"Citizen of the world" Clinton. (The Last Word).

For close to an hour on October 3rd, private citizen Bill Clinton addressed the British Labor Party's annual conference in Blackpool, England. Invited by Prime Minister Tony Blair, his devoted friend and ideological soul mate, the former president acknowledged the "warm applause" he received while recalling having spent two of "the best years of my life" in England. Courtesy of the Rhodes Scholar program, those were the years he campaigned against the U.S. military action he avoided by dishonorably dodging the draft. He did not mention that of course. Nor did he mention his trip behind the Iron Curtain to link up with Communist anti-Vietnam War protesters while fellow Americans were dying in Southeast Asia.

However, what Bill Clinton did say earns him the distinctive label of anti-American. Identifying himself as a "citizen of the world," he repeatedly called for an "integrated global community," which would result if all join together "to make the United Nations a more meaningful, more powerful, more effective institution." He even chided his own country because the U.S. does not "contribute in my view as much as we should to international institutions."

Along with the sovereignty-destroying European Union that he admires, Mr. Clinton hopes to see an improved UN "in five, 10 or 20 years." Should nations defend their own interests? Not so, said Clinton: "There are still people who vote in the United Nations based on the old-fashioned national interest views they held in the Cold War or even long before, so that not every vote reflects the clear and present interests of the world...."

He patted himself on the back for "bringing China into the World Trade Organization and the community of nations." That these moves were, in part, payoffs for huge illegal campaign contributions from China via Johnny Chung, Charlie Trie, and John Huang earned no mention. And he also ignored KGB-veteran Vladimir Putin's current trade overtures to Iraq while congratulating himself for "trying to build alliances with Russia."

He derided the Supreme Court's decision ending the 2000 presidential election and then heaped scorn on Republicans. Their opposition to "the Kyoto Protocol, the comprehensive test ban treaty, [and] the international criminal court" stands in the way, said Bill Clinton, "of our larger obligation to create an integrated world." Not content with bashing Republicans, he took aim at "conservatives" both in the U.S. and England. "Their politics is based on ideology and power, and they don't like evidence and argument very much," he ...