Bill Clinton spent a lot of time in the interview with Chris Wallace touting Richard Clarke as the terrorism guru. If we’re to take Richard Clarke at his word, then we should probably also believe him when he made the Iraq/al-Qaida connection, in defense of Bill Clinton’s bombing of the pharamceutical plant in Khartoum:

Clarke did provide new information in defense of Clinton’s decision to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, in retaliation for bin Laden’s role in the Aug. 7 embassy bombings.

While U.S. intelligence officials disclosed shortly after the missile attack that they had obtained a soil sample from the El Shifa site that contained a precursor of VX nerve gas, Clarke said that the U.S. government is “sure” that Iraqi nerve gas experts actually produced a powdered VX-like substance at the plant that, when mixed with bleach and water, would have become fully active VX nerve gas.

Clarke said U.S. intelligence does not know how much of the substance was produced at El Shifa or what happened to it. But he said that intelligence exists linking bin Laden to El Shifa’s current and past operators, the Iraqi nerve gas experts and the National Islamic Front in Sudan.

Given the evidence presented to the White House before the airstrike, Clarke said, the president “would have been derelict in his duties if he didn’t blow up the facility.”

If we’re to believe everything Richard Clarke says with respect to terrorism, then we must believe that a link existed in 1999 between Iraq and al-Qaida.

Is Bill Clinton ready to make that assertion and provide a significant justification to the war in Iraq?

What do you think?

1. Surely you do not expect old Bill I-did-not-have-sex-with-that-woman Clinton to do anything other than self gratify. I wish he would expend even half as much energy promoting the protection of the US as he does protecting his legacy.

   Comment by Old Soldier — 5:20 pm
   

2. You asked “What do you think?” I think not!

   LOL! Old Soldier’s got me to where I cannot even think of Clinton without thinking of him as “Bill I-did-not-have-sex-with-that-woman Clinton!”

   Comment by Gayle — 6:41 pm
   

3. Old Bill came unglued when Chris Wallace asked him why he didn’t do more against the terrorists a.k.a. Osama Bin Laden. It was a pretty sight, what an egotistical buffoon.

   Comment by Judith — 8:52 pm
   

4. I think I just heard Bill Clinton slurred in response to that.

   Comment by mcconnell — 9:03 pm
   

5. Keep smiling and patting yourselves on the back. We’re on our way to bankrupting America and turning the entire world against us.

   “Oh sure, the economy is growing so nicely you say”

   …more so on borrowed money these days (mmm.. unsustainable growth comes to mind)

   The Great British Empire suffered the same fate of walking too proudly on this earth and if we do not learn the lessons of history, the same fate will happen to us.

   I thought good fiscal policy was a Republican trademark! So much for that idea. You can praise your tax cuts as much as you’d like, but our outflows are growing out of control. When the global recession hits maybe you’ll think twice. Honestly, I don’t think tax cuts are a bad idea. Unfortunately, when you spend more at the same time the debt will eventually come back on our children.

   …and get over Bill Clinton already. It really is pathetic that you people decide to attack a man’s personal life when it had nothing to do with the wonderful job he did in office.

   here’s to Hillary in 2008…

   Comment by Stephen — 2:05 pm
   

6. Stephen,
   What he did in the Oval Office was the business of the American people… not “private life”.

   And “we’re turning the world against us”? Really? So there weren’t any terrorist threats or attacks against our interests before Bush came to office? Interesting.

   We agree on cutting spending, but if you think Democrats would do any better, you’re either ignorant of history or economics.

   And I love how you claim Clinton did a wonderful job in office while simultaneously bashing Bush. What was Clinton’s wonderful job? Was it a business climate built on unprosecuted corporate fraud? Was it a stock market built on a highly volatile paradigm shift in business brought on by new technology? Or was it his skill at raising taxes? Was it not responding to terrorism until he needed to shift the focus off his own transgressions? Exactly which part of his job was so wonderful?

   His house of cards came crashing down the moment he locked the door and left the White House. That’s why he and his cronies are so red-faced now trying to rehabilitate his failed administration.

   Comment by Texas Rainmaker — 2:16 pm
   

7. What does your argument prove? That the Iraq War is all President Clinton’s fault? Obviously not true. Bashing President Clinton for something he did not do gets us nowhere and just points fingers. There are more important things to be worried about. I pity you and your narrow-minded friends.

   Comment by mmmarmar — 4:49 pm
   

8. “What does your argument prove? That the Iraq War is all President Clinton’s fault?”

   Did you just pull that out of your butt? Exactly where did I blame him for the Iraq war? I only wish I could blame (actually praise) him for the Iraq war. Maybe if he’d taken threats seriously during his administration, we’d be in a better position today. I mean, afterall, he kept telling us what a threat Saddam posed…

   Comment by Texas Rainmaker — 4:58 pm
   

9. And here’s a Lib talking about learning the great lessons of history. What an oxymoron and I do mean moron.

   Comment by Judith — 8:25 pm
   

10. When confronted with a substantive argument that shows Clinton’s performance in the Fox interview was hollow, misleading, and intemperate (to say the least), his cheerleaders change the subject.

    http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=13&t=002188

    Comment by Chairm — 7:09 pm
    

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