Posted on 09/26/2006 5:50:10 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Sen. Hillary Clinton has spoken up in support of her husband Bill’s defense of his anti-terror efforts, saying she’s tired of Democrats being pushed around on national security issues.
"I just think that my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take this,” she said on Monday in remarks reported by Newsday.
In a heated discussion with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday,” Bill Clinton said that as president, he did more than many of his conservative critics to pursue al-Qaida, and alleged that President Bush didn’t try to stop terrorism in the eight months of his presidency before the 9/11 attacks.
Hillary agreed, adding: "All you have to do is read the 9/11 commission. I thought all he did was state what had been repeatedly found in the various studies that have taken place.”
Hillary continued: "I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States,'" Clinton said, "he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team."
Curiously, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also referred to the commission in ripping Clinton’s claims and defending the Bush administration’s efforts against terrorism: "I would just suggest that you go back and read the 9/11 commission report on the efforts of the Bush administration in the eight months . . .
"The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn’t do that is just flatly false – and I think the 9/11 commission understood that.”
In any case, even conservatives like Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol see political benefits in Clinton’s headline-grabbing counterattack on his critics. He said: "In this interview, Clinton rallied Democrats. He reminded them of their talking points on Bush's alleged passivity in his first eight months in office . . .
"If the Bush-Rove war-on-terror offensive stalls out this week . . . and Democrats do well in November, Bill Clinton can take credit, at a crucial moment, for discrediting the terror issue as a mere political ploy, and showing Democrats how ‘to fight back.’”
"Hillary continued: "I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States,'"
So, basically they wanted an engraved invitation to defend the United States? That whole part of the Presidential oath about defending the US against all enemies didn't mean anything to them? She is such an ass.
Well, a blowing wind won't push him around, but just let something suck on him and see what happens.
Bill's tombstone will read: "Here, lies."
"He Tried as Hard as He Could".
......you forgot..."He Tried as Hard as He Could, but Failed"....that's better
..won't get pushed around...???..LOLROTFWMKL... (laughingoutloudrollingonthefloorwettingmykittylitter)
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Gotta watch out for that VRWC. It is all-seeing, all-knowing - and the controller of this enormous group is Rove, who is truly all-seeing and all-knowing.
Probably her highness's home(s), car(s), even her hair dresser's place, is bugged - If I were her, I would fire everyone and really clean house.
This is all too funny for words. When will Chelsea sound off, I wonder? I think it is probably time for the poor child to voice her sadness about the way her poor put-upon father is being treated by the VRWC.
Let's see, who else is due to come out of the woodwork?
Larry Elder is right. This was a set up for The Rapist to express outrage and help the Dems and his evil wife.
You can always count on Bill Crystal to support Bill and Hill.
Not long enough, she's awful. She is right about you
can't push bill around, but any woman in 20 feet and bill
will try to lay her down, even if the woman has been dead for ages.
Remember the mummy.....maybe that was bill problem
his mummy.
ROTFLMAO!
Awww, c'mon, now THAT'S comedy!
Oh Yeah??? Well he sure pushed *you*
around, gidn't he Hillary..,Good job
hiding all the bruises...
I thought ashtrays were her personal preference. The bent one, for his part, seemed to prefer walking into the edge of doors in the middle of the night.
What choices does she have? Call him and her liars, they are making the best of a bad week. Frankly a Dem loss in '06 sets her up nicely as their only dope.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
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