Posted on 09/25/2006 8:35:10 AM PDT by presidio9
Former President Bill Clinton, angrily defending his efforts to capture Osama bin Laden, accused the Bush administration in an interview to be broadcast Sunday of doing far less to stop Mr. bin Laden before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
In the interview for Fox News Sunday, Mr. Clinton defended the steps he took after the bombing of the destroyer Cole in 2000 and faulted right-wingers for their criticism of his efforts to capture Mr. bin Laden, the Qaeda leader.
But at least I tried. Thats the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now, Mr. Clinton said when asked whether he had failed to anticipate the full threat from Mr. bin Laden. They had eight months to try; they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed.
The Sept. 11 attacks occurred almost eight months after President Bush succeeded Mr. Clinton in January 2001.
I authorized the C.I.A. to get groups together to try to kill him, Mr. Clinton said.
Now if you want to criticize me for one thing, he continued, you can criticize me for this: after the Cole, I had battle plans drawn to go into Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban and launch a full-scale attack search for bin Laden. But he said he was not able to follow through with his plans, adding, We needed basing rights in Uzbekistan, which we got after 9/11.
Mr. Clinton complained at the time that the C.I.A. and F.B.I. had refused to certify that Mr. bin Laden was responsible for the Cole attack.
Earlier this month, Mr. Clinton dismissed as indisputably wrong a television movie that suggested he was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky scandal to confront the Islamic militant threat that culminated in
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maybe Bush could have started the war on terror sooner if the clinton hacks didn't steal the W's off the computers and if his first 2 months didn't involvle court battle after court battle till gore admitted he lost..
And don't forget he had a serious foreign policy crisis with China in the summer of 2001. One of their fighters rammed a US surveilance aircraft in international airspace, and the plane had to make an emergency landing on Chinese soil. I still don't think he should have apologized.
This one pissing contest Billy Jeff is going to lose! He should just shut up and continue his whoring after funds for his 'global initiative', whatever the hell that is!
I missed it. I don't want hihg blood pressure ... . Clinton is such as disgrace.
"Remember, you only met once with your CIA Director in 8 years!"
I wonder how much OBL paid Clintoon to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom? :)
Yeah,Right!
...still waiting to hear anybody blame Clinton for what al Qaeda did to us on Febuary 26, 1993.
How convenient is it the MSM has forgotten about Bush's first several months in office?
Remember how the Democrats held up all his nominations and appointments? The Bush administration was understaffed for many, many months. I wonder how much that hurt our national security?
I remember thinking, "Someday, they are going to criticize Bush for something during that period."
As predicted, it's beginning to look like FOX played right into Bubba's scheme! I despise that SCUMBAG and his little evil demon hordes! This is the BIG plot they have been planning for quit sometime now. Bubba wants W to get ALL the blame so that he will have a clean slate when HIS legacy is written down on books. With all those liberal historians on his side it looks like it JUST might happen!
When you're"probing"gets too close too"The Truth",you get a reaction.Klintoon knows that his"Legacy"will forever be "shaded"by his failure to combat terrorism and Monica.Chris Wallace was like a dentist;he struck a nerve in Klintoon's mouth!!!
THE REAL DEAL:
Berger, who for Hillary Clinton, let bin Laden go
both from the Sudanese and was he was briefly vulnerable to missile attack.
[e.g. US News & World Report, Paul Bedard, 15 Mar 2003]
Berger repeatedly rebuffed Sudanese offers to hand Osama bin Laden
to the United States in a deal brokered by a $900,000 contributor to Democrat campaigns.
Source 1 - National Review, "Clinton & Khobar", Rich Lowry
Source 2 - Washington Times, "Miniter Responds", Richard Miniter
FOX should interview Albright next.
September 22, 2000: Bin Laden, in a tape, says that he will attack US ships
October 12, 2000: (Cole Attack)(Albright speaking about why Yemen was taken off the terrorist country list)
"Well, as you know, we're very careful in determining how that list is put together. And there are a variety of considerations in it, and we obviously felt there was a reason to."
The fact remains: if Bin Laden had been a female bimbo with big hair, Bill Clinton would have nailed him!!
Absolutely!I remember when Steffie was asked about Klintoon's broken campaign promise to give the"middle-class"a tax cut(Steffie had just said that Klintoon had made good on ALL his campaign promises).His response was that he(Klintoon)had "Never worked harder"on anything,but he (in the end)just couldn't do it.Steffie looked the newsies right in the eye when he said this!I was flabbergasted at the realization that these Lefties think that if they mention something,this is akin to "accomplishing"same!!
I'm trying to remember us "upping our National Security" or even of mention of it. But all I can remember is Mrs. Daschle lobbying against increasing airline security.
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