Posted on 09/25/2006 6:48:13 PM PDT by milwguy
Last week, former president Bill Clinton took some time out of his busy dating schedule to have a not so friendly chat with Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday. Given his rabidity, Mr. Clinton might consider taking a few milligrams of Valium the next time he allows himself to face "fair and balanced" questions, assuming once wasn't enough that is.
This wasn't Mr. Clinton's finest hour. In fact, it could be by far the worst performance of his career, which is saying a lot given that his acting skills were typically much more apparent than his policy-making acumen when he was in office.
From the onset, Mr. Clinton seemed ill at ease. This is understandable, as he didn't see the normally comforting initials of the "Clinton News Network" proudly displayed on the video cameras in front of him. But, this doesn't absolve him of appearing before the American people as if he were Norman Bates just questioned about his mother.
On the other hand, maybe asking the former president anything of consequence these days will elicit such volatility, as the fireworks started as soon as Wallace brought up historically factual statements made in a new book, The Looming Tower. In it, author Lawrence Wright addressed how Osama bin Laden had indicated that when American troops pulled out of Somalia in 1993, he and his al Qaeda buddies saw this as an indication of American weakness.
Although this certainly couldn't have been the first time he had heard this, it didn't sit very well with Mr. Clinton, who lashed out in a fury akin to a president that had just been accused of having sexual relations with an intern
oops url for article is at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/09/bill_clinton_bin_laden_and_hys.html
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“We have seen in the last decade the decline of the American government and the weakness of the American soldier who is ready to wage Cold Wars and unprepared to fight long wars. This was proven in Beirut when the Marines fled after two explosions. It also proves they can run in less than 24 hours, and this was also repeated in Somalia.” - Osama Bin Laden, May 1998
.............is that good enough for you?
I would assume "The Looming Tower" (Lawrence Wright)
here is the url for that and many other comments obl has made about our counthttp://www.defenddemocracy.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=358633ry during the clintonian years........
If you listen to them, he says it on at least one of his video tapes.
Norman Bates just questioned about his mother! That's a great line!!! And it fits!
It is a FACT that OBL considered us weak, particularly after we cut and run from Somalia.
If you choose not to believe his own words, then that's your privilege.
Here we back up our statements with TRUTH.
No faux photos, no faux documents, and no faux bull-oney, ala slick willie.
O'Reilly cut Clinton way too much slack. He said both Clinton and President Bush feel horrific remorse that 3000 people were killed on 9/11. There is no comparison whatsoever between what President Bush feels and what Clinton feels. Bill Clinton is regretful only in that 9/11 screwed up what he considered his wonderful legacy of peace, love, and party till you drop.
That is a well-known fact and I'm sure someone at FR can point you to the actual quote/article.
There ya go. I knew a freeper could come through.
Here is what your enemies think of you and your Countrymen... including ME! This includes bin laden's statement about Somalia and klintoons weak leadership.
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Backgrounder: How Islamist Totalitarianism Views the West
Jonathan L. Snow February 24, 2006
Context
Leaders of al-Qaeda and other terrorist movements are confident that people in the West are decadent, weak and cowardly – and ripe for defeat.
Their world view promotes the idea that America, Israel, and other Western nations are paper-tigers, unwilling to sustain a long-term war with regular casualties.
They base their view on what they see as signs of weakness and lack of resolve by the West, including American losses in Vietnam, Beirut, and Somalia, Spain's retreat from Iraq following the Madrid train bombing, and Israeli withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza.
The perception of Western weakness, as shown by the following quotations, is used by Jihadists to motivate acts of terrorism in their war against the Free World.
