OMG!!! What a traitorous piece of garbage! It is our fault that a foreign enemy stormed our soil, burned alive, crushed and dismembered 5,000 innocent people as they were peacefully going about their lives?!
"In the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was a Muslim on the Temple Mount. I can tell you that story is still being told today in the Middle East and we are still paying for it."
". . . shrink the pool of potential terrorists. And that has nothing to do with fighting, but that has to do with what else we do.
"This is partly a Muslim issue, because there is a war raging within Islam. We need to reach out and engage the Muslim world in a debate."
He is deliberately attempting to undermine president Bush's strategy by invoking "Crusade" and "war raging within Islam." Does this leave ANY doubt that he would have handled 9-11 any differently than he did the first attack on the WTC in 1993?! And we are supposed to believe that he really, really tried to get OBL? Yeah, right.
Mr. Clinton referred to stories in the media about some American citizens cheering the terrorist attacks and suspected mastermind Osama bin Laden.
"This debate is going on all over America. We've got to stop pretending this isn't out there,"
"We ought to pay for these children to go to school — a lot cheaper than going to war," he said.
Again, he makes me sick to my stomach. This article sums up my response to the pacifist drivel: The Poison of Pacifism
"We've got to defeat people who think they can find their redemption in our destruction."
We've been trying to defeat you for nearly a decade now, Bill Clinton; and we're not through yet.
"And then we have to be smart enough to get rid of our arrogant self-righteousness so that we don't claim for ourselves things we deny for others."
Sounds to me like he should take his own advice.
My knowledge of the Crusades is sketchy, but if I had to wager on the truth of this statement, I would say it is false. It sounds too much like the burning black churches that Billy Blythe remembers from his childhood.