Guess which one is clinton ...
Posted on 09/11/2007 12:47:03 PM PDT by Fintan
This July, for the third straight year, The Atlantic and the Aspen Institute co-hosted the Aspen Ideas Festival. What follows are excerpts from this year’s discussions, including Colin Powell on his attempt to avoid war with Iraq, Richard Branson on the dawn of private spaceflight, Thomas Friedman on why the world isn’t really going green, and Bill Clinton on whether he did enough to prevent 9/11.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Who cares, the man is a liar.
“...the Aspen Ideas Festival...”
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As if Billy Bob had any valid ideas about anything. About the only things he knew how to do was shirk his responsibiilty as President and boink anything female.
Back when the web Atlantic was free, I read a great article about how the Koran could not be fully translated because it's 25% gibberish, check it out in the archives.
Don't ask him about it!
That tongue thrust shot is really yuk.
We prevented an enormous number of attacks. The Republicans, let me remind you, when I tried to get Osama bin Laden, based on good intelligence, they accused me of “wag the dog,” and they made fun of me, and they said we shouldn’t be doing anything about this. And one of the reasons I thought President Bush was disserved is a lot of his neocon advisers said that we were crazy when we told him in the transition that the biggest problem was bin Laden. They said any fool knew that Saddam Hussein was a bigger threat to our security than Osama bin Laden.
… So the same people that are criticizing me now criticized me then, because I was obsessed with bin Laden. We dealt with him four or five days a week, every week, for the last four years I was president. I did not turn down one request for the use of force. We tried to mount a CIA operation to go in and take him out; they couldn’t do it. We contracted with tribals to try to take him out; they couldn’t do it. I was willing to use whatever power I could—we didn’t have, until 9/11, any kind of basing rights, remember, in Uzbekistan or anyplace else; the logistics of doing this were much different.
I would’ve attacked him at the end of my presidency, even though they would’ve accused me of trying to affect the outcome of the presidential election, but the CIA and the FBI had not jointly certified that he was responsible for the USS Cole bombing, even though we all knew it. If I had been president in the spring of 2001, when they did confirm that, I would’ve given the Taliban an ultimatum … But I wasn’t there then.
… I don’t think there’s any question that we were far more obsessed with him—and I don’t mind using the word—than the Bush administration. Their obsession was Saddam. You can draw your own conclusions about who should’ve done what when; I don’t think we should be in the business of blaming anybody for 9/11.
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“They said any fool knew that Saddam Hussein was a bigger threat to our security than Osama bin Laden. “
The LYING one lies in this statement - I guarantee you that no Bush Adminstration would tell an ex-president to his face that he was “a fool”...He lies, and then lies about what he’s lying about!
Given that we're remembering the events of September 11, 2001, today and it wasn't just another working Tuesday, it's obvious he failed, the lying lip-biting self-serving bastard!
These are out-and-out lies! The only thing Bubba was and is obsessed with is his penis and how he's going to get it taken care of that day.
Of course! Bush’s fault! Thanks for the post.
Hopefully, somebody will post that link where he admitted that Sudan offered him bin Laden, but he turned them down because he didn't want to have an international incident.
Hopefully, somebody will post that link where he admitted that Sudan offered him bin Laden, but he turned them down because he didn't want to have an international incident.
Bill Clinton was never fit or mature enough to be president. The events of his years in office only confirm that. Sadly, as with the actions of other democrats, his failures as president have left all the rest of us to suffer the consequences of immaturities, selfish neglects and the pathetic need for public adoration.
He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan.
- Bill Clinton, before the Long Island Association on February 15, 2002
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