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Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden
NewsMax ^ | 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.


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To: wagglebee

This is sick. He needs to first return the White House silverware. Crooked bastard.


61 posted on 08/15/2005 8:22:02 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (America is becoming pussified.)
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To: SunnyD1182
He has got to be kidding me. This clown sat there and let the 1993 WTC attacks happen, he let numerous other embassy attacks happen, and he STILL sat there and did nothing. Why should we sit there and believe that he would have magically taken Osama out after the USS Cole?
Well the first WTC bombing was the first year of Clinton's presidency. I don't know if he could have prevented that. But Bin Lauden continued to live in Saudi Arabia until 1996 so if there was any link Clinton knew about to the WTC bombing Bin Laudin was arrestable. Then the embassy bombings in 1998 were conclusively blamed on Al Quaeda but Clinton only sent a couple of missiles at training camps - he had plenty of reason and opportunity then.
62 posted on 08/15/2005 8:22:38 PM PDT by gondramB
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To: NathanBookman
He did attack Bin Laden, with a billion dollars worth of cruise missiles at an Al Qaeda training camp and an aspirin factory in Sudan, the exact same moment Lewinsky was testifying in front of a Grand Jury whether Clinton lied. Clinton's attack did little but to stir up the hornets nest without killing any of the hornets. 9/11 was payback for this botched attack.
63 posted on 08/15/2005 8:22:42 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: wagglebee
Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden....

...but I heard he already had a boyfriend

64 posted on 08/15/2005 8:22:45 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Liberals preach comity and practice calumny.)
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To: wagglebee

Isn't there one reporter out there with enough nuggets to bring up the fact that Clinton let Bin Laden go? Hell, it's on tape, even.


65 posted on 08/15/2005 8:23:27 PM PDT by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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To: ZOTnot
On three,THREE separate occasions, Clinton was offered bin Laden on a platter. And three times he declined to take him; saying that there was "no legal/criminal precedent."
66 posted on 08/15/2005 8:24:35 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: wagglebee
Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden

A Monday morning quarterback if there ever was one.
67 posted on 08/15/2005 8:24:57 PM PDT by clyde asbury (On a dark desert highway, Cool Whip in my hair.)
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To: wagglebee

"Lucky though he was, Bill Clinton never had his shot at greatness. He could lower the jobless rate, balance the budget, and console us after the Oklahoma City bomb. But he never got the opportunity George W. Bush was given [on Sept. 11]: the historic chance to lead. -- Chris Matthews in the San Francisco Chronicle

(Chrissie must be crying in her (sic) beer right now.)


68 posted on 08/15/2005 8:26:46 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Lonesome's First Law: Whenever anyone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.)
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To: wagglebee
Clinton is a frelling liar!!!!!
69 posted on 08/15/2005 8:26:51 PM PDT by roylene
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To: wagglebee

Huh ? He WAS president when he fired a cruise missle through an empty tent and hit a camel in the a$$...supposedly to get Bin-laden.
Am I missing something here ?


70 posted on 08/15/2005 8:27:08 PM PDT by stylin19a (In golf, some are long, I'm "Lama Long")
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To: wagglebee

LOL! I needed that!


71 posted on 08/15/2005 8:27:21 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("Avoid novelties, for every novelty is an innovation, and every innovation is an error. " - Mohammed)
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To: wagglebee

Billy! Quit competing with Jimmy for the "Most stupid statement by an ex President" award


72 posted on 08/15/2005 8:29:15 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Brick by brick, stone by stone, the Revolution grows)
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To: wagglebee

The "Able Danger" spin begins and billy BJ tries to minimize the damage.....


73 posted on 08/15/2005 8:29:17 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: NathanBookman

---"Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden" ---

I would have gotten some better looking interns.


74 posted on 08/15/2005 8:29:20 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: The Mayor

coulda, woulda, shoulda.......

What a piece of work he is.



My thoughts exactly. Billy: coulda, woulda, shoulda.......

GW: DOING


75 posted on 08/15/2005 8:30:48 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Brick by brick, stone by stone, the Revolution grows)
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To: wagglebee

anybody still doubt what Sandy Burglar was trying to steal??


76 posted on 08/15/2005 8:31:16 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; All

ping


77 posted on 08/15/2005 8:31:30 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: wagglebee

History revision alert.

To be fair, BC is a [mentally & emotionally] sick person. He is a pathological liar. After he repeats a lie several times, he truly believes it himself. He probably is the first person to believe the lies he tells.

I wouldn't give a crap about his pathologies if he had not been in a postition of power, enabling him to do severe damage to our country and the future of our children.


78 posted on 08/15/2005 8:31:33 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
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To: backhoe; piasa; kcvl

Clinton aides admit little done to foil terrorism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1464078/posts?page=6

CNN: White House April 2000 Terrorism report DOES NOT EVEN MENTION Al Quaeda.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1106927/posts

Negligence: Bill Clinton's Real Legacy On National Defense
http://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2002/021205PW.asp

Clinton’s Loss?
How the previous administration fumbled on bin Laden.
http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory091103b.asp

What Clinton Knew — And What Clinton Did
Ex-president become Second-Guesser in Chief.

http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200310170939.asp

The Final Clinton Gift ? Give us Osama in 30 days, or.?..Dec.20, 2000 (title-mine)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/528591/posts


79 posted on 08/15/2005 8:31:53 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: wagglebee
Mark Twain wrote about a circumstance in which he had been swindled in a horse sale by the auctioneer's brother, "If the auctioneer's brother's funeral takes place while I am in Virginia City, I will postpone all other recreation and attend it." I feel the same way about Bill Clinton.

As long as he is alive and able to speak, he will lie. And all his lies will have the same theme -- to pump up Bill Clinton and damage everyone else around him. The only thing which will shut his lying mouth is when he is finally dead. (Mind you, I do not threaten him in any way. I just hope he dies of natural causes, but promptly.)

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "The 9/11 9/11 Commission" (Not a Misprint)

80 posted on 08/15/2005 8:32:07 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Will President Bush's SECOND appointment obey the Constitution? I give 95-5 odds on yes.)
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