Nora Ephron, a Hollywood director and bestselling author, wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times in which she blamed Bill and Monica for the Iraq War. She was of the opinion that if not for Bill's tryst Al Gore would have been elected and would not have done Iraq. This criticism raises much larger questions than just who is to blame for the Iraq War. If you are going to blame Bill and Monica then you must also blame Hillary, Bill Daley (one of Gore's campaign managers), Richard J. Daley, Joseph Kennedy, JFK, Jackie Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, the Vatican, and the entire American electorate from 1916-1960.

There is no Bill Clinton if there is no JFK presidency. Clinton idolized JFK. There is no JFK is there is no Joe Kennedy. Joe made Jack. There is no JFK presidency if there is no Richard J. Daley. Daley fixed the election in Cook County for Joe, a fellow Irishman. You could speculate that there is no Hillary Clinton if there is no Jackie Kennedy. Bill met Hillary while pursing his Ivy League education in JFK's footsteps. If Jackie knew of Jack's womanizing would she have married him? If the public knew of Ambassador Joseph Kennedy and Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy's womanizing would they have been elected? Bill Clinton's personality was shaped by protecting his mother from his alcoholic step-father. JFK's personality was shaped by an ultra-competitive, inside-trading, bootlegging, Nazi-sympathizing father.

If you look at the cult of personality surrounding JFK you cannot help but notice similarities between the Kennedys and Bushs and Daleys. All three families are defined by war, dirty Wall Street money, and racketeering. The Kennedys were out and out gangsters before and after their rise to power. Who did JFK appoint as the Attorney General, the top lawyer in the land, but his own brother Bobby. Never mind that Bobby had zero experience as a trial lawyer! Who did Bobby go after? Organized crime. If Americans only knew how dirty the Kennedys really were.

Richard J. Daley was a streetfighter like many of the Irish in Bridgeport (his Chicago neighborhood). He knew how to ensure that JFK would win Cook County. He had the muscle and the brains to pull it off. The whole world watched as his army of policemen cracked the skulls of hippies and war protestors in Lincoln Park in 1968.

Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's grandfather was a board member of Union Banking Corporation which had its assets seized by the Federal government

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