Hillary: Bush Summoned Bill on 9/11

NewsMax ^ | 9/11/02 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that President Bush summoned her husband, ex-president Bill Clinton, back to the United States in the hours after 9/11, contradicting the version of events offered by Mr. Clinton last year.

"My husband was in Australia and the president called him back and sent a plane for him," Mrs. Clinton told National Public Radio's Tavis Smiley in an interview commemorating the 9/11 attacks.

Clinton made the claim that Bush summoned her husband while describing concerns about the welfare of her family in the aftermath of the World Trade Center catastrophe.

"In my own family, you may recall that my daughter was in lower Manhattan on the morning of Sept. 11," she told Smiley. "It took hours to make contact with her and thankfully we were able to make sure she was OK."

Then Mrs. Clinton made the comment suggesting that the Bush White House had summoned her husband back to the U.S. from his Australian speaking tour.

But in an interview last year, Mr. Clinton indicated that the Bush White House sent a military plane for him as a courtesy, not because he was being "called back."

"The Bush administration was kind enough to give me a plane," he told NBC's Tom Brokaw a week after the attacks. "I thought I should be back in America and back in New York. And they provided me a plane. ... And I was glad to be back home with our people here and to do what I could to encourage people in the recovery efforts."

Mrs. Clinton told Smiley that on 9/11 last year, she felt she "had an obligation as a senator from New York to reach the White House," but she did not say whether the contact had anything to do with the Bush administration's decision to retrieve her husband.

[Vidalia]

OK what's the dollar value of the new targets being printed with

a)Bill Clinton
b)OJ
c)bin Ladiney the Weeney

[marvlus]

So, one of them is stretching the truth, which is no surprise!! However, what is the point of this story, can some enlighten me?

[NorCoGOP]

It's all about me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me

bump

[Utopia]

I see this is as a distinction without a difference. Read this line: "My husband was in Australia and the president called him back and sent a plane for him," It doesn't say: summoned it says: called him back What does that mean? Who knows? Probably Clinton had a call into Bush, which Bush returned, hence, called him back

We all know that all planes were grounded. Clinton was stranded in Auz. Bush did offer a military transport. I don't read summoned into this story at all.

[Doohickey]

I would imagine that among the President's duties is to ensure the welfare and security of ALL the living former Presidents and their families. Apparently this includes impeached former philanderers-in-chief.

[EggsAckley]

World Trade Center catastrophe.

That word is a give-away as to the writer's agenda. An earthquake is a catastrophe. A hurricane is a catastrophe. A flood is a catastrophe.

[NativeNewYorker]

Chelsea said she was crashing at a friend's place MILES north of Ground Zero.

What kind of psychosis drives people to climb onto the largest stage in the history of the world, and lie repeatedly?

[mass55th]

"So, one of them is stretching the truth..."

Hildebeast was caught in a lie when she told the press that Chelsea had been jogging down around the WTC that very morning before the attacks. But then in the article Chelsea wrote for Tina Brown, she states she was in a friends apartment when she saw the coverage on TV.

[Rockiesrider]

Enough about me, lets talk about you...So, what you thinK about me?

[breakem]

She's seems to be retracting the lie incrementally. Next she'll say she was north of Houston then 29th Ave and creeping north until she gets it right somethime before the 2008 election.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" What kind of psychosis drives people to climb onto the largest stage in the history of the world, and lie repeatedly?


With the enormous amount of ceremonies today-all I could think,was clinton must be somewhere tearing his dyed gray hair out,that he was not involved in any of them. Whoops-just saw that he will be on Letterman tonight- what a shameless dirtbag.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

That was the first thing that came to my mind, it was the simple gall to spin lie about it. The entire enigma has always been related to her husband and we've got her here on front stage doing the very same.

[NativeNewYorker]

DIRT-exPOTUS will be on LETTERMAN? Tonight?

Top 10 reasons to THANK G-D the Sinkmaster(tm) isn't still in the White House...

[f.Christian]

They said it became personal...

when some judge they knew died in the tower crash---

taken literally this is the most psychopathic thing I almost ever heard!

[genew]

called him back is the part that's not the truth...the lie

The rhetoric of these marxists has become transparent.

[Jaidyn]

Your post is exactly right! Why in the world would Bush want or even need the ex? He had enough problems on his hands without having to babysit the former prez. The Big Creep came back just to try and steal the show. It didn't work.

[RightOnline]

Standard Clinton mantra:

"IT'S ALL ABOUT ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!"

"OK, enough about me. What do YOU think of me????"

[RightOnline]

Damn..........should have read further down first. Great minds, etc. :)

[meyer]

"In my own family, you may recall that my daughter was in lower Manhattan on the morning of Sept. 11," she told Smiley. "It took hours to make contact with her and thankfully we were able to make sure she was OK."

I have my doubts that "it took hours to make contact" since Chelsea, if I'm not mistaken, still travels with SS agents. Correct me if I'm wrong about that, but I would think she'd be easy to find (there are other reasons she'd be easy to find, but I'm sometimes a nice guy so I'll keep quiet. but she does "stand out" in a crowd!).