Monday, August 27, 2007

Another Smear/Lie On Bill Clinton Is Circulating

by Dave Johnson / HuffPost

In 1998 President Clinton launched a major attack on al Queda and tried to kill Osama bin Laden:

The United States launched cruise missile strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan yesterday against centres allegedly linked with the terrorist bombings of two American embassies.

At the time the right mocked him for it, claiming he was"wagging the dog" and "bombing an asprin factory" - a chemical plant that belonged to Osama bin Laden.

And just how many cruise missiles were launched at bin Laden in Afghanistan?

About 75 cruise missiles landed in Afghanistan at Bin Laden's camps around Khost and Jalalabad. The Khost camp, Zawhar Kili, was the scene of a meeting of "senior leaders of Islamic militant and terrorist groups linked to bin Laden," and was regarded by Pakistani intelligence as a "summit" convened by bin Laden.

75 cruise missiles launched directly at al Queda camps in Afghanistan. 75 cruise missiles!

Today Newsweek has a craftily-worded story that the right is using to smear former President Bill Clinton, saying he lied about trying to get bin Laden.

Want to feel some righteous indignation? Read the rest ...



You have to hand it to them. They're consistent and they're relentless. They've dug themselves a hole and, rather than accept the blame for putting the country in an untenable situation, they look for ways to "blame Bill"! Their sense of "taking personal responsibility" that they tout so proudly, only applies to the other fella in the end.

I remember those cruise missiles, the "aspirin factory" and all the hearty choruses of "wag the dog" sung so loudly on the right side of the aisle. I remember the accusations that Clinton was trying to distract the nation from the "real" and "important" issue ... a friggin' blow job! Now they've taken us hip deep into the big muddy. They've taken us into Iraq, a country that had NOTHING WHAT-SO-EVER to do with 9/11. They took their eye off the ball when they pulled troops from Afghanistan to bolster an adventure in a more target rich neighborhood - calculating that bombing people barely out of the stone age back into the stone age didn't make good television. They let bed Linen escape at Tora Bora because, they said, he just wasn't that important.

And now that they've screwed up everything ... literally everything, from international affairs to domestic issues ... the people who vilified Clinton for trying to do something about the terrorist threat, who controlled Congress at the time and worked overtime to block any actions against bed Linen ... now step forward with a straight face and vilify Clinton for NOT DOING ENOUGH? And then they REWRITE HISTORY, leaving out some very important details, as they try to blame someone else for the mess they've brought down upon us?

If I'd ever voted for these people I would hide my face in shame! If I were honest and sincere I would ... if I really cared about "fair and balanced", that is ... if facts mattered to me more than ideology ... if I were honest and honorable, that is, rather than being just like them ... caring more about my party and its ideology than I care about my country.

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