Didn't Old Slick 
contract out our security to the Red Chinese when he was in office?
Posted on 08/07/2004 12:05:29 AM PDT by ambrose
TORONTO (AFP) - Former US Pre-sident Bill Clin-ton on Thursday accused President George W. Bush’s administration of contracting out US security and the hunt for Osama bin Laden to Pakistan, in its zeal to wage war in Iraq.
Though he didn’t mention Bush by name, Clinton, on a book tour in Canada, said the Iraq war had drained resources which could have been better spent chasing the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks. “We will never know if we could have gotten him (bin Laden), because we didn’t make it a priority,” Clinton said in an interview with CBC television.
Clinton, who is supporting Bush’s Democratic opponent Senator John Kerry in the November 2 US election, said that at the time of the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein was only Washington’s number five security threat.
“Why did we put our number one security threat in the hands of the Pakistanis with us playing the supporting role and put all our military resources into Iraq which was I think at best our number five security threat?” asked Clinton.
“How did we get to the point where we have 130,000 troops in Iraq and 15,000 in Afghanistan?” Clinton said other top security threats after the September 11, 2001 attacks on which the Bush administration should have concentrated were the Middle East, the India-Pakistan conflict, and North Korea’s nuclear program.
Clinton also said that, had he been President during the run-up to the Iraq war and former United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix told him Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, he would have sided with Blix in the face of US intelligence data to the contrary.
this might get one or two replies.
I think he was talking about the dozen or so chances his administration had to get Ossama.
You beat me to the punch. :-)
Speaking of clinton, whatever happened to the Sandy Burglar story?
What are you talking about? The media has much better things to do, like cover Abu Graihb and the President's six minutes with the school children on 9/11. So the guy was stealing/altering top-secret documents. Everybody knows he's just sloppy.
He used "we" as in the royal "we" as in "I". So technically, he was telling the truth for once!
Slicker 'n ever...
Why didn't you do anything for eight years you scummy bastard?!?
At least Bush is doing smth about it unlike the syphlitic, cocaine snorting rapist that was in office from 1993-2001
Someone please tell me again why President Bush was nice to Xlinton during his portrait unveiling.
15,000 troops in Afghanistan is 15,000 more than Clinton ever had there.
Didn't Old Slick contract out our security to the Red Chinese when he was in office?
Methinks Bubba doth protest too much. He's trying to cover for the fact that he let Sandy Hamburgler talk him into not doing anything about Bin Laden. He is nothing more than a sleazy opportunist trying to protect a nonexistent legacy.
If Osama is in Pakistan, and the Pakistani gov't won't allow American troops to conduct offensive operations in its territory, and the Pakistani gov't is willing to hunt for bin Laden on its own... then what the heck is wrong with the status quo? Should we start a war with Pakistan?
Or the fact that Bubba ordered to capture, rather than kill him. Ya know, it was a law enforcement issue...
sorry for being blunt... but doesn't he have a whore or two that needs his attention?
why is he trying to screw us, when he has so many hotties to bag?
clinton will do hard time in his lifetime.
he just can't let it go.
it can be a mistake
to hang on
when the
time's
run
out
.
Always wondered if they wouldn't let us in back in '01. Heck right now they're putting down a quite Islamic insurrection akin to Saudi Arabia. Support the regime...for now. Machiavelli strategy.
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