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To: combjelly who wrote (304311)	9/25/2006 10:36:55 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (4) of 1572529

THE CLINTON INTERVIEW Well, you gotta admit .. that was a pretty intense Chris Wallace interview of Bill Clinton last night [video] on Fox News Sunday. Bill Clinton obviously doesn't particularly like being criticized for his failure to pursue Osama bin Laden. The interview, the first Clinton has ever given to the Fox News Channel, started out innocently enough...with Wallace asking the smiling Clinton about his initiatives to save lives around the world and so forth. So then Wallace asks a question that viewers had e-mailed in. Why didn't Clinton do more to connect the dots and put Al-Qaeda out of business. This is where Clinton erupted --- immediately going on the defensive. He says he did more to kill Osama Bin Laden than the Bush Administration did in the first 8 months it was in office. He's upset that the Bush Administration is never criticized for that. Of course, the Bush Administration had 8 months....the Clinton Administration had 8 years. In his response to Wallace's question Clinton relied strongly on the statements of Richard Clark, Clinton's chief anti-terrorist operative during his presidency. But after the interview Fox News did some more research into Richard Clark and found that his assessment of Clinton's efforts was not all that positive. In a 2004 CNN interview Richard Clark spoke of one particular Clinton attempt to "get" Osama bin Laden. "Clinton bombed them once; the public reaction was negative to that. Remember 'wag the dog?' Everyone said Clinton is just bombing Afghanistan to divert attention from the Monica business. And so he didn't bomb them again." Well .. that doesn't make it look as if Clinton was quite as dedicated to the idea of killing Osama bin Laden as he would have had us believe, does it? Fox News also restated one of the findings of the 9/11 Commission report says where it was stated that in December of 1999 Richard Clark sent Clinton a memo urging an attack on Al Qaeda basis before the millennium. Sandy Berger wrote on the memo "No." Wow -- that sure does show a dedication to get bin Laden, doesn't it? My feeling is that this whole "lose your temper" bit is going to backfire on Clinton. His "I tried" stuff is going to cause people to look at his record anew. That's probably not something he will welcome. boortz.com

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