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Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden
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| 8/15/05
| NewsMax
Posted on 08/15/2005 8:08:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks – if only the FBI and CIA had been able to prove the al-Qaida mastermind was behind the attack on the U.S.S. Cole.
"I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole," Clinton tells New York magazine this week. "Then we could have launched an attack on Afghanistan early."
"I don’t know if it would have prevented 9/11," he added. "But it certainly would have complicated it.”
Despite his failure to launch such an attack, Clinton said he saw the danger posed by bin Laden much more clearly than did President Bush.
"I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did," he told New York magazine.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: wagglebee
The headline is wrong: he really said "I would have attacked Bev Laden...she had some buh-ZOOMS, let me tell you"
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:13:35 PM PDT
by
decal
("The Republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it")
To: wagglebee
****"I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole," ***
...you were!
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:13:36 PM PDT
by
buckeyesrule
(God bless Condi Rice!)
To: wagglebee
"I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did," he told New York magazine. Pathetic. A slimy grandstander. The man has no shame.
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:13:55 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: wagglebee
CLINTON: If I only had one more day in office, I would have cured cancer, AIDS, poverty, global warming and found Jimmy Hoffa!!
CRONKITE: And that's the way it is...or could have been...or should have been...
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:14:00 PM PDT
by
Rokurota
(.)
To: wagglebee
My, my, Bill must be in touch with the weather...
To: A CA Guy; wagglebee
"So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have," Clinton explained. "But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:14:13 PM PDT
by
Stellar Dendrite
(The presence of "peace" is the absence of opposition to socialism -- Marx)
To: wagglebee
Pitiful. Clinton thinks his only mistake as POTUS was not splurging for a new blue dress. What happened to the rule that ex-presidents retire quietly? Carter and Bubba get worse by the month.
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:14:15 PM PDT
by
Shqipo
(Doing what I can to turn Maine back to Red.)
To: wagglebee
People say how smart Bill Clinton is. Look who the dumba$$ married....
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:14:23 PM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(Get all the incumbents out of politics!)
To: wagglebee
Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks ..
Yeah. He would have taken out Obama bin Laden if he could've found time in his busy schedule of slinging his DNA around the Oval Office.
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:14:27 PM PDT
by
WideGlide
(That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
To: wagglebee
To: 50sDad
I can't tell you how many times I've expressed that exact sentiment
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:14:30 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Liberals preach comity and practice calumny.)
To: wagglebee
Yeah, sure Clinton! It would have gone just like your escapade in Somalia and Carter's in Iran.
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:14:35 PM PDT
by
Americanexpat
(A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
To: wagglebee
I guess the "Able Danger" revelation is bringing a little sweat to your brow there Billy Boy, eh?
Lying SOS.
To: 50sDad
...n' save a few drops for Hilary's, too...
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:15:32 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(**AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS NOT SO MUCH "WHO" WE STAND FOR, BUT RATHER "WHAT" WE STAND FOR**)
To: wagglebee
Hey, if the American people believe this enabler of 911, they deserve everthing they get. And...believe me, they will enter a world of horrors they never, ever dreamed of!!! Wait until their babies get slaughtered like innocent Iraqi and Israeli children. Remember the 1500 years of the Roman Empire!!! It fell in exactly the same fashion as the USA is falling today. Bin Laden and his ilk are rubbing their hands and laughing their heads off at the American people who fall for the Clinton and Democrat/Liberal BS. America, you will be sorry!!! Of that much, I can assure you!!! What Bill Clinton is selling will make 911 look like a church Sunday School picnic.
To: wagglebee
Lying SOB. He's a coward. He ran from Bin Laden for 8 loooooong years, and good men died.
Clinton is, and always has been, low life trash.
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:15:53 PM PDT
by
concerned about politics
("A people without a heritage are easily persuaded (deceived)" - Karl Marx)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:15:58 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
To: wagglebee
Wasn't he offered the 'proverbial head on a platter' by one of the east African nations, but declined' as I recall?
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:15:58 PM PDT
by
ZOTnot
('We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good'--Hillary, 6/28/2004.)
To: wagglebee
Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks
He could have picked him up in Sudan if he thought he was so dangerous
. Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize
Sudan offered up the terrorist and data on his network. The then-president and his advisors didn't respond.
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posted on
08/15/2005 8:16:00 PM PDT
by
gpapa
(Voice of reason from the left coast)
To: wagglebee
Of course he would have, we all would have. But he didn't. Stop lying when history can prove you wrong.
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