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he timing of
the Foley revelations is a bit odd. If the
intended beneficiary of the political dirty
trick was the Democrats, surely the perpetrators
would have sprung it closer to Election Day. A
month is an eternity in politics (irrespective
of the fact that it is the pundit class'
favorite hedge).
TEMPUS
ACTUM
If not the
Democrats then who? Who benefits from the odd
timing? And who has the means, the motive, the
opportunity--and the m.o.--
1,
2
to
pull off this dirty trick?
WHO
BENEFITS?
The
clintons had been hemorrhaging ever since the
first week in September when the husband, by
attempting to quash the ABC movie, "The Path to
9/11," managed to accomplish in mere days what
his opponents failed for years to effectuate,
namely, to focus the electorate simultaneously
on the clinton jackboot 3,
4
and on the clinton failure to confront
terrorism. 5
If the
story had legs, continued clinton stupidity and
arrogance made them sprint. And as if
dispatching the tired clinton scold, the tired
clinton spinners and the tired clinton playbook
weren't enough to keep story on page one of
The New York Times above the fold,
clinton brought his tired clinton shtick to
FoxNews Sunday.
'KILL
BILL'
What the
country finally learned--fittingly on the fifth
anniversary of 9/11--was that clinton didn't
simply fail to kill bin Laden.
Clinton
refused to kill or even capture
bin Laden.
Clinton
refused to kill or even capture bin Laden
even as he pretended to go after bin
Laden.
Clinton
refused to kill or even capture bin Laden even
as he pretended to go after bin Laden because
killing or even capturing bin Laden would have
denied clinton the Nobel Peace Prize and he
couldn't let us know he valued the prize more
than keeping this country safe.
6,
7
VIRTUAL
SURREALITY
A virtual
kill of bin Laden seems apt. One should never
expect more of bill clinton. And there is a
certain symmetry, a perfect parry for clinton's
'virtual
obsession.'
9
- Hypocrisy
abounds in this Age of clinton, a
Postmodern Oz rife with
constitutional deconstruction and
semantic subversion, a virtual
surreality polymarked by
presidential alleles peccantly
misplaced or, in the case of
Jefferson, posthumously
misappropriated.
The
Other Nixon
Mia T
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With
everyone beginning to understand the dynamics of
the clinton failure to fight terrorism,
8
prospects
appeared even bleaker for the quondam shoo-in
and for her husband's legacy, to which said
prospects are inextricably bound.
As long as
the voters believe the clintons willfully failed
to kill or even capture bin Laden--and worse,
that they did so for reasons of
self-aggrandizement--there can be no scenario in
which they recapture the White House.
Hence,
bill clinton's 'virtual
kill'
on Fox Sunday morning.
Although
"kill him" must have polled really, really well,
the interview didn't help the clintons; the
story remained on page one... and the
hemorrhaging continued...
That is,
until the Foley scandal hit the fan....

VIRTUAL
KILL
THE
CHRIS WALLACE-BILL CLINTON INTERVIEW
DECONSTRUCTED
by
Mia T, 9.27.06
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"Mr.
bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was
expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and
he went to the Sudan.
We'd
been hearing that the Sudanese wanted
America to start dealing with them
again. They released him [bin
Laden].
At
the time, '96, he had committed no
crime against America, so
I
did not bring him
here
because we had no basis on which to
hold him, though
we knew he wanted to commit crimes
against
America.
So
I pleaded with the Saudis to take him,
'cause they could have; but they
thought it was a hot potato. They
didn't and that's how he wound up in
Afghanistan."
bill
clinton
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002
Clinton
Reveals on Secret Audio:
I Nixed Bin Laden Extradition
Offer
"I
remember exactly what happened. Bruce
Lindsey said to me on the phone, 'My
God, a second plane has hit the tower.'
And I said, 'Bin Laden did this.'
that's the first thing I said. He said,
'How can you be sure?' I said 'Because
only bin Laden and the Iranians could
set up the network to do this and they
[the Iranians] wouldn't do it
because they have a country in targets.
