Posted on 10/02/2006 7:26:17 AM PDT by kellynla
WASHINGTON -- A week after Bill Clinton lashed out at anchor Chris Wallace's questioning on "Fox News Sunday," prominent Democrats were still debating among themselves whether the former president's performance was good or bad for their party. However, they all disregarded a harsh but widely overlooked rebuke of Clinton the next morning.
On Sunday, Clinton assailed Wallace for "your nice little conservative hit job on me" in questioning his determination as president to get Osama bin Laden. On CBS's "Early Show" Monday, the head of the CIA's bin Laden unit during the Clinton administration, Michael Scheuer, said the al Qaeda leader "is alive today" because Clinton and his top lieutenants refused to kill him. "It's just an incredible kind of situation," said Scheuer, "for the American people over the weekend to hear their former president mislead them."
Scheuer's blunt remonstrance goes to the heart of what probably impelled Clinton's finger-pointing on national television. Rather than attempting to shape the midterm campaign, as Republicans believe, he was interested in protecting his legacy. No former president in the last half-century has seemed so sensitive to critical assessments of his tenure.
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Clinton lied, and Osama's alive!
Why the HELL did it take Fox this long to put Scheuer on????
Clinton lied - thousands died!
Its all part of being fair and balanced. They have to give all the Clinton defenders the first chance.
At the end he adds that it's all our fault as well.
For those who missed Scheuer's appearance on Fox News Sunday yesterday. Here is his response regarding Clinton et al and OBL. The link to the entire transcript of the program follows.
SCHEUER: Mr. Wallace, my opinion is not all that important. I went to a little Jesuit school in Buffalo called Canicius, and the priests taught us never to lie, but if you had to lie, never lie about facts. Mr. Richard Clarke, Mr. Sandy Berger, President Clinton are lying about the opportunities they had to kill Osama bin Laden. That's the plain truth, the exact truth.
Men and women at the CIA risked their lives to provide occasions to kill a man we knew had declared war and had attacked America four or five times before 1998. We had plans that had been approved by the Joint Operations Command at Fort Bragg. We had opportunities, many opportunities to kill him.
But that's the president's decision. That's absolutely the case. It's not a simple, dumb bureaucrat like me; that's not my decision. It's his. But for him to get on the television and say to the American people he did all he could is a flat lie, sir. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/jane_harman_newt_gingrich_dani.html
"Both President Bush and President Clinton have been very misleading to the American people, telling them we're at war because of our freedoms and our liberties and because of gender equality and because of elections. None of that is true. We're at war because of what we do in the Islamic world."
It's our fault again, now? This Scheuer dude ain't our friend, either.
The only reason Scheuer even got the gig as an analyst with a mainstream news organization is because they thought he was one of them when he wrote his book.
If they had bothered to read the whole book instead of allowing the DNC to tell them what the book was about, they would have seen his harsh criticisms of Clinton.
Of course, now that he's been "exposed", we'll no longer be seeing him on CBS, or any other MSM outlet.
Right now, Jim Woolsley is on Laura Ingrahma's show saying "it isn't fair blaming Clinton"...geesh Louise.
Isn't it against US law if the person to be assassinated a head of state or government?
OBL is neither.
Chavez? A different story, perhaps, because he is an elected official.
Isn't that correct?
"At the end he adds that it's all our fault as well."
But of course, there is plenty of blame to go around.
Don't forget, the 1983 Hezbollah bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut was during the Reagan administration. And Reagan's response was...nada!
Scheuer continued: "He defames the CIA . . . and the men and women who risked their lives to give their administration repeated chances to kill bin Laden."
He's telling it like it is...
No, Scheuer is not a Bush supporter. Which in a way makes his testimony all the more convincing.
I think it is time to make it clear to people who don't get their news from the internet that Sudan offered to hand bin Ladin over to clinton several times, tied up with a pink ribbon, and clinton refused their offer.
We know that, but very few Americans have heard about it, because the media have refused to report it. You'd think that at least Fox would run something on it.
It's the first Monday in October. Time for Diana Ross and the Supremes!
They did. They had a full pull on FNS. Not that anyone saw it, but they did.
As long as "the free press" grey lady is out there to instruct the 5 oclock news, then Joe 6pack figures it's just another smear job on Clinton.
Just because Scheuer is effective in bursting Clinton's bubble is not a good enough reason to cheer him on. His view of the situation in the Middle East appears to be that the actions of barbaric, murderous Islamists are actually our fault (because of what the West, including Israel, has purportedly done in and to Islamic countries). To hold such naive opinions requires ignoring a thousand years of Islamic attacks on civilization and on each other and casts a shadow of doubt on his credibility.
I wrote my reply #18 before seeing yours... Agree completely...
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