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Hillary Grills Rumsfeld on 'Missed Opportunity' to Get Bin Laden
NewsMax ^ | 8/17/04 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 08/17/2004 7:13:56 PM PDT by wagglebee

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton questioned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday about claims that the Bush administration missed a chance to kill Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks, asking him to explain the failure to 9/11 victim families.

Rumsfeld was testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee about revising the military force structure when committee-member Clinton switched gears, asking him about the 9/11 Commission report.

Citing a commission finding calling the Bush administration's failure to arm Predator drones a "missed opportunity" in the hunt for bin Laden, Clinton asked Rumsfeld to respond to questions from 9/11 victim families.

In testimony before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee earlier in the day, 9/11 family spokeswoman Kristin Breitweiser complained about arguments between the Pentagon and the CIA over the use of Predator drones.

"As their heated debate continued over money and responsibilities, al Qaida was already here in the U.S., lying in wait, fully embedded and prepared to kill 3,000 innocent people," Breitweiser said, in quotes picked up by CNN.

"If that does not illustrate how off-the-mark our military and intelligence community was in the months leading up to 9/11, I don't know what does," she complained.

"The status quo has failed us," 9/11 relative Stephen Push testified. "The current allocation of intelligence budgets failed to prevent the murder of nearly 3,000 people in one day on American soil."

Rumsfeld had not responded to Sen. Clinton's request by the time the Armed Services Committee hearing ended.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaida; commiewhore; enemywithin; hillaryknew; hitlery; missedopportunity; obl; rumsfeld; saveamerica; stophillary; traitor; x42
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What a f**ing hypocrite this b!+ch is!
1 posted on 08/17/2004 7:14:01 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee

Rumsfeld is such a disciplined man. I'm sure he wanted to tell her Leahy off.


2 posted on 08/17/2004 7:16:21 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Never again trust Democrats with national security!)
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To: wagglebee

Go home and complain to your stinkin' husband, b*&ch, and leave Rumsfeld alone. You're not fit to be in the same room with him.


3 posted on 08/17/2004 7:16:30 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (Let he who has ears to hear, hear. Support the heroes of the SwiftBoat Vets.)
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"If that does not illustrate how off-the-mark our military and intelligence community was in the months leading up to 9/11, I don't know what does," she complained.

"Well, ma'am, you don't un-do eight years of ineptitude in 8 months."

4 posted on 08/17/2004 7:16:30 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: wagglebee

of course - but the reason it works for them - is that they know no one will go out there and take them on point blank about this. If Rumsfeld got up there and took them on about the failures of the system under 8 years of Clinton, that would shut the b*tch up once and for all.


5 posted on 08/17/2004 7:16:40 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: wagglebee

Hildebeast should ask her husband that question and NOT Rumsfeld.


6 posted on 08/17/2004 7:17:16 PM PDT by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT!)
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To: wagglebee

The witch is fishing for votes in NY even before she starts campaigning.


7 posted on 08/17/2004 7:17:57 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: wagglebee

Does she know she's still married? And to whom???

Gosh, I hope my grammar's correct...

8 posted on 08/17/2004 7:18:45 PM PDT by Fintan (Geez, I had no idea ALL women washed their hair on Friday nights...)
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To: oceanview

Wouldn't you just love to see Rummy smack her down! He pretty much put a beatdown on McCain today, and it was very sweet.


9 posted on 08/17/2004 7:18:46 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl (Let he who has ears to hear, hear. Support the heroes of the SwiftBoat Vets.)
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To: wagglebee

I would have told her that she and her co-president had him offered to them at least three times? Why did not they take him then?


10 posted on 08/17/2004 7:19:13 PM PDT by sport
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I would have loved to seen him go Jack Nicholson on her,

"The Truth, You Can't Handle the Truth!".

11 posted on 08/17/2004 7:19:16 PM PDT by taildragger
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To: wagglebee

Wouldn't ya love to shove a copy of "Losing Bin Laden" down her throat? Sheesh.


12 posted on 08/17/2004 7:19:44 PM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: oceanview

Ms Clinton is trying to divert attention from connections to McGreevey.


13 posted on 08/17/2004 7:20:30 PM PDT by alrea (read charts not headlines)
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To: wagglebee

"What a f**ing hypocrite this b!+ch is!"

I say this every time I hear that whiny smarmy croak she makes.


14 posted on 08/17/2004 7:20:51 PM PDT by eleni121 (Thank God for John Ashcroft: Four more years!)
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To: wagglebee

Yo! Hillary!

I thought you were The Smartest Woman Alive! How hard can it be to hide FBI files AND watch over your (ahem) husband at the same time?

Huh?


15 posted on 08/17/2004 7:21:14 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (If only hamsters could vote.......)
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To: StarFan

Kristen alert.


16 posted on 08/17/2004 7:21:16 PM PDT by Howlin (Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
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To: wagglebee

Quoth Bubba: 'If they's a turtle on a fence post som'un had to put it there!'


17 posted on 08/17/2004 7:22:03 PM PDT by Calusa (One Nation Gone Under.)
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To: Texas Eagle

"If that does not illustrate how off-the-mark our military and intelligence community was...,"

Trust ol' Hillary to leave out some very important words "and the whole eight years of mine and Bill's leading the counry.."

She is slime, plain and simple.


18 posted on 08/17/2004 7:22:44 PM PDT by Theresawithanh ( Flush the Johns in 2004!!!!!)
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To: wagglebee

What Rummy should have said: "I'll explain our short window of opportunity to get bin Laden only when you explain why your husband didn't kill him or give a crap in 8 years."


"Oh, I forgot, he was getting some in the Oval Office..."


19 posted on 08/17/2004 7:22:57 PM PDT by ChildofReagan (Deus Vult)
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To: Texas Eagle

"you don't un-do eight years of ineptitude in 8 months."

GooD One!


20 posted on 08/17/2004 7:23:17 PM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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