Osama Bin Laden on Western Weakness:
“If the U.S. still thinks and brags that it still has this kind of power even after all these successive defeats in Vietnam, Beirut, Aden, and Somalia, then let them go back to those who are awaiting its return.” – Osama Bin Laden, March 1997
“We have seen in the last decade the decline of the American government and the weakness of the American soldier who is ready to wage Cold Wars and unprepared to fight long wars. This was proven in Beirut when the Marines fled after two explosions. It also proves they can run in less than 24 hours, and this was also repeated in Somalia.” - Osama Bin Laden, May 1998
“As I said, our boys were shocked by the low morale of the American soldier and they realized that the American soldier was just a paper tiger.” - Osama Bin Laden, May 1998
“We believe that America is much weaker than Russia, and we have learned from our brothers who fought in the jihad in Somalia of the incredible weakness and cowardice of the American soldier. Not even eighty of them had been killed and they fled in total darkness in the middle of the night, unable to see a thing.” – Osama Bin Laden, December 1998
“We can conclude that America is a superpower, with enormous military strength and vast economic power, but that all this is built on foundations of straw. So it is possible to target those foundations and focus on their weakest points which, even if you strike only one-tenth of them, then the whole edifice will totter and sway, and relinquish its unjust leadership of the world.” Osama Bin Laden, February 2003
“If you started suicide attacks you will see the fear of Americans all over the world.” – Osama Bin Laden, April 2003
Other Al-Qaeda Leaders on Western Weakness:
“The Americans: These, as you know, are the most cowardly of God's creatures.” Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, February 2004
“O, American people, your government is leading you to a new losing war. U.S. people, your government was defeated in Vietnam and fled scared from Lebanon. It fled from Somalia and received a slap in Aden.” Ayman al-Zawahiri, October 2001
“The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam—and how they ran and left their agents—is noteworthy.” Ayman al-Zawahri, July 2005
“In Afghanistan, the Mujahideen triumphed over the world's second most qualitative power at that time… Similarly, a single Somali tribe humiliated America and compelled it to remove its forces from Somalia. A short time later, the Chechen Mujahideen humiliated and defeated the Russian bear. After that, the Lebanese resistance [Hezbollah] expelled the Zionist army from southern Lebanon.” Osama bin Laden aid Abu 'Ubeid Al-Qurashi, February 2002
“We think the Spanish government will not stand more than two blows, or three at the most, before it will be forced to withdraw because of the public pressure on it.” Al-Qaeda internet statement, December 2003
Palestinian Statements on Western Weakness:
“The Lebanese have supplied the entire world with an example of steadfastness and they have taught everybody the strategy of strike after strike until the enemy's defeat. What happened in Lebanon is a lesson for whoever wants to win in Palestine like [Hezbollah has won] in Lebanon.” - PA Minister of Treasury, Muhammad Zuhdi Al-Nashashibi, May 2000
“The occupation soldiers did not withdraw from South Lebanon because they got sick of the occupation. …Unless the coffins were multiplying, they would have stayed along with their agents... who flee now like terrified mice.” Editor of the PA affiliated Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Hafez Al-Barghuthi, May 2000
“All the Israeli statements about a withdrawal from Gaza Strip are due to the Palestinian resistance operations. We are completely confident that as the Hezbollah Organization managed to kick the Israeli forces out of Lebanon, the Palestinian resistance will kick them out of the Palestinian territories, and we will continue our resistance.” Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas spokesman, June 2004
“The painful and qualitative blows which the Palestinian resistance dealt to the Jews and their soldiers over the past four-and-a-half years led to the decision to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. The suicide attacks and the [booby-trapped] underground tunnels have taken their tolls on the Jews, both psychologically and economically, in addition to the high number of casualties. … The withdrawal marks the end of the Zionist dream and is a sign of the moral and psychological decline of the Jewish state.” Ahmed al-Bahar, a top Hamas leader in Gaza, March 2005
“Very simply, nobody can deny that if Israel is going to leave the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, that was because of the intifada, because of the armed struggle, because of the big sacrifices of Hamas for this goal. It was not because of negotiations, or the goodwill of Israel, or the Americans or Europeans.” Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas's senior leader in Gaza, April 2005
“Hamas sees in the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza Strip a national achievement by the Palestinian people. It is the fruit of the resistance and steadfastness of the Palestinian people.” Ismail Haniya, a Hamas leader in Gaza, July 2005
Other Militant Views on The West:
“I hold this view by looking at the geography and nature of American society into account. Yours is a society which cannot accept 10,000 dead in one battle.” Saddam Hussein, July 1990
“Israel, which has both nuclear power and the strongest air force in the region, is weaker than a spider's web.” Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, June 2000
“I ask you… You can make yourself heard by the commander of the American forces in the region, who is of Lebanese origin, John Abizaid – Are you Lebanese afraid of the American naval fleets? These naval fleets have come in the past, and were defeated, and if they come again, they will be defeated again. I say to the Americans: 'Don't interfere in our internal affairs” Hassan Nasrallah, March 2005
Feel safe?
LLS
O'reilley was blabbering about what a great president clinton was and how Bush made the same mistakes, etc, etc.
It took me a couple of minutes to realize o'reilley was making a pathetic attempt to land an interview eith clinton, until bill practically looked into the camera and beeged clinton to come on his show. Remember the way o'reilley kissed kerry's butt when he was trying to get an interview? After kerry dissed him, o'reilley stopped sucking up so much.
There was an interview with bin laden where he said exactly that. You might want to educate yourself a little during your first week here.
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