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wanttorun100
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 Posted: 09/25/06 - 13:03 Post subject: this man was the leader of the free world?
I think he's losing it
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RangerG
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Posted: 09/25/06 - 13:25 Post subject:
Hey..he was man of the year in Cigar Affectionado Magazine.
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airehead
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Posted: 09/25/06 - 13:41 Post subject:
With the media like ours? Who can blame him!
You can't win no matter what you do. The good you do is never reported in its entirety. The mistakes you make are always exaggerated.
I feel sorry sometimes for the Presidents. They can't win.
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Posted: 09/25/06 - 14:30 Post subject:
Perhaps you should also post a recap of the interview you got those photos from:
Ex-president Clinton defends handling of bin Laden in combative Fox interview
15:47:46 EDT Sep 24, 2006
Canadian Press
President Bill Clinton responds to host Chris Wallace during a taping of an interview for "Fox News Sunday," on Friday in New York. (AP/Fox News Sunday/Michael Simon)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a combative interview on "Fox News Sunday," former president Bill Clinton defended his handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, saying he tried to have bin Laden killed and was attacked for his efforts by the same people who now criticize him for not doing enough.
"That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now," Clinton said in the interview, taped Friday. "They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try."
Clinton accused host Chris Wallace of a "conservative hit job" and asked: "I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked, 'Why didn't you do anything about the Cole?' I want to know how many people you asked, 'Why did you fire Dick Clarke?"'
He was referring to the USS Cole, attacked by terrorists in Yemen in 2000, and former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke.
Wallace said Sunday he was surprised by Clinton's "conspiratorial view" of "a very non-confrontational question, 'Did you do enough to connect the dots and go after al-Qaida?"'
"All I did was ask him a question, and I think it was a legitimate news question. I was surprised that he would conjure up that this was a hit job," Wallace said in a telephone interview.
Clinton said he "worked hard" to try to kill bin Laden.
"We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody's gotten since," he said.
He told Wallace: "And you got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever, but I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it, but I did try and I did everything I thought I responsibly could."
The interview was taped during Clinton's three-day Global Initiative conference.
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wanttorun100
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Posted: 09/25/06 - 14:31 Post subject:
| RangerG wrote: | | Hey..he was man of the year in Cigar Affectionado Magazine. |
if there ever was a ready made anti smoking campaign ...
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Posted: 09/25/06 - 14:35 Post subject:
So Andy, why did he come unglued? After reading the text I think it was a valid question. All he had to say was that he tried and did the best he could. It wasn't a hit job for cripe's sake.
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andydp
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Posted: 09/25/06 - 14:47 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | So Andy, why did he come unglued? After reading the text I think it was a valid question. All he had to say was that he tried and did the best he could. It wasn't a hit job for cripe's sake. |
I have not seen the interview therefore, I can't comment. But...speaking as if it were me: I think he just got tired of the BS and went at it. This story is on about page 5 in most newspapers. So it will be forgotten soon.
Valid points have been made though: Why did the administration "ignore" the threats for 9 months ? Why did Condi Rice and the rest of the NSC wait until Sep 4 to read the reports ? Its well documented that Dick Clarke made plenty of efforts to get the current administration to listen.
Of course this debate should last as long as the Pearl Harbor one...
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Posted: 09/25/06 - 15:05 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | | Why did the administration "ignore" the threats for 9 months ? |
Why did the Clinton adminstration ignore the threats after 8 years?
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andydp
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Posted: 09/25/06 - 15:07 Post subject:
| sonnylax wrote: | | andydp wrote: | | Why did the administration "ignore" the threats for 9 months ? |
Why did the Clinton adminstration ignore the threats after 8 years? |
Eight years or nine months ? How come NOBODY DID ANYTHING ?
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Posted: 09/25/06 - 16:47 Post subject:
"WALLACE: When we announced that you were going to be on Fox News Sunday, I got a lot of e-mail from viewers. And I’ve got to say, I was surprised. Most of them wanted me to ask you this question: Why didn’t you do more to put bin Laden and Al Qaida out of business when you were president?
There’s a new book out, I suspect you’ve already read, called
The Looming Tower. And it talks about how the fact that when you pulled troops out of Somalia in 1993, bin Laden said, I have seen the frailty and the weakness and the cowardice of U.S. troops. Then there was the bombing of the embassies in Africa and the attack on the Cole.
CLINTON: OK, let’s just go through that.
WALLACE: Let me — let me — may I just finish the question, sir?
And after the attack, the book says that bin Laden separated his leaders, spread them around, because he expected an attack, and there was no response.
I understand that hindsight is always 20/20…
CLINTON: No, let’s talk about it.
WALLACE: … but the question is, why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them out of business?
CLINTON: OK, let’s talk about it. Now, I will answer all those things on the merits, but first I want to talk about the context in which this arises.
I’m being asked this on the Fox network. ABC just had a right-wing conservative run in their little Pathway to 9/11, falsely claiming it was based on the 9/11 Commission report, with three things asserted against me directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report.
link to entire interview
And I must say that I find it hard to believe that this man IS the leader of the free world?
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
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Posted: 09/25/06 - 18:34 Post subject:
I thought Clinton came across as very open and honest. ....isn't that what we want??
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wanttorun100
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Posted: 09/26/06 - 11:13 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | | I thought Clinton came across as very open and honest. ....isn't that what we want?? |
too bad he was never that way as president
"Ah never had sex with that whoman!"
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