Posted on 09/07/2006 6:11:42 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
The attack by Bill Clinton and his allies on the upcoming ABC miniseries "The Path to 9/11" is "outrageous," charges former Clinton aide Dick Morris.
As NewsMax has reported, Bill Clinton through his surrogates have demanded that ABC "correct all errors" in the docudrama or pull it from the air, charging that it is a "fictitious rewriting of history" regarding President Clinton's handling of the terrorist threat.
But Morris claims that Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, and the president himself "were both responsible for failing to catch or kill bin Laden on several different occasions."
Morris has served Clinton as an advisor for twenty years and notably as Clinton's senior campaign strategist during his 1996 re-election.
Morris states that the evidence for this failure is documented in the 9/11 Commission's report and summarized in "Because He Could," the book about Clinton that Morris co-authored with his wife Eileen McGann.
The commission's report, released in the summer of 2004, "highlighted the weak, incompetent, hesitant, and inconsistent attempts of the Clinton administration to kill or capture Osama bin Laden," according to the book, which devotes an entire chapter to Clinton's mishandling of the threat.
"The report's account shows the president and his advisers at their worst."
One time, the United States "canceled an attempt to kidnap bin Laden out of concern that we might injure or kill him and be accused of using assassination as a policy tool," Morris told NewsMax.
"The president had yet to make a finding that it was OK to kill bin Laden. The reason he had not is that he did not yet know bin Laden's connection to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The reason he did not know that is that he did not fast-track the investigation.
"A second time, we did fire missiles but alerted the Pakistani military to our plans and they tipped off bin Laden, and he escaped."
According to the commission's report, the United States alerted Pakistan because the missiles targeting bin Laden, who was in Afghanistan, had to cross Pakistan, and U.S. officials did not want Pakistan to think the missiles came from India.
"A third time, our plans to attack by missile were canceled, partially out of chagrin over having missed him before and partially because we had just bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade by mistake and were worried about being called trigger happy," said Morris.
"The president was also concerned about civilian deaths in any such attack.
"The underlying theme of the ABC coverage, that he was distracted by impeachment, is of course true. But more so, he was gun-shy" because he was afraid conservatives would say he had launched a failed attack "in an effort to 'wag the dog' and distract people from the Monica Lewinsky affair."
Morris concluded: "His fear of such attacks on him inhibited him from acting."
He was more concerned over his legacy and poll numbers.
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Glad you saw the reasoning. Welcome aboard from a hetro conservative. {:0)
The entire Dim Senate leadership has now composed, sent and sign a threatening letter demanding that the series not be aired! Sitting U.S. Senators, speaking and writing as such, threatening private media -- a broadcaster and it's production companies -- in an affirmed intent to coerce CENSORSHIP of their speech and their work product. Breath taking!
And we might just have hit the nail on the head!!
Yes, but there is no comparison here in many, many ways.
Note to Charlie Gibson: This is what happens when a president is more concerned with what people think of him and say about him than he is with doing what's necessary to defend America.
Ya know, I have to think that the Clintons and their little henchmen (Maddie Notsobright, and Sandy "socks" Burgler) have just made clear they they are INDEED guilty of what the 9/11 commission said they were.
Come hell or high water, they will continue the practices of what got them into power to begin with. Oughtright Lies, only now we KNOW them to be Liars and Criminals.
Game up, you lose Clintonistas. You just cost Hildabeast the Primary in 08.
I can't thank you enough!
I really do think that's what this ALL is about, whatever Sandy stole.
I hope I live long enough to find out what it was/is.
Vince
Foster
was
MURDERED
'nuff said!
On "The Grapevine" during "Special Report With Brit Hume" tonight, Brit reported that "Democratic bloggers plan to 'Google bomb' the 9/11 docudrama" so that anyone trying to look it up will only find moonbat putdowns among the first several dozen search results. So make sure your blog and website entries have "The Path to 9/11" "miniseries" "ABC" "9-11" "WTC" "twin towers" and anything else you can think of, and submit your site at http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl.
...keep in mind he made several trips....it's not only what he stole...its also what he could have intentionally left behind (replaced)...no one seems to be talking about that..
Doogle
It's not so much what he took out and destroyed...later reporting says Sandy PUT BACK some "documents" and it is those I want to see.
Basically, he removed the damaging documents and replaced them with favorable ones.
Why Bush let this guy off the hook is beyond me. I wish GW never stopped drinking...in those days he was a ruthless cutthroat and Sandy Burgler would have felt the wrath.
I'm not a Christian but I love them to death. But in this instance Sandy needs to be treated harshly and not with brotherly love. Bush doesn't mind wiping out our enemies. I just wish he'd realize they are in the DNC as well.
Some of my co-workers are already calling this right-wing propaganda since "Massa Bill" has pronounced it as such.
But they will suck up every drop of pig-vomit that Michael Moore spews out as Gospel.
You, dear poster, have just defined how totalitarian governments come to power.
This story has legs. Not very smart for the dems to do this. It's totally against freedom of speech. I see this story growing momentum through the weekend!
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Color me as *one* conservative who never held the Clintons' political skill in awe, or anywhere near it. They were, and still are today, largely creatures of media invention. What has changed, is that the media "sold their collective souls" to keep their Frankenstein's monster in power, and now, their well of credibility is bone-dry, in a time where they no longer reign unchallenged in the ability to inform the public...
Only now, are they beginning to realize the devil's bargain they made back in 1992. Now, their wailing, and gnashing of teeth will begin...
the infowarrior
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