LOL, wasn't it amazing how their makeup so closely resembled Al's debate face? Uday and Qusay had a little less blush, though.
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton has challenged her husband's confession that he turned down an offer from Sudan to extradite Osama bin Laden to the U.S., a decision that some say ranks as the worst foreign policy blunder in U.S. history.
"That's not my understanding of the facts," Sen. Clinton told NewsMax.com's Carl Limbacher, who confronted Hillary with her husband's remarks on "The Mike Siegel Show." Sen. Clinton's comments are published for the first time in the new book "Hillary's Scheme."
"As I understand the facts," a defensive sounding Hillary continued, "there was never a full and thorough offer."
Sen. Clinton's backpedaling on her husband's stunning bin Laden admission comes as she continues to try to burnish her national security credentials in preparation for a presidential run.
But the ex-president's bin Laden blunder could prove to be a major obstacle, especially since Sen. Clinton's own remarks indicate she was in the loop on the disastrous decision to pass up the 9/11 terror mastermind.
In an apparent reference to her own involvement in the decision-making process, Hillary told Limbacher, "Remember, when we were looking to try to deal with bin Laden, there wasn't any, at that point, any absolute linkage, as there later became, with both the bombings in Africa and the U.S.S. Cole."
According to Sen. Clinton's husband, however, at the time he turned down Sudan's offer, the White House was not only aware that bin Laden posed a growing threat, administration officials were even predicting that the 9/11 mastermind would attack the U.S. directly. In Mr. Clinton's own words, as early as 1996, "we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America."
Sen. Clinton has never before been asked about her husband's troubling revelation. And the only other time she's been asked about the Sudanese offer, she dodged the question. NewsMax