06.18.06
Liar
Take a look back at what Bill Clinton told Dan Rather this weekend two years ago about whether the Sudanese government had offered his administration Osama bin Laden (emphases mine):
In his interview with CBS newsman Dan Rather set for broadcast on Sunday, ex-President Bill Clinton flatly contradicts his earlier recorded confession that Sudan offered to arrest Osama bin Laden and hand him over to the U.S., calling reports of such an offer “bull.”
“On the accusation that he had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden, had opportunities to have him delivered by the Sudanese, he said, ‘absolutely, flatly untrue,’ describing it as ‘bull,’” Rather tells the Washington Post on Thursday.
In February 2002, however, Mr. Clinton clearly admitted that the Sudanese offer had indeed taken place. And that he turned it down.
“Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan,” Clinton told the Long Island Association on Feb. 15, 2002.
“He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we’d been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again.“
They released him. At the time, 1996, 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 and they didn’t and that’s how he wound up in Afghanistan.”
There is no question that Clinton did make these and other remarks before the annual meeting of the Long Island Association at Woodbury, NY on 15 February 2002. (Go to the bottom of the page linked above for a downloadable link to an audio file of his remarks.)
Likewise, there is no question that Clinton believed it was in his power to bring Osama in. If that weren’t the case, then how would Clinton have even been in the position to debate the legality of bringing him here? How would he have been in the position of asking the Saudis to take Osama instead?
Bill Clinton, despite what he said to the Kean Commission, was offered Osama bin Laden. He didn’t misspeak about that.
He just lied about it.
And that’s probably why he thought it was funny that Sandy Berger got busted stealing documents from the National Archives that might have shown as much.
Don’t forget: it’s more of this kind of shit that we’ll have to contend with if the Dhimmicratic Party ever regains control of our national security.
