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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (407582)	5/20/2003 8:21:28 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Kerry seems very short on substance and long on saying & doing anything for popularity.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (407582)	5/20/2003 8:24:39 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Sidney Blumenthal Stumped by Clinton's Bin Laden Confession Former White House aide Sidney Blumenthal was grilled on Monday about Bill Clinton's confession last year that the government of Sudan offered his administration a deal for Osama bin Laden's extradition - but the former White House aide couldn't come up with a coherent explanation. Asked by nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity about allegations that Clinton turned down three separate offers for bin Laden's extradition, Blumenthal responded, "I know that the National Security Council and the State Department believed that is disinformation from the Sudanese." The Clinton spinmeister, who was on hand to talk about his new book "The Clinton Wars," described Sudan as "a terrorist state" and accused its leaders of fabricating the bin Laden extradition story to "get in good with the Bush administration." But moments later, Hannity confronted the former White House aide with a transcript of Clinton's bin Laden confession, based on an exclusive recording of the ex-president's remarks to a Long Island, New York business group in February 2002. "Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan," Clinton told the group. "And we'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start meeting with them again. "They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America." Before Blumenthal responded, Hannity noted that Clinton's remarks proved "he knew the offer was there. You're denying the offer exists. Clinton's acknowledging the offer exists." Still, Blumenthal continued to deny such an offer ever took place, despite his boss's clear declaration to the contrary. "I know what I was told by the National Security Council and the State Department about the Sudanese being very bad actors, and about running disinformation campaigns about what they were doing," he told Hannity. Continuing the non-sequitur, Blumenthal added, "And I would be extremely skeptical about a former terrorist state that harbored Osama bin Laden, and what they're saying now in trying to get well with the Bush administration."