Clinton Gets Angry At Accusations He Didn’t Try To Catch Osama

Posted on September 22, 2006

‘At least I tried. That’s the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed’…

Ace goes off:

The man simply lies. It is a breathtakingly stupid and mendacious claim that rightwingers, as he calls us, actually opposed his weak single effort to get bin Ladin. Throughout the late nineties, I was apopleptic we weren’t doing anything at all about bin Ladin. We wanted more action. Not less.

The pretext for this lie is that rightwingers, myself included, did in fact “question the timing” of his one attempt to kill bin Ladin. It occurred, coincidentally enough, during the Lewinsky furor. On the eve of some testimony; can’t remember which, and it really doesn’t matter.

Conservatives did not object to this attack. We were enraged, however, that the man refused to attack bin Ladin at all until he was motivated to action by a threat to his own political safety. We were not angry he’d attacked bin Ladin; we were angry he hadn’t attacked bin Ladin before (or after, actually; anyone remember a subsequent attack?).

We were angry that the man had let bin Ladin attack us with impunity for years until he saw it as a good move politically to finally launch a poorly-timed cruise missile at bin Ladin. He was animated to action not to save American lives, but to save his own f@**!^& political life.

Captain Ed says blaming solves nothing.

More to the point, it divides the nation for no purpose, and five years after 9/11, it’s time we stopped allowing it.

Hot Air has video too.

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2 Responses to “Clinton Gets Angry At Accusations He Didn’t Try To Catch Osama”

kerwin_brown on September 23rd, 2006 3:51 am

If I remember correctly, Republicans criticized Clinton for taking military action. It is not abnormal for each side to criticize the other for doing the same thing they would do. The problem Clinton faced and any other Democrat will face is the large number of pacifist that are in the party.
philwynk on September 23rd, 2006 2:19 pm

Republicans did not criticize Clinton FOR TAKING MILITARY ACTION. That’s completely wrong. Republicans criticized Clinton for taking military action ON THE DAY MONICA LEWINSKY TESTIFIED, WITHOUT SUFFICIENT INTELLIGENCE. It was clearly a politically-timed event, not a genuine attempt to nail bin Laden.

A sincere attempt to nail the SOB would have been greeted with sincere approval by Republicans.