Clinton faces some tough 9-11 questions

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Clinton faces some tough 9-11 questions
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Wed, 03-17-2004 - 4:26pm
Lisa Myers has an exclusive report on secret CIA footage of OBL, and another missed opportunity to involve the military in combatting terrrorism.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4540958/

Renee

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Fri, 03-19-2004 - 1:38pm
It is nice to see your opinion on this matter, but please back it up with some facts...."Clinton had a foriegn policy that worked a lot better than the one the current moron we have in office. Bush has alienated 80% of the world, made us mavricks from the UN, and has caused us more problems in 4 years then anyone in the history of this country."

Clinton had foreign policy? Please tell me where and how it was put into place.

Why do you think Clinton was so desperate to try to have a legacy other than Lewinksy and Whitewater that he tried so hard to get a peace accord between Israel and Palestine.

In doing so, he forced Ihud Barak to conceed just about everything without getting anything in return from Arafat. I guess Clinton thought that Arafat would negotiate in good faith as well. This is proof that Clinton had no idea at all about Arafat and how Arafat was using Clinton to get Israel to give up so much without getting anything in return.....look at where that has gotten the peace process in that region to date.....absolutely no where.

>> Clinton didn't get Bin Laden because we could DO anything to him. How big of a mistake do you think it would have been to get Bin Laden, try him on international TV only to have him LET GO because we didn't HAVE anything on him?!?!?!?

We had enough information to tie him into the US embassy bombings as well as the attack on the USS Cole, and there was one more opportunity for the Clinton Administration to get bin Laden after getting this information.

Bush was provided with the evidence that existed towards the end of the Clinton Administration, and I do agree that Bush did not deploy the Predator drones quickly enough to get bin Laden, but neither did Clinton (no excuse for Bush however).

Yes he did get Saddam Hussein, who was thought by the intelligence communities of SEVERAL nations to be one of the most dangerous men in the world. Please show me your facts to contradict this. Just because the intelligence on the WMD's was not correct, it does not refute that he was trying to get the weapons ($10 million going to North Korea for their no dung II missiles (spellling???), and he even thought that he had these stockpiles (which is partly why our intelligence believed it as well).

The war on terrorism is exactly that...a War. Clinton even admitted that he wanted to declare war on al Quaeda....why didn't he?????

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Fri, 03-19-2004 - 1:39pm
Actually we did as early as late 1999 (the US embassy bombings), and then when the USS Cole was attacked, that was the icing on the cake. By the way.....Clinton did NOTHING after the attack on the Cole.
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Fri, 03-19-2004 - 1:39pm
Give that man a cigar......
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Fri, 03-19-2004 - 1:41pm
I guess they forget about the first attack on the WTC, or the embassy bombings, or the planned attack for the millenium that was foiled, or the attack on the USS Cole....etc, etc, etc, etc.
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Fri, 03-19-2004 - 1:50pm
I think you have your complaints backwards, arming the preditor drone was Bush's problem, he was the one that was in "charge" while letting the FBI and CIA bicker over who got to control an armed predator drone to get OBL.
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Fri, 03-19-2004 - 2:45pm
>> letting the FBI and CIA bicker over who got to control an armed predator drone to get OBL.

I agree, if this is the case, then that is pretty stupid. Who cares, as long as the job is done....make it a joint effort....

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Registered: 07-25-2003
Fri, 03-19-2004 - 4:20pm
Wrong. Under Clinton's watch a drone filmed OBL surrounded by his entourage. They didn't follow up with a special forces team or an armed drone as the lower levels folks were recommending.

Renee

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Fri, 03-19-2004 - 5:17pm
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Bush's attempted to get OBL in Afghanistan with a predator drone. The result was death and injury to innocents. Apparently the man was not OBL afterall.

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Fri, 03-19-2004 - 5:23pm
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Clinton did something, he just decided it wasn't appropriate to impliment his plan.

Why didn't you respond to the al-Qaeda attack on the U.S.S. Cole? The attack occurred on Oct. 12, 2000; 17 American sailors were killed. The Clinton Administration wanted to declare war on al-Qaeda. An aggressive military response was prepared, including special-forces attacks on al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. But Clinton decided that it was inappropriate to take such dramatic action during the transition.

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-elinthenews&msg=6231.1

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Fri, 03-19-2004 - 5:29pm
Thanks for the back up. I now have a question, did Clinton put pressure on Sudan to release OBL, or did Sudan just expell him? I have not seen the offer to "babysit" from any other source.

The Sudanese offered to arrest Bin Laden and extradite him to Saudi Arabia or, barring that, to "baby-sit" him--monitoring all his activities and associates.

But Saudi officials didn't want their home-grown terrorist back where he might plot to overthrow them.

In May 1996, the Sudanese capitulated to U.S. pressure and asked Bin Laden to leave, despite their feeling that he could be monitored better in Sudan than elsewhere

http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/Clinton_let_bin_laden.htm

Unable to persuade the Saudis to accept Mr. bin Laden, and lacking a case to indict him in U.S. courts, the Clinton administration finally gave up on the capture.

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Sudan expelled Mr. bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan. From there, he is thought to have planned and financed the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the near-destruction of the American destroyer Cole in Yemen last year and the devastation in New York and Washington on Sept. 11.

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-elinthenews&msg=6231.4

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