According to Osama Bin Laden, there were two reasons he attacked the U.S. on 9/11: our support for Israel, and our lack of action on climate change. (Google it.)
What does this have to do with HRC? During the Clinton administration, when Bin Laden was planning these attacks, Hillary was in charge of all health reform efforts in the U.S. And climate change isn't just any health issue, it's the biggest one we face today.
Some current health consequences of climate change, which will only get worse in the future:
- Global water shortages
- Loss of usable land for growing crops
- Spread of tropical diseases
- Increasingly destructive and unpredictable weather events
Hilary's signature achievement during the Clinton administration was creating the Health Security Act.
How much of the Health Security Act was devoted to climate change, by far and away the biggest health security issue the world faces? Zero. Not a single word.
After the defeat of the HSA, what other health-related policies did she support? In December 1999, just months before 9/11, Hillary's big health plan was to end school shootings by banning virtually all violent video games, including classics like Super Mario and PAC-MAN. To quote her at the time:
"What kind of values are we promoting," chimed in Hillary Clinton, "when a child can walk into a store and find video games where you win based on how many people you can kill or how many places you can blow up?"
Sorry Hillary, Bin Laden didn't attack America because he was playing Grand Theft Auto. It was because not only did you fail to take meaningful action against climate change, but because you didn't even articulate it as a priority. Including, but not limited to, in a bill you wrote that was literally called the Health Security Act.