RUSH: The Drive-Bys on 9/11 today want to know, they are demanding to know, why we do not have Usama Bin Laden?
VIEIRA: Good Morning, breaking news. Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden appears in a new video this morning on the sixth anniversary of 9/11.
MUIR: Osama Bin Laden is out with a new tape on this September 11th.
CHETRY: Today, Osama Bin Laden released another tape.
ORR: In a new tape out this morning, the voice of Osama Bin Laden can be heard over a searing graphic of ground zero.
RUSH: And they went on to discuss and have guests on, ‘Why do we not have Usama Bin Laden?’ Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to give you the answer why we do not have Usama Bin Laden. For those of you obsessed with why he’s still free, if he’s still breathing, let’s go back to February of 2002. This is former President Clinton. I believe this is some meeting out on Long Island. This tape is Internet quality, furnished to us by our buddies at NewsMax.
CLINTON: Mr. Bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in ’91 and he went to live in the Sudan. The Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with him again. They released him. At the time, in ‘96, he had committed no crime against America, so I don’t want to 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 because they could have, but they thought it was (unintelligible) and they didn’t and that’s how he ended up in Afghanistan.
RUSH: Now, we’ve had numerous reports that the president was presented, by Sudan, Osama Bin Laden’s head on a silver platter, two or three times, and refused to take him. This is one of the drawbacks, one of the shortcomings of fighting a war with lawyers and fighting a war with the justice department. To say that Bin Laden had not been involved, for crying out loud, he was involved with hatching these flights over the Pacific, I believe, from the Philippines, that he had plans to detonate over the Pacific Ocean. Clinton did not want to deal with it, folks. If you want to know why we don’t have Bin Laden in addition to whatever shortcomings you want to blame on the administrations since 9/11, you cannot exempt errors and mistakes of the previous administration. Clinton, immediately after 9/11, for his own legacy, had to go out there and do damage control. He knew. So on September 3rd of 2002, he’s on Larry King Alive. King says, ‘Do you remember what you were thinking, Mr. President? What would go through the mind of the immediate former president watching 9/11 happen?’
CLINTON: I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, ‘My God, a second plane has hit the tower, second tower.’ And I said, ‘Bin Laden did this.’ That’s the first thing I said.
RUSH: Right, yeah.
CLINTON: 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 wouldn’t do it because they have a country and targets, Bin Laden did.’
KING: Did you also think at the same time we came pretty close to getting him?
CLINTON: Yeah. I thought that my virtual obsession with him was well-faced and I was full of regret that I didn’t get him. I mean I immediately thought that he had done it.
RUSH: Bill Clinton describing his virtual obsession. Can we go back and play audio sound bite number six again? This is from February of 2002. The Larry King show bite was September of 2002, so, what, seven or eight months prior. Before telling Larry King, ‘I had this virtual obsession. I thought my virtual obsession with him was well-faced. I was full of regret I didn’t get him.’ Really, full of regret? Let’s listen again.
CLINTON: Mr. Bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in ’91 and he went to live in the Sudan. The Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with him again. They released him. At the time, in ‘96, he had committed no crime against America, so I don’t want to 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 because they could have, but they thought it was (unintelligible) and they didn’t and that’s how he ended up in Afghanistan.
RUSH: That’s not entirely how he ended up in Afghanistan. He ended up in Afghanistan because Afghanistan had been taken over by the Taliban. They were a stateless regime, which is exactly what Al-Qaeda attempts to do, is take over stateless regimes and run them. So it’s seven or eight months later that Clinton’s gotta do damage control. ‘I had this virtual obsession. My virtual obsession with Bin Laden was well-faced, but I was full of regret, I didn’t get him. I immediately thought he did it. I knew he had done it, I knew.’ Really. It’s all about the Clintons, and it always will be about the Clintons.