim agreement and is assisting North Korea, a charter member of the Axis of Evil, with the reactor construction! As the New York Post insists, President Bush should cancel this remnant of Bill Clinton's fetish for communists, and move to replace North Korea's deadly regime.
