[okie01]

Gene bin Lyon is up to his usual tricks. Seemingly, he has access to an inexhaustible supply of whitewash.

Amazing how Clinton's apologists never use the precise quote in their contention that Clinton didn't say what he was reported to say. Or that it didn't mean what it appeared to mean.

Just another case of confusion about the meaning of "is", I suppose...

[seamus]

After reading the Washington Times piece, and then the speech itself, I actually agree that the paper's account was wrong. Clinton did not say that we deserved to be attacked. But he did say something just as bad: That America is without sin -- with the insinuation that Bad Karma eventually catches up with you.

The lie that "we are all terrorists" undercuts America's moral superiority to the terrorists who attacked us without provocation. This is exactly what the Taliban and bin Laden say to justify their murderous acts. So Bill Clinton's speech was almost as bad as saying outright that we deserved it.

Lyons also fails to mention that while one columnist for National Review Online took the tack that the Washington Times did, the editorial board of the magazine refuted that interpretation. Of course, if he points that out, he'd be an honest writer -- which everyone on this forum knows he is not.

[IWONDR]

'He did say that this country is "still paying a price" for its past. Who can deny it?'

He admits the truth in the middle of his denial?!?