Ghost of Clinton in Bush 9/11 Speech
The ghost of Bill Clinton took center stage in President Bush's most important speech, his 9/11 address to Congress, we learn in a new book about White House ghostwriters from our own Robert Schlesinger. In White House Ghosts, he reveals to Bush and the rest of us that the prez's most memorable line was secretly suggested by a former top Clintonista and inserted without the source ever being revealed. You know the line: "Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done." How'd it get there? Bush kept on Clinton national security speechwriter John Gibson, who got it from his former boss Tom Malinowski. Gibson didn't reveal his source; it would have been junked. The irony of Bush uttering his words made Malinowski queasy. "The line I wrote that I think will probably be remembered and quoted more than any other was uttered not by Clinton but Bush."
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Ghost of Clinton - Bush's 9/11 speech
It would have been better if Clinton had uttered those words, or something remotely similar, when the terrorists were bombing our consulates, our military barracks, the World Trade Center, and even destroying a NAVAL SHIP - the first since Pearl Harbor to be totaled by enemy weapons. If Clinton had taken the hard line, as Bush did, the results might have been the same: no terrorist action against us on our soil - or elsewhere for 8 shining years. In that same speech, Bush identified our enemies as ALL terrorists, and not just bin Laden and his group. The world recognized that Bush meant exactly what he said when he laid down the gauntlet with the "for us or agin us," not safe anywhere speech. Even Libya's contentious leader jumped up on our bandwagon and agreed to finally dismantle their terrorist-training camps. AND today, although bombings have increased, they are bombing each other, and not us. Like Roosevelt said: "Speak softly, and carry a big stick." At their current level of civilized development and in their cultural milieu, strength is what terrorists respect. Other countries might disparage America, but when it hits the fan, it's America they call on and rely on. Maybe if our media and our entertainers would stop their negativity, carried live all over the world, we'd have a better press rating. Interestingly enough, in a recent Reader's Digest poll, we got some very negative ratings, but at the same time, America is the country most foreigners would emigrate to. Go figure.
this is a dumb idea
thats not evan a hard line to think of so.....
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