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I just did a rough count of the number of scandals that beset
the Clinton Administration during its time in office, and I came
up with nineteen. Most of these scandals never amounted to
terminal damage to the Clinton White House. As White House
sycophants pointed out time after time, “there is no evidence
of impropriety.” Not that evidence seemed to matter much to
Clinton supporters anyway, as the Lewinsky scandal
demonstrated, but the Clinton supporters were fulfilling their
role in the political system. Right or wrong, they believed it
was important to remain faithful to their political
allies.
But one scandal that should not be put to rest is the
allegations of Juanita Broaddrick, until Bill Clinton
acknowledges or denies the allegations one way or another.
Mrs. Broaddrick accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, when
he was the Attorney General of the state of Arkansas. I first
became aware of the charges in January 1999, during the Senate
trial of against Bill Clinton after his impeachment in the House
of Representatives. After researching the charges, I
realized that not only were the charges credible, but that Mrs.
Broaddrick possessed a dignified air and personal reputation
that would make her accusations difficult for White House
handlers to refute.
I was a columnist for the State Press at this time, (the daily
paper at Arizona State University, where I was a graduate
student) and submitted an article to the editorial staff. I
could tell they were not happy about publishing my piece, and
God knows what was said behind closed doors, but my article had
so many sources that there were no justified reasons not to
publish it. So the following article appeared on February 3,
1999.
http://www.statepress.com/spring99/sp990203/oped04.html
The article failed to note significant points. First, Mrs.
Broaddrick accused Bill Clinton of raping her twice at the time
of the incident. Second, when the Dateline interview finally
aired, they showed twenty minutes of that interview, when the
real interview was four hours long. Finally, Ms. Broaddrick also
asserted that Bill Clinton, when he was Governor of Arkansas,
had actually tried to apologize to Ms. Broaddrick at a
conference, which Ms. Broaddrick refused to accept, for obvious
reasons.
When the column was published, it was the first time that
many people had heard of these allegations, so I had no idea
what would follow. But to my surprise, the reaction was a
deafening silence, as nobody came forth to address the issue one
way or the other. The reaction was not unlike the rest of the
country’s when confronted with the allegations: nobody could
prove it, almost nobody wanted to deal with its implications,
and almost everybody was sick of the impeachment issue and the
allegations against Clinton. So that was that.
I bring this issue up for two reasons. First, it will be
impossible to understand recent American history unless we keep
in mind that our last President may very well have been a
sociopath. Remember when Clinton ordered the bombings of Sudan
and Afghanistan when the Starr Report came out? There is now
ample evidence that demonstrates that the bombings were
unwarranted in every sense of the word, and occurred for no
other reason than Clinton wanted attention to be focused
elsewhere. Innocent people lost their lives, a
pharmaceutical plant vital to serving the needs of a developing
nation was destroyed, our investigation of the embassy bombings
in Tanzania and Kenya were undermined, the lives of Americans in
the area were put at significant risk, and our international
reputation was sullied, all because Clinton thought that these
matters were not as important as he was. This is chilling stuff. For a detailed examination of those
bombings, read No One Left to Lie To by Christopher Hitchens.
(For an even more bracing account of the Clintons, which I have
not been able to come to terms with yet because of the enormity
of the charges, read The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: the
Unreported Stories by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.)
The second reason for bringing up the Broaddrick allegations is
that Bill Clinton has yet to answer the following question: did
you rape Juanita Broaddrick? When he was asked as
President, he replied that he had to tend to “the business of
the American people.” Well, he is no longer President,
and he cannot hide behind his position any longer. People should
continue to ask that question until he categorically denies the
charges.
The statute of limitations for rape in Arkansas have expired,
but Ms. Broaddrick could always take Bill Clinton to civil court
once he denies the allegations, if she should decide to do so.
That is her right in this country.
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