The Avoidance Of Any Responsibility
The Ace is positively livid over an interview that Bill Clinton has given to Fox News Sunday that will air on Sunday. Frankly, I can see why he is so angry when you look at the snippet of video that Hot Air has posted. Quite frankly, Clinton makes the case against himself for not trying to get bin Laden in even that brief snippet. He sounds like a spoiled child, saying he "tried to get bin Laden - once in eight years - while he says the Bush administration didn't even try at all in the eight whole freaking months of a new administration.
As the Ace says, wow.
The man simply lies. It is a breathtakingly stupid and mendacious claim that rightwingers, as he calls us, actually opposed his weak single effort to get bin Ladin. Throughout the late nineties, I was apopleptic we weren't doing anything at all about bin Ladin. We wanted more action. Not less.
The pretext for this lie is that rightwingers, myself included, did in fact "question the timing" of his one attempt to kill bin Ladin. It occurred, coindentally enough, during the Lewinsky furor. On the eve of some testimony; can't remember which, and it really doesn't matter.
Conservatives did not object to this attack. We were enraged, however, that the man refused to attack bin Ladin at all until he was motivated to action by a threat to his own political safety. We were not angry he'd attacked bin Ladin; we were angry he hadn't attacked bin Ladin before (or after, actually; anyone remember a subsequent attack?).
We were angry that the man had let bin Ladin attack us with impunity for years until he saw it as a good move politically to finally launch a poorly-timed cruise missile at bin Ladin. He was animated to action not to save American lives, but to save his own fucking political life.
We strongly suspected he had any number of chances to kill bin Ladin before this. It turns out we were one-hundred percent right:
I have disliked Clinton for a long, long time for a lot of things, including his failure to do anything substantive against the Islamist terrorists. What is almost funny, in a sickening way, is that we are literally seeing the man unravel. First the almost foaming at the mouth attacks on The Path to 9/11 and now this. It is falling apart around him; his legacy diminishes almost daily. More and more people are paying attention to his failures. He knows it, and he is melting down under the strain.
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By Watcher, Monday, 25 September , 2006 @ 11:54 am
Shame on Wallace…you got exactly what you deserved. Clinton is not with blame BUT This current administration is in charge and has been for many years. Clinton shows the contrast in wit and intellectual reasoning between those that hate and those that think. Bush find Osama - and put your clinton hater back in their kennels. We the people are tired and we are WATCHING!!