Hillary's Ratings Tell Her True Story; Kerry the Phony Peacenik

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Byline: INSIGHT

Can anyone care that Hillary Rodham Clinton was so traumatized by her father, a former Navy drill instructor, as a result of being made to find a toothpaste cap hidden in the snow to punish her for having left it off the tube that she now puts leftover olives back in the jar and saves the tiniest bits of cheese? Look, crazy is as crazy does.

* The Insight online poll (www.

insightmag.com) asking if Hillary told the truth in her book produced these results: No: 92 percent; Yes: 8 percent.

* Part of the purpose of Palestinian terrorism is to drive off tourists. Before the current terrorist jihad against Israel, tourism brought in $4 billion a year. Last year it was down to $1 billion. Israel is appealing to evangelical Christians with the marketing slogan: "Don't put your soul on hold."

* The new Dick Morris book, Off With Their Heads, is worth a look as the infamous Clintonista toesucker betrays those he thinks betrayed him - folks such as the New York Times editors who swapped favorable coverage for an exclusive interview with Clinton for which the Times interviewer supplied the questions in advance.

* The merciless wit of Washington Times Editor in Chief Wesley Pruden is justly famous, but last week Pruden outdid himself and quoted Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts demanding in 1997 that we go to war to get weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) out of Iraq immediately.

* After declaring that it "is not possible to overstate" the threat from Saddam's biological weapons, here is Kerry: "In my judgment, the Security Council should authorize a strong U.N. military response that will materially damage, if not totally destroy, as much as possible of the suspected infrastructure for developing and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, as well as key military command-and-control nodes. ... This should not be a strike consisting only of a handful of cruise missiles hitting isolated targets."

* That is the same John Kerry who has been blasting President Bush for taking out Saddam without proof that the Baghdad tyrant had WMDs of the kind he already had used on the Kurds.

* Pruden quotes Kerry as having urged we go it alone if necessary: "While we should always seek to take significant international actions on a multilateral rather than a unilateral basis whenever that is possible, in the final analysis ... we must have the courage to do what we believe is right and wise."

* It is hard to imagine a bigger phony, say insiders who know the junior senator from Massachusetts. Running unsuccessfully for a Democratic nomination for Congress in 1970, trying to get to the left of his then-opponent Robert Drinan, Kerry told the Harvard Crimson he wanted "U.S. troops disposed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations."

* But isn't Kerry a war hero who spent four months in Vietnam? You bet, and he returned to attack Americans fighting and dying there with the ugliest libel ever uttered against U.S. military personnel, declaring on Lenin's birthday, April 22, 1971, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that American troops "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."

* When asked to produce proof of any of this, Kerry cited a Detroit antiwar meeting, demurred, said the U.S. should pay war reparations to Hanoi and returned to celebrate Lenin's birthday with his Maoist and other friends in Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the hate-America group for which he had raised $60,000. The next day, Kerry says, he threw his ribbons and "someone else's medals" over the fence into a White House trash bin.

* Meanwhile, as if anyone cares, Toronto is buzzing with word that Bill Clinton currently is squiring Canadian auto-parts billionaire Belinda Stronach, now divorcing an Olympic speed skater. A spokesman for her company denies she is collecting trophy husbands and calls it a "business relationship."

* Poor Hillary, such competition. The Barbara Walters interview with Mrs. Clinton to hype her disappointing tell-all book drew about 35 million fewer viewers than Barbara's interview with Monica Lewinsky and finished third for the week.

* And, finally, when Bill Clinton and Rudy Giuliani were somehow persuaded to appear at the same charity event in New York, the New York Post's Andrea Peyser imagined this exchange. "Hey, Bill! How's the wife?" "Great, Rudy, how's the prostate?" Giuliani attended without charge to help the charity, Four Seasons of Hope. Clinton insisted on being paid plus ripping the charity off for $20,000 worth of electronics for his office.