Brokaw: Bush, GOP Deserve as Much Blame as Clinton for Terror Attacks

NewsMax | Wednesday Sept. 19, 2001 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[truther]

Brokaw: Bush, GOP Deserve as Much Blame as Clinton for Terror Attacks

"NBC Nightly News" anchorman Tom Brokaw sought to deflect criticism of ex-President Clinton Wednesday morning in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks, saying that President Bush and the GOP also deserve blame for not making terrorism as issue during last year's presidential campaign.

"I do think that it was a failure of (the Clinton) administration not to take it on. But it wasn't a high priority of this administration either coming into office," Brokaw told radioman Don Imus.

"I mean, George W. Bush didn't make fighting terrorism a big part of his campaign at all," the anchorman complained. "You know, they were talking about reorganizing the U.S. military but we haven't heard anything about -- "We've got to secure this country against a terrorist attack.'"

Next the NBC anchor turned his ire towards Republican congressional leaders. "God knows, on Capitol Hill one expert after another, one commission after another went up there when Republicans were in charge and said, 'They're coming. We're vulnerable. We could take a terrible hit.'"

Brokaw also said the media share blame for not giving enough coverage to the attack on the U.S.S. Cole and the trial of 1993's World Trade Center bombers.

The NBC News anchor's defense of the ex-president came just hours after his own interview with Clinton, who blamed the CIA for implementing restrictions on spy recruitment that experts now say helped the Twin Tower terrorists conceal their plans.

[newzjunkey]

You mean to say EIGHT months.

[stillafreemind]

Thank you for the post and for the email addy. I was so damned mad when I read it that I sat right down and wrote him a scathing letter. This crap has got to stop and I am willing to put my two cents towards it!

Thanks again!

[FreeLibertarian]

George W. Bush has decided that last week's atrocities were the last straw.

The citizens of the United States of America have decided that last week's atrocities were the last straw. George W. Bush is doing the job we require, if he doesn't follow thru his sucessor will, until the job is done.

[yoswif]

Mr. Brokaw: If we had a free press, this trajedy would not have happened. The incubators of terrorists are economies destroyed by socialist central governments, socialism, and socialist policies. Name one Islamic fundamentalist or member of the establisment press who is a principled opponent of socialist central governments, socialism, and socialist policies. Name one Islamic fundamentalist or member or the establishment press who is a principled supporter of individual liberty, private property rights, and free market economic policies. Radical Islam has as much tolerance for individual liberty, private property rights, and free market economic policies as the establishment press.

The only way to insure a free press and honest government is to finance at least 50% of all federal and state spending with an excise tax on advertising.