Posted on 09/11/2006 6:22:09 AM PDT by Grig
"If people blame Bill Clinton after seeing this, then the miniseries has failed," said Kean, the former Republican New Jersey governor.
If people come away from this article without realizing that Kean is a suckass pansy milquetoast shitbag, then the article has failed.
You make a good point. The Democrats and Clinton continually whine and want to rewrite history.
I will.
He wasn't disengaged at all. From what we know, the issue of islamic terrorism was known all too well to the Clinton White House. He refused to confront it, not because he was distracted by Lewinskygate, but because he is a feckless human being, without a shred of character or integrity. Confronting terrorism in a meaningful way would make some percentage of the population not like him, and someone so in need of the approval of others could not stand that.
Save for context.
ABC should run clip after clip of Clinton saying "I need to get back to doing the business of the people".
If he was doing the business of the people, then he was lying.
I agree 100%. He acted like an unprincipled man would.
You are dead-on!
LLS
"Are there no men in Washington, or are they all cowards?"
Actually that line was said by the Afghani head of the Northern Alliance - much more powerful coming from him. It showed that if he could get it, then so could Bin Laden, that they were fighting with Washington Windbags.
I am amused that Clinton (documented perjurer who questions the meaning of "is") and Sandy Bergler (convicted document stealer of classifed papers that proves their complicity in doing nothing) yell Foul - they simply can't stand anything resembling truth about their years in the White House! Why should we care about Liars Protesting that their Lies are ignored? They put my life in danger, and my country on the ropes. I thought the ABC movie went easy on these guys. It could have been a lot worse. Why isn't Buzz Patterson on all the talking heads' shows???? He was there. He saw it all. Dereliction of Duty laid it all out.
Compare the distractions of Clinton to the distractions of Bush. Bush is taking major heat every day from the left. How many d*mn congressional hearings have been called for and demanded? How many from his cabinet have been pulled off of their jobs to answer to the likes of Kennedy and Schumer? Distractions?
Through all this mud being slung around the one thing Bush has done was stay on course and on message. Clinton couldn't, he wasn't capable.
Yes, I think the main impact of this film is not going to be the blaming part, but the ugliness of the Islamists' vision and the need to start to fight them with everything we have. BTW, I thought it was excellent as a movie.
Some days, I think the sarcasm tag is unnecessary.
I guess today ain't one of those days.
That may be in the second part -- we are still in Jan 2000.
Kean proves to be a RINO over and over again.
Yep, that's pretty much the description of the typical Dem voter.
I wonder what they would do for voters in a district if nobody died there for 2 years?
Shalom.
Great analysis, it never pays to hold back!
To make the quote accurate, remove "the business of"
Shalom.
I agree with your observation. The Islamofascists were at war with us and we didn't know it was going on, as we should have known. The decision, under Ford or Carter, to scrap our use of foreign human intelligence hurt us as much as the attacks themselves did.
It is fair to point out 8 Years of Clinton had to have more incidents than 8 Months under President Bush. But, it also fair to say President Bush reacted better and stronger than Clinton or the Democrats ever would have responded.
The war in Iraq was needed and necessary, and it IS a part of the whole War On Terror. Change was sorly needed in the Middle East and President Bush did the right thing even though the Democrats demonize him for doing it. History will decide whether this was good or bad but I will support what President Bush did, as well as what he is doing. I believe President Bush has changed the status quo in the Mideast, and history will reflect his actions as being nothing less than historic.
It was also powerful given the scene later when the Taliban was coming after the Northern Alliance when he turns to the same agent and says, "You try to kill Bin Laden, the Taliban comes after me. This is all your doing."
Washington's cowardice was paid for with the blood of others long before it was paid for with the blood of 9/11/01.
Shalom.
They would lose!
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