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Clark: Bin Laden Not My Problem
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| Sunday Jan. 4, 2004; 2:05 p.m. EST
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 01/04/2004 7:29:46 PM PST by Kaslin
Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark has repeatedly blamed President Bush for not protecting America from the 9/11 attacks, regularly invoking Harry Truman's Oval Office motto, "The buck stops here."
But when it comes to intelligence gathered during the Clinton administration on the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, the then-Supreme Commander of NATO said Sunday that it just wasn't his job to intervene.
Clark passed the buck in bin Laden during the following exchange with NBC "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert:
RUSSERT: When you were Supreme NATO Commander were you aware of Osama bin Laden [and] al Qaeda? And did you warn anyone about the threat?
CLARK: The information [we had on bin Laden] was coming out of the Central Command area. What my responsibility was, was to take the measures in my area. [End of excerpt]
"In fact, we did have threats by Osama bin Laden," he told Russert. "We had continuing discussions on this at our commanders' conferences with the Secretary of Defense."
TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004election; balkans; binladen; bushbashing; candidateclark; clinton; didnothing; election2004; kookyclark; mtp; nationalsecurity; nato; obl; osamabinladen; saceur; terrorism; waronterror; wesleyclark; whataweasel; wot
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To: CyberAnt
You cannot blame an officer for following orders .. especially in the case of WACO, because I'm sure at the time Clark would have had no way of knowing what they intended to do with the equipment.You're 100% correct. How could poor Wes know they were going to use those tanks and Bradleys for anything other than the annual Branch Dravidian Easter Egg Hunt.
(/sarcasm)
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posted on
01/05/2004 4:25:45 AM PST
by
metesky
(My investment program is still holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
To: OldFriend; MeeknMing; Alamo-Girl; Mia T; Ragtime Cowgirl; nopardons; PhilDragoo; onyx; Happy2BMe; ..
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posted on
01/05/2004 5:30:15 AM PST
by
autoresponder
(SLICK http://0access.tripod.com/legacy.html OLDIES BG MUSIC: http://0access.tripod.com/slick.html)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
01/05/2004 7:35:23 AM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Kaslin
I have a prediction... I'll go out on a limb here and say that the dictator caught by our soldiers during the Bush administration will be tried and executed by his own people before the dictator caught by the soldiers under Clark's command..
Wait, uhh, wasn't that dictator that was caught by NATO just elected to office?
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posted on
01/05/2004 7:54:26 AM PST
by
kingu
To: Mia T
It is easy for the left to lay the blame for the attack on 9/11 to the president, when in fact it was Billy Jeff who ignored the danger. Also Why didn't the Clinton administration create a Homeland Security Office? If there had been one in place when the president was elected and took office on January 21, 2001 perhaps 9/11 could have been avoided. At least that's my thought.
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posted on
01/05/2004 8:00:52 AM PST
by
Kaslin
("The way to dishonor a fallen soldier is to quit too early." President George W. Bush)
To: kingu
I have a prediction... I'll go out on a limb here and say that the dictator caught by our soldiers during the Bush administration will be tried and executed by his own people before the dictator caught by the soldiers under Clark's command..
No need to go out on a limb. I agree one hundred percent
Wait, uhh, wasn't that dictator that was caught by NATO just elected to office?
Yep he was, and you can be sure if a democrat were president Saddam would get back into power again and be allowed to do what he's been doing
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posted on
01/05/2004 8:06:48 AM PST
by
Kaslin
("The way to dishonor a fallen soldier is to quit too early." President George W. Bush)
To: autoresponder
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posted on
01/05/2004 9:01:58 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Howie Dean in the South !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/IowaRatsLastMealNewDeal.JPG)
To: metesky
Look smart alec .. the democrats are a pitiful lot and I'll gladly convict them for all their corrupt and outrageous acts. But .. if you don't have facts to support your claim, then just making up stuff is stupid.
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posted on
01/05/2004 9:08:11 AM PST
by
CyberAnt
(America is the greatest force for good on the planet ..!!)
To: OldFriend
"he knew"
How would he know that .. of course the equipment was there to be used if necessary .. but you're saying the guy had to be clairvoyant. That's ignorant.
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posted on
01/05/2004 9:11:24 AM PST
by
CyberAnt
(America is the greatest force for good on the planet ..!!)
To: OldFriend
How do you know he didn't agrue the point ..?? Were you there in his office when it was being discussed ..??
YOU DON'T KNOW! You trying to argue a position for which you have no information .. that's just speculation.
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posted on
01/05/2004 9:14:53 AM PST
by
CyberAnt
(America is the greatest force for good on the planet ..!!)
To: CyberAnt
Sarcasm not your strong point, eh?
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posted on
01/05/2004 9:15:56 AM PST
by
metesky
(My investment program is still holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
To: CyberAnt
Okay, we're all stupid and ignorant and you are defending the indefensible. Who's the stupid and ignorant one....YOU!!!
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posted on
01/05/2004 9:25:35 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: OldFriend
I never called you stupid or ignorant.
But to ASSUME Clark just folded and went along when you weren't there to know what happened .. that is speculation not fact.
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posted on
01/05/2004 9:50:47 AM PST
by
CyberAnt
(America is the greatest force for good on the planet ..!!)
To: metesky
Well .. if changing the subject helps you ..??
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posted on
01/05/2004 9:54:06 AM PST
by
CyberAnt
(America is the greatest force for good on the planet ..!!)
To: autoresponder; MeeknMing; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER; SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; PhiKapMom; ...
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We were much too busy getting Vince Foster, denying armor to our forces in Mogadishu, barbecueing Davidian children, persecuting Bill Gates, kidnapping Elian Gonzalez and handing him over to Fidel Psycho to take advantage of the dozen opportunities dumped in our lap to kill or capture bin Laden.
All bin Laden did was bomb the two hotels in Aden housing U.S. troops, blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, massacre the Rangers in Mogadishu, blow up U.S. barracks in Saudi, blow up two Embassies in Africa, blow up the U.S. Cole--besides, we were too busy ignoring Kim Jong Il's nuke program, the Rwandan Massacre, the escape of the bad guys in Bosnia, targeting tractor convoys of refugees in Kosovo, and apologizing to Africa for being prosperous.
CLARK CLINTON
We are the Hollow Men
Especially Hitlery
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posted on
01/05/2004 5:52:30 PM PST
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: PhilDragoo
Lets face it the real reason Clinton did nothing is because there was nothing in it for either him or Hillary.
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posted on
01/05/2004 5:54:03 PM PST
by
SAMWolf
(Gotta run, the cat's caught in the printer.)
To: PhilDragoo
Yep. All the clintoons were doing was getting what they could on the backs of America and her future. Traitors.
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posted on
01/05/2004 5:56:08 PM PST
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
To: PhilDragoo
Very well stated!
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posted on
01/05/2004 6:18:09 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04)
To: PhilDragoo
We are the Hollow Men I needed a bottle of Rolaids when I read that book.
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