Posted on 09/12/2006 2:06:39 PM PDT by pissant
NEW YORK: Former US president Bill Clinton said yesterday that his administration had thwarted a number of large-scale terror attacks, but he acknowledged its efforts were "not enough" to prevent the horror of September 11.
Mr Clinton would not comment directly on the mini-series, which aired in two parts on Sunday and Monday in Australia, that suggested he was soft on al-Qai'da, but he said his administration had stopped other similar attacks.
During his administration "some attacks were prevented, acouple that would have done asmuch damage as 9/11", he said, at the dedication of a September 11 memorial in Bayonne, New Jersey.
"Many cells were rooted out, but in the end, it was not enough."
Clinton aides criticised the American Broadcasting Corporation's Path to 9/11.
A spokesman noted that the pro football game featuring quarterback brothers Peyton and Eli Manning overwhelmingly drew more viewers.
Mr Clinton "made the choice that most Americans made", said Jay Carson, a Clinton Foundation spokesman.
"Of a fictionalised drama version of September 11 or the Manning brothers playing football against one another, he chose the latter."
In Washington, the 9/11 commission co-chairmen politely disagreed about the movie.
Former Republican governor of New Jersey, Tom Kean, a consultant to the production, said: "I think they did a pretty good job."
But former Democrat congressman Lee Hamilton said: "It is either a documentary or it is a drama and to fudge it causes me a great deal of concern and suggests to me that news and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined.
"And I do not think that is good for the country."
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Clinton 'not soft on terror'
nooooooo, he was Hard on it
Prove it, Bubba, you chronic liar!
Name ONE Sink Emperor. The Millenium Bomber does not count. That said, nice to see you taking the bait, 'Toon. It's the debate we want...
He was having a helluva time getting Monica's thong dislodged.
Tell us more there slick.
Four attacks during the Clinton years and the response was to blow up a tent and an aspirin factory. Look at Somalia for examples of the Clinton "war" against the Islamo Fascists.
The attacks that were prevented were by border guards and FBI agents doing their jobs, something Clinton wasn't doing while being serviced by Ms. Lewinsky.
Let me guess... but he can't tell us about them 'cause they're "classified." Yeah, right.
That whole Clinton story is just so sad, soggy. You can really get worked up thinking about how that degenerate was our President and how he led this country into the shredder and soiled our history.
He's psychotic. If not for his political success, he would have been a drugged out rapist. Oh wait...
How about the intertwining of facts and partisan politics, like the 9/11 Commission dabbled in?
Now that the so called threats he prevented are in the past, I wonder why he won't be specific and tell us a good yarn?
The face that cost several thousand lives.
Clinton not soft on interns.
Amazing how keeps saying "it wasn't enough to prevent it."
If George W. Bush made such an admission, the media would call for a lynch mob. Clinton is ratched up two notches as a minor deity.
The Teflon Dirtball.
Scumbag, low life, lying ....SOB-
It's just that no one can remember what they were.
Maybe it was that Jewell guy in Atlanta. /sarcasm
Let's see.....was "terror" the White House code name for Monica?
He'd tell us more, but the intel on the thwarted alien spaceship attack, the Death Star blast he deflected with his Super Space Mirror, and the army of rabid werewolves on fire-breathing buffalo he single-handedly fought off is still classified. Plus, he's so modest.
Must be the Duracells in one of Monica's "toys"
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