Posted on 09/11/2006 3:16:40 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
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RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites. I mentioned in the last hour that somebody called and said that old Christiane Amanpour in a little CNN story, In the Footsteps of Bin Laden, mentioned a couple times Clinton had the chance to get Bin Laden and didn't do it. The caller was a little bit surprised. I made the remark that Clinton is on tape saying that the Sudanese offered Bin Laden but they didn't have any legal reason to take him.
Our NewsMax buddies have this tape and they've got it up on their website now. We have it here for you, too, it you would like to listen to it. It's sort of bad quality, Internet quality (lousy audio, actually). He's making a speech to a group of people somewhere. I forget where this was taking place. But this is what he said.
CLINTON: ...Mr. Bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with him again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan.
RUSH: (Clinton impression) "Yeah, he just happened to end up over in Afghanistan because I didn’t have reason to take him," but in the case where Yousef and his cronies were convicted, there was an indictment for Bin Laden. He was mentioned in an indictment as being a coconspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center attack. So there was reason to hold him, and that was accurately portrayed last night. Mary Jo White was the US attorney for the Southern District of Manhattan, of New York, and John O'Neill was happy as hell when he learned from her that Bin Laden could be pursued under terms of the indictment. Clinton had the chance, didn't do it.
Now, that tape you just heard was from February of 2002. September 3rd of 2002, about seven months later, Clinton is on Larry King Alive, and King says, "You remember what you were thinking, Mr. President? What would go through the mind of the immediate former president watching the 9/11 attacks?"
CLINTON: I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, "My God, a second plane has hit the tower -- second tower," and I said, "Bin Laden did this." That's the first thing I said. He said, "How can you be sure?" I said, "Because only Bin Laden and the Iranians could set up the network to do this, and they wouldn't do it because they have a country and targets." Bin Laden did.
KING: Did you also think at the same time, "We came pretty close to getting him"?
CLINTON: Yeah. I thought that my...virtual obsession with him was well-faced, and I was full of regret that I didn't get him. I mean, I immediately thought that he had done it.
RUSH: (sigh) I've tried to tell you people for countless numbers of years now, we're dealing with a... the man has a genuine problem. You just heard from February 2002, essentially the Sudanese wanted to give bin Laden to us, and Clinton wasn't interested. Now you've just heard that Clinton had a "virtual obsession" with him and was "full of regret that I didn't get him, I mean I immediately thought that he had done it." (Clinton impression) "I told Bruce Lindsey when that second tower went, I said, 'I know it's Bin Laden! I know it. Only the Bin Laden guys and the Iranians could have done it. The Iranians aren't going to do it because they're a country; that makes them a big target. I knew Bin Laden did it. I was virtually obsessed with this guy, and I knew it was…"
(sigh) Back in just a second. I just don't want to relive the nineties.
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bttt
LOL yep
Come on give Bubba a break
Poor guy was War Weary from commanding his great victories in Haiti and the Balkans
I recall working in an office filled with liberals (pre-911) and they could never understand why I hated Clinton so much. I think there was only one other person in the entire building that agreed with me. I could sense over the years that something terrible was going to happen.
Clinton - compulsive liar ping.
Virual obsession as contrasted from actual obsession.... how many camels did Bubba kill again?
Clinton is a serial liar.
Anyone who remembers those days will remember that Sudan offered to send him bin Ladin on a silver platter, and clinton turned the offer down.
Incidentally, anyone who was around back then will clearly remember that one of clinton's chief designated villains was SADDAM HUSSEIN. (The other was Milosevitch.) Every time there was a scandal or something that required a distraction, clinton would demonize Saddam in big headlines all over the MSM, accuse him of defying the UN weapons inspectors, and send in a wave of planes to bomb the watchyoumaycallit zone.
Now clinton's pals are saying that we'd be better off with Saddam still in office. Well, no doubt he would still be in office if clinton had managed to make himself President for Life, because he was a most convenient villain.
The man lies when the truth would serve him better.
I didn't know bologna could stretch. But there it is -- proof!
I don't get what he is supposed to mean about Iran.
If I were a DU'r, I might buy that as bubba's instantenous response.
Yeah, when I heard that "virtual obsession" line my response was "only if bin Laden had a (female organ)".
I don't know about camels, but he DID pardon 16 terrorists before he left office.
Yeah, and invited more to the White House!
Thanks for this ping. God comfort all heavy hearts this day.
"You can't say you love your country and hate your government." - Bill Clinton 1995
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