"Al qaeda grew while Monica blew"
Posted on 09/26/2006 10:20:40 AM PDT by standingfirm
From behind the benign façade and the tranquilizing smile, the real Bill Clinton emerged Sunday during Chris Wallace’s interview on Fox News Channel. There he was on live television, the man those who have worked for him have come to know – the angry, sarcastic, snarling, self-righteous, bombastic bully, roused to a fever pitch. The truer the accusation, the greater the feigned indignation. Clinton jabbed his finger in Wallace’s face, poking his knee, and invading the commentator’s space.
But beyond noting the ex-president’s non-presidential style, it is important to answer his distortions and misrepresentations. His self-justifications constitute a mangling of the truth which only someone who once quibbled about what the “definition of ‘is’ is” could perform.
Clinton told Wallace, “There is not a living soul in the world who thought that Osama bin Laden had anything to do with Black Hawk Down.” Nobody said there was. The point of citing Somalia in the run up to 9-11 is that bin Laden told Fortune Magazine in a 1999 interview that the precipitous American pullout after Black Hawk Down convinced him that Americans would not stand up to armed resistance.
Clinton said conservatives “were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day” after the attack which killed American soldiers. But the real question was whether Clinton would honor the military’s request to be allowed to stay and avenge the attack, a request he denied. The debate was not between immediate withdrawal and a six-month delay. (Then-first lady, now-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) favored the first option, by the way). The fight was
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Whoa! That's gonna leave a mark. LOL
The real Clinton emerges every time Bill steps up to a urinal...or an intern.
Morris has done a nice job laying it out here.
He's gonna do that to the wrong person someday. I'd pay to see it.
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My only regret with that interview is that Wallace didn`t have the guts to push it further. He should have called him a liar to his face, "Mr. President, you know that is not true"....something to that effect. Ann Coulter or even Bill O`Reilly probably would have done it, which is why the Clintons avoid them like the plague.
Like I've said, stress bring out the real person. We saw the real Clinton, not some calculating savvy politician trying to help his party.
Hey Dick, YOU helped keep this man in power. Thanks alot.
BOTTOM LINE:
Bush Administration had one chance in Tora Bora.... and the Clinton Administration had eight to ten chances that they refused to even try.
no, that would have backfired. Wallace behaved correctly, had he done what you suggest, the story would have been about Wallace - instead, its about Clinton's behavior.
there is no proof that OBL was even at Tora Bora at that time. there are alot of myths about Tora Bora - those vast cave complexes we all saw sketches of, didn't exist.
OBL had plenty of advance knowledge about 9-11, plenty of time to plan his escape and exit. He was long gone into Pakistan by that ime, is my guess.
Imagine Hillary reading him the riot act back at the house?! Now I'd pay to see that!! Anyone care to fill in the blanks on that one???
Don't even mention O'Reilly's name. I have seen him on three interviews, starting with Barbara Walters about this and O'Reilly said he thought Clinton was a good president...passing welfare reform, good economy, balanced budget on and on. It just so happens, Clinton did NONE of those things...the Republicans in the House put these things in which stimulated the economy. O'Reilly knows this. Sometime earlier Mr. O asked Dan Rather if he thought Clinton was an honest man, and Rather said he did! O'Reilly said he couldn't believe Rather's answer, so what has happened to O'Reilly and why has he caved?? Is that his idea of balance?? I think he is jealous that Wallace did such a good job and landed the interview of the decade!! I emailed O'Reilly yesterday and said so.
Tell me about it...The dude bashes the Clintons solely for revenge for being caught with that hooker and having his arse kicked out on the street. If he was never caught he`d be proclaiming today that Hellary is the greatest thing since sliced bread, telling everyone she would make a great President. On the other hand, you can look at his 180 degree turn around as atonement for his sins against humanity for helping the most corrupt politician of the modern era rise to the highest office in the land, something we are still paying for and probably will pay for years to come.
They haven't slept in the same house together since January 2001....
After we had attacked Afghanistan and they were getting creamed, Usama told the Pakistani warriors to go back, don't come.....Another tape inferred....spread out.
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