ShaklesOfBigGov
Restore the Republic
Funny that you cast the blame on Clinton for the 1993 bombing of the WTC when it was mere days, not months into his Presidency. Nor did he recieve a PDB entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike In the USA". Nor did he stop and blame President Bush(41) either. Furthermore you credit President Bush with stopping terrorist attack on US soil and then list 5 terrorist attacks that occurred under Clinton that were on foriegn soil? You also failed to mention that many of the counter terrorism incentives proposed by President Clinton were fought with an alliance of the ACLU and Republican in Congress.
President Clinton did more to fight Terrorism that any President before him.
When did the Bush Administration finally take up the question of international terrorism? I recall that the Bush team regarded Star-War Missile defense as the way to protect America from Rogue Nations, well until 9-11 that is.....
Mere days? I bet you still like to place blame for this current state of the economy, on Bush and the Republicans after three years don't you? So don't give me this mere days crap! This bombing of the World Trade Center happened on who's watch? If Clinton did such a fantasic job in fighting terrorism, why are there more reports of terrorist attacks that followed the 1993 Trade Center bombings than can be found after 9-11? (facts "supported" under my last post) Looks like the only thing your beloved Clinton was concerned about was covering his own ass with Monica Lewinski.
I do however, see the GREAT "success" these counter terrorism incentives you mentioned actually had, please read:
US missed three chances to seize Bin Laden
The Sunday Times of London 01/06/2002
PRESIDENT Bill Clinton turned down at least three offers involving foreign governments to help to seize Osama Bin Laden after he was identified as a terrorist who was threatening America, according to sources in Washington and the Middle East.
Clinton himself, according to one Washington source, has described the refusal to accept the first of the offers as "the biggest mistake" of his presidency.
The main reasons were legal: there was no evidence that could be brought against Bin Laden in an American court. But former senior intelligence sources accuse the administration of a lack of commitment to the fight against terrorism.
When Sudanese officials claimed late last year that Washington had spurned Bin Laden's secret extradition from Khartoum in 1996, former White House officials said they had no recollection of the offer. Senior sources in the former administration now confirm that it was true.
An Insight investigation has revealed that far from being an isolated incident this was the first in a series of missed opportunities right up to Clinton's last year in office. One of these involved a Gulf state; another would have relied on the assistance of Saudi Arabia.
In early 1996 America was putting strong pressure on Sudan's Islamic government to expel Bin Laden, who had been living there since 1991. Sources now reveal that Khartoum sent a former intelligence officer with Central Intelligence Agency connections to Washington with an offer to hand over Bin Laden — just as it had put another terrorist, Carlos the Jackal, into French hands in 1994.
At the time the State Department was describing Bin Laden as "the greatest single financier of terrorist projects in the world" and was accusing Sudan of harbouring terrorists. The extradition offer was turned down, however. A former senior White House source said: "There simply was not the evidence to prosecute Osama Bin Laden. He could not be indicted, so it would serve no purpose for him to have been brought into US custody."
A former figure in American counterterrorist intelligence claims, however, that there was "clear and convincing" proof of Bin Laden's conspiracy against America. In May, 1996, American diplomats were informed in a Sudanese government fax that Bin Laden was about to be expelled — giving Washington another chance to seize him. The decision not to do so went to the very top of the White House, according to former administration sources.
They say that the clear focus of American policy was to discourage the state sponsorship of terrorism. So persuading Khartoum to expel Bin Laden was in itself counted as a clear victory. The administration was "delighted".
Bin Laden took off from Khartoum on May 18 in a chartered C-130 plane with 150 of his followers, including his wives. He was bound for Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. On the way the plane refuelled in the Gulf state of Qatar, which has friendly relations with Washington, but he was allowed to proceed unhindered.
Barely a month later, on June 25, a 5,000lb truck bomb ripped apart the front of Khobar Towers, a US military housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The explosion killed 19 American servicemen. Bin Laden was immediately suspected.
Clinton is reported to have admitted how things went wrong in Sudan at a private dinner at a Manhattan restaurant shortly after September 11 last year. According to a witness, Clinton told a dinner companion that the decision to let Bin Laden go was probably "the biggest mistake of my presidency".
Clinton and Terrorism
Try including some facts when you make a statement next time, that way you won't look like someone who simply enjoys rambling about a subject you obviously know nothing about.
Nice attempt at diversion and denigration. The economy is a different subject. The first WTC bombing happen less than a month after Slick took office........
FactCheck.org : Clinton Passed on Killing bin Laden?
You are going to use an "opinion" site as your source over journalism? Are you kidding me? This is a joke right? Why not use "Yahoo answers" as your factual source base, and tell me that you are pulling from reliable credible source?
The WTC bombing still happened under Clinton's watch and the fact Clinton allowed so many terrorist attacks to happen that killed American lives, doesn't speak well to his policies on fighting terrorism and protecting the citizens of the United States. I dont recall the same plagues of attacks under GWB after 9-11.
(and if by your responce, you still blame GWB for the current state of this economy . . . that's pretty pathetic)
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