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September 26, 2006
Clinton Says He Left A Terror Plan For Bush....Rice Says That's A "Flatly False Claim"
Topics: Political News and commentariesRon Cass, in an opinion piece at Fox News, sums up what happened better than most by laying out the essence of the event within the context within which lies the heart of the matter, by saying that former President Bill Clinton, never one to let truth stand in the way of a good line, has decided to reincarnate himself as our tough, anti-terror president. We're reminded that this is the man who ran away from military service, not even bothering to try to get into the national guard, and "displayed striking contempt for our Armed Forces," and who has now announced that he did more -- and would do more -- to combat Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than anyone else.
Speaking to Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday, Clinton made a bevy of startlingly anti-factual remarks. He announced, for instance, that conservatives had criticized him for obsessing about bin Laden during his presidency -- rather than the truth that he was roundly condemned for doing next to nothing about this serious threat to American security.Responding to Bill Clinton's angry (albeit entertaining) interview with Chris Wallace on FoxNews Sunday, Condoleezza Rice leveled some explosive charges of her own, and hammered Clinton over some of the comments he made during the interview.
As reported in the New York Post:
In her pointed rebuttal of Clinton's inflammatory claims about the war on terror, Rice maintained the Bush White House did the best it could to defend against an attack - and expanded on the tools and intelligence it inherited.I particularly like Rice's "When are we going to stop blaming ourselves for the rise of terrorism?" comment, and can't help but envision how far we would be in defeating our enemy had the Democrats decided to join with the administration and truly help fight the war, rather than to essentially join with the enemy in fighting America."I would just suggest that you go back and read the 9/11 commission report on the efforts of the Bush administration in the eight months - things like working to get an armed Predator [drone] that actually turned out to be extraordinarily important," Rice added.
She also said Clinton's claims that Richard Clarke - the White House anti-terror guru hyped by Clinton as the country's "best guy" - had been demoted by Bush were bogus.
"Richard Clarke was the counterterrorism czar when 9/11 happened. And he left when he did not become deputy director of homeland security, some several months later," she said.
Rice noted that the world changed after 9/11.
"I would make the divide Sept. 11, 2001, when the attack on this country mobilized us to fight the war on terror in a very different way," Rice said.
Rice cited the final 9/11 commission report to substantiate her claims, while Clinton relied on Clarke's book as the basis for many of his rehashing the events leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.
"I think this is not a very fruitful discussion. We've been through it. The 9/11 commission has turned over every rock and we know exactly what they said," she added.
Transitioning to the global war on terror, an animated Rice questioned, "When are we going to stop blaming ourselves for the rise of terrorism?"
The "center-right" of the Blogosphere is critical of Clinton's posturing and distortion of the facts:
The Bullwinkle Blog says of the incident:
It is unusual for an administration to criticize a former president in this way, and vice-versa for a former president to criticize a sitting president's administration. Cranky old Jimmy Carter does it, but you would have never seen Ronald Reagan engaging in this kind of public pissing match. Clinton seems to have started a downward spiral into a cesspool of innuendo, which can only be called, well, Clintonian."Ankle-Biting Pundits" writes:Somehow I think we haven't heard the end of this.
What you see here in Condi Rice's measured arguement vs. the foam-at-the-mouth antics of Bill Clinton the other day shows why the American public has voted in the Bush Administration twice: it shows who the adults really are. Bill Clinton has no choice but to act defensive: there's litterally no positive record on terrorism for him to hang his hat on. He can talk about how he personally "worked harder on terrorism than anyone ever", but if the results are any indication, then no one ever failed harder on terrorism than he did. But since success on the left is measured by how much one intended to do and not what the results of their efforts were, then it's no wonder he and the rest of his party thinks just by asserting he was "working hard than anyone" on terrorism means he was "the best ever".As for the "Left"-side of the blogosphere, they're in the usual "Bush Derangement Syndrome"-state of denial, and respond in the usual "Bush is a liar" and it's "all America's fault" mode. They're commentary is too nausiating to even link to, since they seem to have an obsession for finding fault without offering solutions, and trying to find ways to discredit the un-disputable with facts of nuance.
Which brings me to this, call it an outreaching hand to our friends on the left.
Why not set aside our political differences for now, and instead of playing blame games - together recognize that these people - the Islamists, truly want to kill us, and that whether it be Iraq, the Pope, Danish cartoons, Somalia, Afghanistan, or the moon, they are and will continue using any and every excuse to recruit, attack, and murder their fellow Muslims who aren't jihadists, attack, and murder attack Americans and the West - because "we are not them", period. We must stop blaming ourselves for the rise in terrorism, the truth is it actually started before the 1979 Iran hostage crises, but surely began to accelerate at that time. Since then, one needs a calculator to count the acts of terrorism.Every administration makes mistakes, and no reasonable person can or should believe that Bill Clinton purposefully neglected our national security. Did he miscalculate bin-Laden threat? You bet he did - and his people, Berger and Albright surely, naively sat in the cacoon of multiculturalism and appeasement, and gave him poor advice. But the present administration has also made mistakes - everything changes in war when the enemy gets a vote - and he always does. But Bush is "our" president, not just "my" president, and America is "our" country.
So let's get past this damned stupid "he said - she-said" and recognize that we are in a real war for our survival as a civilization and a free and democratic society that is not under Islamic law - for now. If we don't engage as one voice, together, and stand behind our president, and engage the enemy rather than ourselves, there will be nothing to argue about later. Multiculturalism is killing us, the in-fighting is killing us, rampant secularism and anti-Christianity and antisimitism is killing us, and if we don't work together and the Left stop its "attack the administration" obsession - the enemy is going to kill us.
And let's not forget that Iran and Islamic fascism are the enemies of us all.lockquote>
Posted by Richard at September 26, 2006 9:03 AM
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