September 25, 2006

Sheppard Destroys Clinton's Attempt at "Hysterical Revisionism"

Over at The American Thinker, Noel Sheppard destroys Bill Clinton's attempt to rewrite history. In an interview yesterday with Chris Wallace, Clinton made the following bold assertion:

I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say that I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was obsessed with Bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neocons claimed that I was too obsessed with finding Bin Laden when they didn’t have a single meeting about Bin Laden for the nine months after I left office. All the right wingers who now say that I didn’t do enough said that I did too much.
In a devasting response, Sheppard shows that, contrary to Clinton's paranoiac assertions, the Republican leadership made a concerted effort to show solid GOP solidarity with Clinton on his 1998 missile strikes:
Newt Gingrich: "Well, I think the United States did exactly the right thing. We cannot allow a terrorist group to attack American embassies and do nothing... So this was the right thing to do."

Trent Lott: “Despite the current controversy, this Congress will vigorously support the president in full defense of America’s interests throughout the world.”

Jesse Helms: “The United States political leadership always has and always will stand united in the face of international terrorism.”

According to Sheppard, Gingrich also put out the word that those who "questioned the timing" of the missile strikes were "sick."

Nice try, Bill.

Read it all here.

Hat tip to Michelle. Brains, beauty and backbone in a single, compact package. If there was ever a better argument for cloning, I don't know what it was...

UPDATE: None of the above should be taken as a particular indictment of Clinton's approach to handling bin Laden. He certainly didn't do as much as he could have, but he was also in good company. The above should be taken as an illustration of the fact that the Dems are either blatantly lying or woefully misinformed when they claim, in an effort to justify their own poisonous rhetoric, that Republicans made it a practice of attacking Bill Clinton whenever he tried to combat terrorism.

By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at 02:09 PM | |