Bin
Laden did
it.'
I
thought that
my
virtual
obsession
2
with him was well placed and I was full
of regret that I didn't get
him."
bill
clinton
Sunday, Sept 3, 2002
Larry King Live
- "You
know...
the
job which we should have done
1...
which should have been our primary
focus, to find [you know]
bin Laden and eliminate al
Qaeda."
hillary
clinton
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006
Chitchat with Jane Pauley
San Francisco, CA
"In
this interdependent world, we should
still have a preference for peace over
war....
But
sometimes we would have these debates
where people would say, if I didn't
take some military action this very
day, people would look down their nose
at America and think we were
weak. And I always thought of
Senator
Fulbright.... 6
So
anytime somebody said in my presence,
'Hey, if you don't do this, people will
think you're weak,'
I
always asked the same question for
eight years, 'Can we kill 'em
tomorrow?'
I
don't think we can bring 'em back
tomorrow, but can we kill 'em
tomorrow? If we can kill them
tomorrow, then we're not weak....
1
I
learned that as a 20-year-old kid
watching Bill Fulbright.
Listening."
bill
clinton
Fulbright Prize address
April 12, 2006
The
president seems to be able, the former
president seems to be able to deny
facts with impunity.
Bin
Laden is alive today because Mr.
Clinton, Mr. Sandy Berger, and Mr.
Richard Clarke refused to kill
him.
That's the bottom line. And every time
he says what he said to Chris Wallace
on Fox, he defames the CIA especially,
and the men and women who risk their
lives to give his administration
repeated chances to kill bin Laden."
...
[T]he fact of the matter is
that the Bush Administration had one
chance that they botched, and
the
Clinton Administration had eight to ten
chances that they refused to
try.
At least at Tora Bora our forces were
on the ground. We didn't push the
point. But
it's just, it's an incredible kind of
situation for the American people over
the weekend to hear their former
president mislead
them."
Michael
Scheuer
CBS Terror Expert, Iraq War
Critic
former CIA head for hunting Bin
Laden
Monday CBS Early
Show
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isn't that they can't
see the solution. It is
that they can't see the
problem.
G.
K.
Chesterton
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...
While America appears not to be ready
for a female president under any
circumstances, the post-9/11 realities
pose special problems for a female
presidential candidate. Add to these
the problems unique to missus clinton.
The reviews make the mistake of
focusing on the problems of the generic
female presidential candidate running
during ordinary times.
These
are not ordinary times. America is
waging the global War on Terror; the
uncharted territory of asymmetric
netherworlds is the battlefield; the
enemy is brutal, subhuman; the threat
of global
conflagration
is real.
Defeating
the enemy isn't sufficient. For America
to prevail, she must also defeat a
retrograde, misogynous mindset. To
successfully prosecute the War on
Terror, it is essential that the
collective patriarchal islamic culture
perceives America as politically and
militarily strong. Condi Rice excepted,
this requirement presents an
insurmountable hurdle for any female
presidential candidate, and especially
missus clinton,
historically
antimilitary--(an image,
incidentally, that is only enhanced
today by her clumsy, termagant parody
of Thatcher), forever
the pitiful
victim,
and, according to Dick Morris, "the
biggest dove in the clinton
administration."
It
is ironic that had the clintons not failed
utterly to fight
terrorism... not failed to take bin Laden from
Sudan... not
failed repeatedly to decapitate a
nascent, still stoppable al
Qaeda...
the generic female president as a
construct would still be viable...
missus clinton's obstacles would be
limited largely to standard-issue
clintonisms: corruption, abuse,
malpractice, malfeasance, megalomania,
rape and treason... and, in spite of Juanita
Broaddrick,
or perhaps because of her, Rod Lurie
would be reduced to perversely hawking
the "First Gentleman" instead of the
"Commander-in-Chief."
Mia
T, 10.02.05
HILLARY'S
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
PROBLEM
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