Inside the Beltway: Don't blame Bubba, Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright says

Washington Times ^ | Monday, October 29, 2001 | John McCaslin

[11B3]

"Intelligence deficit"

You know, I thought that for the entire 8 painful years.

How about maybe "Intern Surplus", or the white powder scare in Mena while you're at it. Maddie would've been the perfect mate for Reno - adds new meaning to the term "Bumping Uglies". Eeeeeewwww.

[Skooz]

I cannot tell you how glad I am that this absurd little incompetent kindergarten teacher is no longer our Secretary of State.

[aristeides]

There's a new Cover Clinton's A** story in this morning's Washington Post: Diplomats Met With Taliban on Bin Laden . It's a story that on the surface appears to say more about the Clinton administration attempting to get bin Laden, and only failing because it made the same policy blunders that the new Bush administration has continued to make.

But, if you read the story carefully, it's really damning. Neither the Clinton administration nor Saudi Arabia really wanted to get bin Laden, so they purposefully turned a deaf ear to Taliban attempts to get rid of him. To the extent that the Bush administration continued this policy, there are any number of exonerating explanations. In any case, the Bush administration has not been guilty of anything like Clinton's bombing of the aspirin factory and bin Laden's camps in August 1998, which I believe was really intended to save Clinton's a** and preserve bin Laden. Bombing the aspirin factory made it impossible for the FBI to question the bin Laden lieutenants the Sudan was holding on suspicion of involvement in the embassy bombings. Bombing bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan derailed the attempts the Taliban were making through negotiations to ship bin Laden to Saudi Arabia.

[a history buff]

Alltrite rings truer than halfbright.

[Piquaboy]

Ship that fat pig over to Afganistan to terrorize them for a change.

[backhoe]

I think you're right- attempted spin that's actually damaging. The "legacy" continues.....

[bwteim]

Don Imus also said NotSoBright looked like the head 'cleaning lady' at Red Roof Inns based on her tendency to wear a red coat.

[Semper Paratus]

Albright says the Clinton administration never had the public support it needed to root
Osama bin Laden from his terrorist training grounds in Afghanistan.

Spoken like a true leader.

[Fred Mertz]

NotatAllbright is on the O'Reilly Factor tonight in the other room. Sorry, but I didn't want to watch her.