Earlier today I responded to the NewsMax report on Bill Clinton’s 'I would have attacked bin Laden' lie. Today Rush Limbaugh agreed by calling Clinton’s statement "BS" in his Truth Detector segment:
RUSH: The headline is really all you need to know: "Clinton: I Would Have Attacked bin Laden." Bill Clinton here, in... I guess New York magazine, got the first post-stroke interview with the former president. He was out in Chicago today at the memorial service for John Johnson, the publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines. He was escorting Mrs. Johnson to her seat in the church and you just see (Clinton impression), "I want my legacy, folks. I'm still working on my legacy," in everything he says and does. "Former President Clinton now says that he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks if only the FBI and CIA had been able to prove the Al-Qaeda mastermind was behind the attack on the USS Cole. 'I desperately wish I had been president when the FBI and the CIA finally confirmed officially bin Laden was responsible for that attack. I mean that. We could have launched an attack on Afghanistan early. I mean, I don't know if it would have prevented 9/11 but it certainly would have complicated it.' Despite his failure to launch such an attack, Clinton said that he saw the danger posed by bin Laden much more clearly than the Bush administration has." (Laughing.) I can't keep a straight face. I'm sorry. "I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did," Clinton said to New York magazine. Well, now, this is just so much BS. Where do you start with it? He did launch attacks.
He sent a missile into an empty building in Baghdad on a Saturday night, killed a janitor. He sent missiles to an ibuprofen factory in the Sudan. He sent missiles to an empty terrorist camp in Afghanistan. He did all this. (impression) "I would have taken bin Laden a lot more seriously than the Bush administration ever did, Limbaugh, because I knew." How did you know? "Well, I mean, I really didn't know because we had this wall out there, you know, I couldn't find out. If we didn't have this wall but, you know, I can't say that publicly. Everybody would know I'm responsible for that wall." That's exactly right, sir. Folks, I mean, just the sheer immaturity and childishness of this, "I was taking bin Laden more seriously than Bush was. If this would have happened on my watch, we wouldn't have been doing what we're doing right now. It would have been over with and done with if I was there because I would have taken bin Laden far more seriously." You weren't taking terrorism seriously at all in your administration, Mr. President. You were shuffling it aside, moving it aside. It was a big issue and you dealt with small issues. You were so worried about your legacy you didn't want anything going wrong. One of the reasons that the Pentagon, supposedly this Able Danger story, one of the reasons the Pentagon did not pass the information along is that nobody wanted to hear it in the Clinton administration. No one wanted to hear it, particularly after the Waco invasion. Nobody wanted to hear that there was a terrorist cell, Al-Qaeda terrorist cell on American soil because that would have required somebody to do something about it, and why did the wall exist, where did that wall come from, Mr. President?
It came from your assistant attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, who ran the place while Janet Reno was out there buffaloing people through her press conferences and stealing Elian Gonzales and sending him back to a communist hellhole. I mean, if Clinton would have launched an attack on Mrs. Gorelick, 9/11 may not have happened. If he killed bin Laden when he had the opportunity, 9/11 would not have happened. If Bill would have not treated terrorists the same as cat burglars, 9/11 wouldn't have happened. I mean, if bin Laden was such a huge threat to Bill Clinton, why didn't he mention him in his farewell address to the nation? Clinton mentions the word terrorism, but the speech is worth reading to put in context just how a big deal Clinton thought the issue of terrorism was, and you can get the speech at AmericanRhetoric.com/speeches/Clintonfarewell. According to Clinton, if you look at his farewell speech, the world was perfect as he left office. He had no clue what the hell was about to happen, and it wasn't the FBI or CIA's fault. They knew what was going on. If only Clinton would let them talk to each other about it, then we might have had some idea. How often did Clinton meet with his CIA director? He met with him twice. He met personally with George Tenet twice, folks, when Tenet was named the CIA director, seven years, Clinton met personally with him in the office twice. There was no way Clinton was going to do anything. He didn't want to know what was going on in these places. This is just comical.
