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Jake Tapper of ABC News follows up on dogs wagging.

…In the interview Clinton said that during the 1990s conservatives criticized him for “obsessing” over bin Laden and “they ridiculed me for trying” to kill bin Laden.
So let’s examine the record…
How many folks raised the “Wag the Dog” scenario? (The idea, nicknamed from the David Mamet movie, being that the attack was unnecessary and only to distract from the president’s troubles.)
…”I think the president did exactly the right thing,” said House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said. “By doing this we’re sending the signal there are no sanctuaries for terrorists.” Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) called the attacks “appropriate and just,” and House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) said “the American people stand united in the face of terrorism.”
The AP says: “Gingrich dismissed any possibility that Clinton may have ordered the attacks to divert attention from the scandal. Instead, he said, there was an urgent need for a reprisal following the Aug. 7 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. ‘Anyone who watched the film of the bombings, anyone who saw the coffins come home knows better than to question this timing,’ Gingrich said. ‘It was done as early as possible to send a message to terrorists across the globe that killing Americans has a cost. It has no relationship with any other activity of any kind.’

It gets worse for President Clinton’s recollection of events.
But that’s neither here nor there. A large glass of my BV Cabernet will be lifted to Jake, who seems to always be on the side of “NOT so fast”, regardless of party or PC, making him a refreshing voice in the wilderness. He does ABC great credit.

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