[norwaypinesavage]

It seems that more should be made of the declaration of war binLaden made against the US on Aug 23, 1996. Some might consider that to be a pivotal moment.

[MizSterious]

That document really highlighted who and what our enemy was, and is. To this day, a lot of people still don't get it. They don't want to "negotiate." They want to convert us to their perverted brand of religion, or annihilate us. They consider "negotiations" in the same category as weakness and softness, and they spit on our efforts to do so.

I don't know if anyone in the Clinton admin got that. I do know that they made it legally difficult if not impossible to deal with terrorism, and that they sympathized with their cause. I also know (from recent reports) that Marc Rich seems to have been in line to receive Saddam funding, and that Rich was so important to Clinton, that he didn't care about all the criticism he reaped when he pardoned him. Somewhere, I suspect, there's a large sum awaiting the Clintons--some offshore, perhaps Swiss account.