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To: combjelly who wrote (304307)	9/25/2006 10:26:51 AM
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No Bill will In his crabby interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace yesterday, former President Bill Clinton "based nearly his entire defense on one source: 'Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror,' the book by former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke," said Byron York at National Review Online. Mr. Clinton mentioned Mr. Clarke 11 times during the interview. "But Clarke's book does not, in fact, support Clinton's claim. Judging by Clarke's sympathetic account -- as well as by the sympathetic accounts of other former Clinton aides like Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon -- it's not quite accurate to say that Clinton tried to kill [Osama] bin Laden. Rather, he tried to convince -- as opposed to, say, order -- U.S. military and intelligence agencies to kill bin Laden. And when, on a number of occasions, those agencies refused to act, Clinton, the commander-in-chief, gave up," Mr. York writes. He questions the book's premise that it was Mr. Clinton's planningthat readied U.S. response for future terrorist attacks. "The bottom line is that Bill Clinton, the commander-in-chief, could not find the will to order the military into action against al Qaeda, and Bill Clinton, the head of the executive branch, could not find the will to order the CIA and FBI to act. No matter what the former president says on Fox, or anywhere else, that is his legacy in the war on terror."