The attack by Bill Clinton and his allies on the upcoming ABC miniseries "The Path to 9/11" is "outrageous," charges former Clinton aide Dick Morris.
As NewsMax has reported, Clinton through his surrogates have demanded that ABC "correct all errors" in the docudrama or pull it from the air, charging that it is a "fictitious rewriting of history" regarding Clinton's handling of the terrorist threat.
But Morris claims that Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, and the president himself "were both responsible for failing to catch or kill Osama bin Laden on several different occasions."
Morris served Clinton as an adviser for 20 years and notably as Clinton's senior campaign strategist during his 1996 re-election.
Morris states that the evidence for this failure is documented in the 9/11 Commission's report and summarized in "Because He Could," the book about Clinton that Morris co-authored with his wife Eileen McGann.
The commission's report, released in the summer of 2004, "highlighted the weak, incompetent, hesitant, and inconsistent attempts of the Clinton administration to kill or capture Osama bin Laden," according to the book, which devotes an entire chapter to Clinton's mishandling of the threat.
"The report's account shows the president and his advisers at their worst."
One time, the United States "canceled an attempt to kidnap bin Laden out of concern that we might injure or kill him and be accused of using assassination as a policy tool," Morris told NewsMax.
"The president had yet to make a finding that it was OK to kill bin Laden. The reason he had not is that he did not yet know bin Laden's connection to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The reason he did not know that is that he did not fast-track the investigation.
"A second time, we did fire missiles but alerted the Pakistani military to our plans and they tipped off bin Laden, and he escaped."
According to the commission's report, the United States alerted Pakistan because the missiles targeting bin Laden, who was in Afghanistan, had to cross Pakistan, and U.S. officials did not want Pakistan to think the missiles came from India.
"A third time, our plans to attack by missile were canceled, partially out of chagrin over having missed him before and partially because we had just bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade by mistake and were worried about being called trigger happy," said Morris.
"The president was also concerned about civilian deaths in any such attack.
"The underlying theme of the ABC coverage, that he was distracted by impeachment, is of course true. But more so, he was gun-shy" because he was afraid conservatives would say he had launched a failed attack "in an effort to 'wag the dog' and distract people from the Monica Lewinsky affair."
Morris concluded: "His fear of such attacks on him inhibited him from acting."
The truth is the truth. You don't have to like it, and yes, it will hurt you in November.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
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I think Morris may be viewed by the usual suspects as without credibility since he defected from the Clinton camp. They'll dismiss anything he says without a second thought.
Yeah, I'm also waiting for a flood of ad hominems against Mr. Morris. The fact that he's an evil Jew and not a noble Palestinian also must be driving the socialists on the left mad.
At best, the Dems could play for a stalemate and claim the Republicans weren't serious about terror in 1998 either. But that would mean accepting that *Democrats* actually have faults and make mistakes, and nothing is more anathema to the left than that, given evil, error, and misfortune in their cosmology is only a province of Bush's.
Marshall,
For once I totally agree with you. Dick Morris has no credibility, not because he defected, but because of what he has said and written since. He is a self-promoting sleaze ball who will stop at nothing to slime the Clintons.
Jason, what is your obsession with Jews? It never occurred to me that Dick Morris is jewish. Is he? Why do you make an issue of anti-semitism where none exists?
You're joking of course, Game. You equate Clinton's lying about a blow job with the Bush administration's lies about aluminum tubes, yellow cake, Iraq ties with 9/11 and then you have the gaul to complain about comparisons of Clinton's indescretions to Morris' toe sucking.
I also find your obsession with the pubic regions curious. You can't simply state that Berger illegally removed COPIES of classified materials, you must time and time and time again remind us that he put them in his underpants. Oh and then there's the blowjob.
What's with this obsession, game?
the word underpants is funny...
much like your logic...
its fun to think about how you don't understand the meaning of a simple word such as lie...
poor Jim
When you say something that you know to be untrue, that is a lie.
Don't try to excuse Bush by saying that he didn't know what the most senior members of his administration knew. If he didn't know what they knew, then he is either incompetent or has the most disloyal group of subordinates in American history.
It was widely known throughout the administration that the aluminum tubes were regarded by EXPERTS as not viable for centrifuges. It was widely known before Cheney referred to it that the Prague "rendezvous" never happened. It was widely known throughout the administration that the the yellowcake claim was based on documents known to be forged and was counter to all evidence available at the time.
It is widely known and supported by the CIA, the 9/11 Commission Report and the Senate Intelligence Committee that there was no link between Saddam and 9/11. Bush claims that nobody in his administration has ever claimed that. Technically this may not be a lie, but in effect it is a lie because he and his administration have done everything in their power to suggest that connection.
This is undeniable since nearly half of Americans believe there WAS a connection. Where did this perception come from? The so-called liberal media?
Jim--
The Bush administration has repeatedly denied any connection between Iraq and 911. Cheney even did so again today repeatedly to Tim Russert, who like you, won't take "yes, there is no 911 Iraq connection" for an answer.
79% of the American public thinks a virgin can give birth -- is Bush responsible for that since he's a Christian? It is all a conspiracy to you people.
They repeatedly deny it now, but they have carefully crafted the tacit "message" that Saddam was connected to 9/11.
Your last paragraph, Jason, is ludicrous. There is only one source for the claim that Saddam was connected to 9/11 and it isn't the NIV Bible.
Actually Jim, if you say something that you dont know to be 100% true, you are lying. Lets not be so generous.
jay thinks sandy's illegal pants stuffing and clintons illegal lying are equal to dick's toe sucking...
another example of why our public schools are in such a mess.
WTF does what jay thinks have to do with the public schools being in a mess? Bringing up the two even in the same paragraph makes no sense whatsoever.
he's a public school teacher, the reasoning skills presented by his comments should not be taught to a child
Why? Considering he's right.
And who says he's teaching that to a kid anyway?
He put it on an adult blog, for chrissake.
I still fail to see the analogy, and most reading here would.
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