Posted on 06/20/2004 3:10:15 AM PDT by Liz
Responding to criticism that he didn't do enough to combat terror during his presidency, Bill Clinton spends much of the second half of his book detailing his efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and other terrorists around the globe.
In the days after 9/11, Clinton was widely criticized for allowing al Qaeda to grow into a worldwide destructive force during his eight years in office — a claim the former commander in chief vehemently denies in "My Life."
"Since we had been going after his organization for several years, I had known for some time that he was a formidable adversary," Clinton writes after mentioning dual car bombings of the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 257 people.
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The Clinton Perpetual Exoneration Tour is a prime example of the "culture of victimization" these warped, mentally disturbed Clintonoids rely on for vindication.
"Morally neutral" individuals recognize no objective truth whatsoever and cannot bring themselves to "judge" anyone ---- much less the conniving Clintons. As an example of the utter futility of it all, these airheads defend scumbags like the traitorous Rosenbergs---the betrayers of the US. IMHO, the Clintons are in the same sub-class.
In their warped, disturbed minds, Clinton, like the Rosenbergs, is merely a "victim" who is being vilified by a judgmental VRWC.
Count me as one American who's sick and tired of deluded liberal do-gooders who skirt our rule of law in order to serve their own personal hang-ups.
The AP is running a story where Bubba said the first thing he told GW Bush back in 2000 was "Osama Bin Laden is the biggest threat to America!" but that GW Bush ignored him and "quickly changed the subject."
Clinton was offered three chances to take Osama Bin Laden into custody. For whatever reasons known only to him, he turned them all down.
I like the "Perpetual Exoneration Tour" title. Very good, and spot on.
At any rate, when asked about this charge yesterday, the answer was "The White House doesn't do book reviews."
Right. Must really tick you off because he wouldn't buy a cruise ticket.
That bastard.
The only people who will believe his B.S. have never read 957 pages in their life.
If you made that up, that is beautiful, and accurate, and funny as h*ll.
Congrats to whomever!
At exactly what point in time after he refused to accept bin Laden from Sudan did this earnest and vigorous effort by Clinton begin? I'm a little blurry on the time line Can somebody clear this up for me?
So bogus.....lowlife Clinton will say and/or do anything to save his **s.
I'd say it was his gross stupidity..........
Yeah, the whole story's a bit ambiguous.......LOL.
Who else? It's got my post name attached to it doesn't it?
Anyone remember the day after 911 Clinton getting interviewed on the street in Harlem, and these women came up to him and started to verbally attack him; "Why didn`t you do anything about terrorism? Why? why? why? We kept getting attacked for 8 years!!" and Bubba was stuttering.."uh we uh increased out budget to fight terror...uh". He knows he didn`t do anything, liberal NYC knows he didn`t, now he`s trying to BS the history books. The dude is a grifter with no shame. Just like all his mouthing off about how he was great for the economy. Anything to make more loot on those speaking tours. And they got the gall to criticize Bush on this 911 commission.
It's great, and I'm bowing down even as I type!!! :-)
How's about scumbag Michael (I Live to Eat) Moore making the hate-filled film about GWB.......completely omits Clinton's failures.
You may kiss my ring.....LOL.
From what I read in the excerpts of Steve Coll's book Ghost Wars, virtually every attempt to capture OBL was waylaid by the tortuous legal blockades erected by the Reno DoJ (including Gorelick).
For example, according to Coll, the CIA ground troops and its task force had OBL nailed several times, and in each instance the DoJ came back with some sort of twisted authorization that would basically leave individual CIA exployees to swing in the wind should anything go wrong. In each instance, the Adminstration would assume no responsibility whatsoever, and the "authorization" memos were written in that vein.
I found it perfectly logical that when Reno herself appeared before the 9/11 Commission, within 10 minutes she had declared that she couldn't recollect what was and was not classified, so for the remainder of her testimony they threw her nothing but softballs. Not once was the issue of these autorization memos discussed or questioned.
Does this book tell us who hired Craig Livingstone?
957 pages is a bigger roll of buttwipe than Charmins largest roll.
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