Incredible.....BJ turns down a little head.
Posted on 09/23/2006 1:49:25 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
The liberal website Thinkprogress has published a rough transcript of Bill Clinton's interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, and it appears to be even more contentious than the brief clip that has been released shows. Here are some excerpts from Clinton's angry defense of his conduct of the war on terrorism, beginning when Wallace asked him "Why didn't you do more, connect the dots and put [al Qaeda] out of business?"
I will answer all of those things on the merits but I want to talk about the context of which this arises. I’m being asked this on the Fox network…[note — these ellipses are in the Thinkprogress transcript]. ABC just had a right wing conservative on the 'Path to 9/11' falsely claim that it was based on the 911 commission report with three things asserted against me that are directly contradicted by the 9/11 commission report. I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say that I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was obsessed with Bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neocons claimed that I was too obsessed with finding Bin Laden when they didn’t have a single meeting about Bin Laden for the nine months after I left office. All the right wingers who now say that I didn’t do enough said that I did too much. Same people….
I authorized the CIA to get groups together to try to kill him. The CIA was run by George Tenet who President Bush gave the medal of freedom to and said he did a good job.. The country never had a comprehensive anti terror operation until I came to office. If you can criticize me for one thing, you can criticize me for this, after the Cole I had battle plans drawn to go into Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban, and launch a full scale attack search for Bin Laden. But we needed basing rights in Uzbekistan which we got after 9/11. The CIA and the FBI refused to certify that Bin Laden was responsible while I was there. They refused to certify. So that meant I would have had to send a few hundred special forces in helicopters and refuel at night. Even the 9/11 Commission didn’t do that. Now the 9/11 Commission was a political document too. All I’m asking is if anybody wants to say I didn’t do enough, you read Richard Clarke’s book…
At least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try and they didn’t….. {ellipses in the Thinkprogress transcript]. I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke… [ellipses in Thinkprogress transcript] So you did Fox's bidding on this show. You did you nice little conservative hit job on me….
I worked hard to try and kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since. And if I were still president we’d have more than 20,000 troops there trying to kill him. Now I never criticized President Bush and I don’t think this is useful. But you know we do have a government that think Afghanistan is 1/7 as important as Iraq. And you ask me about terror and Al Qaeda with that sort of dismissive theme when all you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror. And you’ve got that little smirk on your face. It looks like you’re so clever…
Clinton's answers raise many points that call for answers. More tomorrow.
He ain't known as Slick Willy for nothing.
Just imagine if some interviewer gets Hillary!'s "I am sick and tired" soul to come to the surface. That'd make Willy look like a piker.
There was an interview that came out last year with Clinton on BBC and they brought up something and Clinton went from pleasant to scary pissed off like the flip of a switch. The vein in his forehead bulged, his face turned red, he leaned forward threateningly and pointed across the table at the BBC interviewer accusing him: "You and your right wing media...".
Where's Fitzgerald when you need him? This is tailor-made for him.
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It is so unfortunate that the MSM actually control much of our judicial system through perception management. I mean for the love of god he admitted he gave the clear to fire. We have him in Check mate:
1. He lies ( "I ordered the assasination of UBL") and goes to jail for ordering an assasination he never ordered.
2. He tells the truth ("I ordered the assasignation of UBL") and goes to jail for really ordering an assasination.
3. He admits that he lied, did not order an assasignation and the entire world gets to catch him in another lie....it is beautiful.
Don't get me wrong... I am all in favor of assasinating terrorists
Yuh. They should name a strain of genital herpes after him. He just never will go away for good.
It's almost as coming back through the magic door to the kiddie's bedroom with a sock on your back.
“I take care of my friends, and I fuck with my enemies.”
--Bill Clinton,
in George Stephanopolous’s book, “All Too Human”
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b6724603432.htm
Thanks for clarification. I am preparing my arsenal for Thanksgiving Day, after we keep control of Congress and I unload on my Lib relatives.
I do.
He should calm down--after all, he did have major heart surgery. I certainly do not want him to achieve room temperature for the simple reason that if he did, Hillary would get a LOT of sympathy and would be a stronger candidate.
Well, I'll have to depend on you fellow Freepers to give me play by play on the interview. It disgusts me to even look at the man, so I'm not gonna watch it.
hmmmmm....Arafat and Monica....Monica and Arafat. There's a mental image that I hope to get rid of before bedtime.
Sam Donaldson (hardly a member of the VRWC) once said that to Clinton:
1. The Truth,
2. The Whole Truth, and
3. Nothing but the Truth,,,,
ARE THREE DIFFERENT STORIES!
Incredible.....BJ turns down a little head.
Thank you...
Clinton is just TOO easy to write "jokes" about, isn't he??
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872152/
Here is the website to submit questions to be asked on Meet the Press if you want to send some of those great ones you asked in post #134.
Can you imagine the problem this man will become for his wife if she runs for President? If he can't even make it through a 20 minutes interview, how's he going to make it through an 18-month campaign? Of course, I've always thought that if Hill runs, he will do his best to undermine her.
Ain't it the truth!
LLS
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