Bill Clinton’s Fox News Channel Interview
September 25, 2006 
On Fox News Sunday, former President Bill Clinton schooled interviewer Chris Wallace and reprimanded Fox News Channel for its lopsided coverage when Wallace asked him the following:
“While you were president, why didn’t you do more to put Bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business?”
Luckily, Clinton is too clever to fall for such a loaded question. Watch and enjoy:
So when can we expect President Bush to sit down for an interview with CNN or MSNBC about what his administration did to capture Osama bin Laden leading up to 9/11?
Some quotes from the interview:
“I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since. And if I were still president, we’d have more than 20,000 troops there [in Afghanistan] trying to kill him.” […]
“We do have a government that thinks Afghanistan is one-seventh as important as Iraq.” (referring to current troop levels) […]
“So you did Fox’s bidding on this show. You did your nice little conservative hit job on me. I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked this question of? And you’ve got that little smirk on your face and you think you’re so clever. But I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it.” […]
“But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed, I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clark, who got demoted.
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