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.
Rumsfeld is such a disciplined man. I'm sure he wanted to tell her Leahy off.
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.
"Well, ma'am, you don't un-do eight years of ineptitude in 8 months."
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.
Hildebeast should ask her husband that question and NOT Rumsfeld.
The witch is fishing for votes in NY even before she starts campaigning.
Does she know she's still married? And to whom??? |
Gosh, I hope my grammar's correct...
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.
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?
"The Truth, You Can't Handle the Truth!".
Wouldn't ya love to shove a copy of "Losing Bin Laden" down her throat? Sheesh.
Ms Clinton is trying to divert attention from connections to McGreevey.
"What a f**ing hypocrite this b!+ch is!"
I say this every time I hear that whiny smarmy croak she makes.
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?
Kristen alert.
Quoth Bubba: 'If they's a turtle on a fence post som'un had to put it there!'
"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.
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..."
"you don't un-do eight years of ineptitude in 8 months."
GooD One!
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