Posted on 09/25/2006 8:44:26 AM PDT by DBCJR
“I worked hard to try and kill him,” former president Bill Clinton told Fox News Sunday. “I tried. I tried and failed.”
”Him” is Osama bin Laden. And in his interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the former president based nearly his entire defense on one source: Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, the book by former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke. “All I’m asking is if anybody wants to say I didn’t do enough, you read Richard Clarke’s book,” Clinton said at one point in the interview. “All you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror,” he said at another. “All you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s findings and you know it’s not true,” he said at yet another point. In all, Clinton mentioned Clarke’s name 11 times during the Fox interview.
But Clarke’s book does not, in fact, support Clinton’s claim. Judging by Clarke’s sympathetic account — as well as by the sympathetic accounts of other former Clinton aides like Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon — it’s not quite accurate to say that Clinton tried to kill bin Laden.
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Boss Hogg? Now that is ripe. Nice peg on role.
A loud collective response from the American masses replies, "Memory of what? He was the president that felt ma' pain!"
You absolutely nailed that one. That's what I kept screaming when the media bought Cargle's "All this is is about sex." No it wasn't, but treason & illegal campaign financing was ignored. If you go back to his govenor of Arkansas days, there is a trail of whitewashed mysteries that he & Hillary need to answer for.
I can't believe that Barbara Bodine actually nixed the idea of COLE refueling in Aden. 'The Path to 9/11' didn't paint her in a very favorable light. What is exceptionally galling is that the very safe harbor of Djibouti, which is very close to Aden, used to service U.S. warships. I used to wonder what idiot it was that sent COLE to Aden. Richard Clarke has a lot of blood on his hands.
No, it was HW's fault that HW lost the election.
He was the sitting president with an 80% approval rating coming out of the Gulf War. It was HW's election to lose and he lost.
What's the GOP's excuse the loss in `92?
Didn't know about this:
Sandy Hume
Journalist
On Sunday, February 22nd, 1998, Sandy Hume, the 28 year old son of journalist Britt Hume, was reportedly found dead in his Arlington, Virginia home. Aside from the statement that this was an "apparent" suicide, there remains in place a total media blackout on this story, possibly out of concern that the actual facts will not withstand public scrutiny. Indeed, it was reported in Associated Press that the Arlington Police were not responding to any inquiries.
Hume was a reporter for The Hill magazine, newspaper about Congress for Congress, and had broken a major story in 1997 regarding the friction between House Speaker Newt Gingrich and a faction led by Representative Paxon (who announced his resignation just 24 hours after Hume's death).
In addition, Sandy Hume had just joined the staff at Fox TV News and was just three weeks into a job that represented the pinnacle of his young career. Oddly enough, aside from echoing the one Associated Press story, the Fox News website has ignored the death of its newest commentator.
Sandy already had a reputation for getting the story that nobody else wanted to look at, and it is worth noting that his death came hard on the heels of reports that "a reporter" was about to break a story confirming the White House's use of investigators to dig up dirt on critics and investigators.
It has recently been confirmed that the man who performed the as-yet-unreleased autopsy is none other than Dr. James C. Beyer, who has a record of concealing homicides behind a ruling of suicide.
On June 30th 1965 my drill instructor Sgt Bouser told us that excuses were like A-holes, they all stink, some more than others. That was memorable to me, as it was my first full day of Boot Camp.
You are very correct.
WHERE did this come from?
In that interview Clinton kept saying "They accused me of being obsessed with Bin Ladin" or words to that affect. Does anybody know what he is talking about? I'd love to see someone confront Clinton on this point and force him to produce a name of someone, anyone, who criticized him for being too vigilant against Bin Ladin during his presidency?
Post #40. Read the link. Unbelievable!
Wow!
that was 92 with perot. he took 15% and HW had 40% and the toon only got 45%. the split in republican vs conservatives left us with BJ.
You're right. I meant to write `96, not `92. There was no reason the GOP should have lost in `96. Yet they did.
It's a generally accepted fact that Perot bled votes equally from both parties, so the effect was nil.
Wow, the link on post #40 is incredible. Reminds me of all the
peoplw caught in similar circumstances after Kennedy in '63.
If you can stomach it ...mash here....
http://www.alamo-girl.com/
Who's Bill Clinton?
I believe that was a 93% approval rating. No serious Democratic contender would take him on, just a no name governor from a podunk state who had no chance. Clinton was an excellent politician with a very sharp spin crew and sniper assasins. HW stood there & scratched his head watching the impossible happen for 9 months.
Thanks for the correction.
It's easier to blame an outsider than to accept responsibility for their own loss.
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