Klein: No 9-11 If Only Clinton "Had Been Free to Fire Freeh"? ("if I had known")

MRC ^ | Monday June 21, 2004 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

......."if I had known"

Quotes by William Jefferson Clinton:

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." - President Bill Clinton (February 4, 1998)

"If (Saddam) accepts (the UN Resolutions to disarm), force will not be necessary. If he refuses or continues to evade his obligations through more tactics of delay and deception, he and he alone will be to blame for the consequences." - President Bill Clinton (February 17, 1998)

"Well, he (Saddam) will conclude that the international community has lost its will (if they do not act). He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal." - President Bill Clinton (February 17, 1998)

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. We want to seriously reduce his capacity to threaten his neighbors." - President Bill Clinton (February 17, 1998)

[Paul Atreides]

Ah, the media's never-ending crusade to salvage Bubba's precious legacy.

[MamaLucci]

Time for Louis Freeh to write a tell-all book.

[JeeperFreeper]

Didn't the Klintoon's fire all the U.S. attorneys when he took office? So now he's saying he can't get Freeh to resign to "spend more time with his family"?

[Delphinium]

Time for Louis Freeh to write a tell-all book.

Thats the one I want to read.

[Starve The Beast]

If aliens landed in space ships tomorrow and showed us how to end world hunger, Clinton would make endless claims - against all available evidence - about how he was obsessed with contacting aliens during his presidency. And he would have succeeded, too, if it hadn't been for that mean ol' Kenneth Starr.

[gaspar]

Anything that Freeh might write would be better than that offered by Klein. Klein has done his best to prove the old argument that those who write historical novels are of common mind.

[TexasCajun]

But doesn't this really depend on what the definition of "IF" is?

[Sans-Culotte]

Even if Clinton's (and Klein's) assertions are true, it merely underscores why sexual shenanigans like those of B.J. Clinton can ultimately undermine national security. Defenders of the Toon ("he only lied about sex") used to snicker when conservatives would suggest scenarios whereby a Prez in a compromising position could do this. Well, apparently, the Lewinsky thing accomplished exactly that (at least according to Clinton and Klein

[captaindude2]

freeh should never have gotten the job. I would read his tell all book though.

[ClearCase_guy]

Why did Clinton have the affair? "Because I could."

Why didn't Clinton fire Freeh? "Because I couldn't."

What a small man.

[fight_truth_decay]

From NYTimes review:
In fact, "My Life" reads like a messy pastiche of everything that Mr. Clinton ever remembered and wanted to set down in print....... There are some revealing complaints about missteps at the FBI under Louis Freeh's watch , but there are also dozens of pointless digressions about matters like zombies in Haiti and ruins in Pompeii....

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040621.asp

[Alberta's Child]

In Time itself, Klein called Clinton's case against Starr "powerful."

Hold on a moment while I laugh my @ss off . . . The disgraced lawyer who lost his license to practice is accusing the prosecutor in this case of "misconduct"? LOL!!!

"One of the other things that Clinton told us was that he would have fired Louis Freeh as FBI Director if it hadn't been for the media and for the fact that we would have associated that firing with the investigation of the Lewinsky scandal."

I agree with Mr. Klein on this one, but my conclusion is different than his: This is precisely why Bill Clinton should have resigned -- because his ability to function as president was effectively compromised.

[Mobilemitter]

Klein suggested "we might have had a better shot at rolling up those al-Qaeda cells if Bill Clinton had been free to fire Freeh."

What about suggesting... "if Bill Clintoon had been anything but a morally bankrupt self-serving rat and paid enough attention to keep his barrel out of the dirt he could have fired freely....." or something like that... :)

[Eva]

I don't think that it is just the legacy that the press is trying to salvage, I think, at this point, that they are also trying to salvage the very expensive, but boring, book that is attempting to salvage the legacy.

[gathersnomoss]

"Klein suggested "we might have had a better shot at rolling up those al-Qaeda cells if Bill Clinton had been free to fire Freeh."

Again, the "kids" are no longer in control. Thank God.

[Howlin]

"Klein suggested "we might have had a better shot at rolling up those al-Qaeda cells if Bill Clinton had been free to fire Freeh."

[Paul Atreides]

Stupid us! We forgot that nothing is ever Bubba's fault.

[antivenom]

I think it goes deeper than that...it is time for the MEDIA to come to terms that their lying and covering up as well as pushing the lies for Bill Clinton.

...it will be the 8 years of Bill Clinton sandwiched between the 8 years of Reagan and GW Bush (YES he will get 8 years) that will expose the evidence of HOW the media was trying to run itself as another branch of government...

During Clinton's 8 years...Bill decided to replace the "Judical Branch" with the "Media Branch"...and the media doesn't enjoy it's demotion since GW has re-aligned government back to its intended functions...

[fight_truth_decay]

I think the press is trying to salvage their own sinking ship. But what do rats do if leaving a sinking ship? They find a new ship or in this case may prefer dignified [sic] suicide to a life in the ruins of their own creation.