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White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said on Thursday he regretted suggesting that former U.S. President Bill Clinton's push for a Middle East peace deal was to blame for the last 17 months of violence in the region.

It's always a shame when Republicans lack the courage of their convictions.

Earlier on Thursday, Fleischer suggested that Clinton's ''shoot the moon'' effort to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal before leaving office was responsible for the strife in which nearly 1,200 people have died since September 2000.

It's the truth. Now, if he had any REAL guts he could place a big portion of the blame for 9/11 on Clinton as well. Clinton SHOULD HAVE gotten bin Laden after the bombing of the USS Cole - but he wimped out.

``No United States president, including President Clinton, is to blame for violence in the Middle East. The only people to blame for violence are the terrorists who engage in it,'' Fleischer said. ``I regret any implication to the contrary.''

US Presidents, especially Clinton, who did everything they could to legitimize terrorists like Yasir Arafat, ARE PARTIALLY TO BLAME.

``It is unfortunate that the spokesman for the president, in dealing with the Middle East, is trying to pass blame,'' Clinton spokeswoman Julia Payne said. ``They would be better off using their energies to facilitate the peace process.''

I find it amazing that these leftist scum still believe there is a "peace process". Man...will they ever have any grasp of reality?

A Bush administration official, who spoke after Fleischer issued his statement and asked not to be identified, said: ``We agree completely that President Clinton made tireless, energetic efforts to bring peace to the Middle East.''

Hundreds of Jewish people are enjoying the "peace" Clinton helped bring to the ME - and they are mourned by the living.

This is how the game is played. If they didn't mean it it would come out in the Friday news cycle. Now all the talking heads will be shinning a light on what Clintoid did and the WH can say sorry about that we really didn't mean it the way it was said.

This is 100% planned to spotlight clintoon and don't think it's not !

You obviously have whitewashed this situation in a veil of simplicity. First off to blame Clinton for 9/11 and the rest of this crap is utter nonsense(while he may have been able to help stem the tide a bit that's is nothing but mindless speculation.) To blame Clinton for this then you have to blame Bush Sr. for Saddam and you have to blame Reagan for allowing the Soviet Union to collapse and to leave their nuclear arms available to the highest bidder. Those types of conclusions are pointless.. why you think you can go from A-B you are really going from A-Z and forgetting everything inbetween. Clinton might not of done all the best things but he had to work within certain limits of the world order... just as Bush is able to do now.. stop trying to generalize events and open your eyes.