Bob Schieffer(CBS): "I have always wondered: Do you think that had it not been for Monica Lewinsky and the scandal that was swirling around Bill Clinton, that we as Americans would have recognized earlier what a threat that Osama bin Laden posed? Because every time that Clinton would take action, when he'd fire the missiles at what was supposed to be the terror training camp, people asked, 'Is this wagging the dog? Is this something to divert us from talking about Monica Lewinsky?'"
Washington Post reporter John Harris: "I think that's the great tragedy of Bill Clinton's record on terrorism, that he understood the threat of Islamic terrorism generally, Osama bin Laden specifically, and yet he was not able to infuse his own government or the country at large with that sense of urgency."
-- Exchange on CBS's Face the Nation June 12, where Harris was promoting his new biography of Bill Clinton.
Bob Schieffer's logic doesn't fly.
Bin Laden declared war on America wa-a-ay before Monica. The lovely couple didn't want to go after bin Laden because doing so would disturb the arab sensibilities and thereby interfere with the clinton scheme to snare a Nobel for a (fraudulent) Mideast rapprochement.
(This is not to say that an analysis of the dates of the bombings wouldn't reveal a positive and perfect correlation with some damaging clinton scandal event or other.)
The clintons are dangerously self-serving. No one should want them back in power. Ever.