Posted on 12/13/2001 9:33:48 PM PST by kattracks
Muslims around the world borrowed a page from ex-President Clinton's damage control handbook on Thursday, when they dismissed as "doctored" a smoking gun videotape featuring Osama bin Laden bragging about the 9/11 attacks.
"This is shameful," said Abdul Latif Arabiat, head of Jordan's mainstream Islamist party the Islamic Action Front, in an interview with Reuters. "Do the Americans really think the world is that stupid to think that they would believe that this tape is evidence?"
"In my view this tape has been fabricated by Washington to condemn bin Laden and conceal America's ugly crimes in Afghanistan. I don't see it as an indictment or proof against bin Laden," said Yousef Abdul Hamid, an Amman taxi driver.
While there may be no comparison between the crimes committed by bin Laden and the disgraced former occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., clearly devotees of the al Qeada leader have learned a thing or two from Clinton spinmeisters.
Ten years ago next month, when Gennifer Flowers released audiotapes proving that she and the then-Democratic presidential candidate had been romantically involved, Clinton operatives George Stephanopoulos and James Carville insisted to reporters her tapes had been doctored.
Hardened reporters who now scoff at Muslim skepticism over the bin Laden video took to referring to Flowers' evidence as "the alleged tapes."
Six years later, when another set of audiotapes emerged featuring Monica Lewinsky discussing her Clinton affair with Linda Tripp, his defenders sounded like the disgruntled Arabs quoted above.
Rather than admit what she and everybody else knew, Hillary Clinton used "The TODAY Show" to charge that a vast right wing conspiracy had fabricated the story, much the way some in the Mideast now blame 9/11 on a global Zionist cabal.
Stephanopoulos popped up again, this time as a "journalist," and actually became the first to mention impeachment from his then-new perch on ABC's "This Week."
But like Muslims who can't accept the bin Laden smoking gun, the former Clinton operative was still in denial over Flowers, so much so that he repeated during one radio interview the old canard that her tapes had been doctered.
As least Mideast disbelievers can hang their hats on the bin Laden video's extremely muddy audio and the possibility that his Arabic may have been mistranslated.
But what was the excsue of Democratic Party spinmeister Victor Kamber three yearss ago, when he insisted, "Just because his semen is on her dress doesn't mean they had sex." And that was after DNA tests proved a Clinton-Lewinsky relationship.
Bin Laden tape skeptics can also take comfort in the words of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Ak), who reportedly told prosecutors during Clinton's impeachment trial, "I don't care if you've got videotape of Clinton raping a woman then shooting her dead, we're not going to vote to convict."
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The Clinton apologists stood by their man no matter what the scumbag did. I always thought that he could be captured on video committing murder and his apologists would call it a forgery manufactured by the VRWC.
Osama's followers are exactly the same. He can commit any atrocity and they will defend him. There is no proof or evidence in the world they would not explain away.
This is what makes both men so dangerous.
If they are defending OBL, then they are making statments which show they are complicit in a terrorist conspiracy.
And the Arabs on Paltalk and in Yahoo chatrooms. You really don't find Arabs condemning what happened on Sept 11. It doesn't take too much to see what they are really in the US to do.
It's not against Islam to lie to an infidel.
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