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Posted on 10/03/2001 7:30:39 PM PDT by Beep

Hillary Compares Her Critics to Osama bin Laden

Former first lady, now New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton says she knows what it's like to be the victim of the kind of maniacal hatred that cost up to 7,000 of her constituents their lives in the Sept. 11 attacks on Manhattan's Twin Towers.

"Oh, I am well aware that it is out there," Mrs. Clinton said, of the "murderous anger" that drove Osama bin Laden to conspire to turn two commercial jetliners into kamikaze dive-bombers and plow them into the World Trade Center.

In an outrageously bizarre attempt to coopt the Twin Tower tragedy for her own political ends, Mrs. Clinton explained to the New Yorker magazine:

"One of the most difficult experiences that I personally had in the White House was during the health-care debate, being the object of extraordinary rage.

"I remember being in Seattle. I was there to make a speech about health care. This was probably August of '94. Radio talk-show hosts had urged their listeners to come out and yell and scream and carry on and prevent people from hearing me speak."

Sen. Clinton told the New Yorker the experience gave her a "firsthand look" at what it's like to confront terrorism head-on.

"There were threats that were coming in, and certain people didn't want me to speak, and they started taking weapons off people, and arresting people. I've had firsthand looks at this unreasoning anger and hatred that is focused on an individual you don't know, a cause that you despise — whatever motivates people."

Coming next from Sen. Clinton: How Osama bin Laden modeled his al Qaeda terrorist network after the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

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