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 dont 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.
This is sick. He needs to first return the White House silverware. Crooked bastard.
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.
...but I heard he already had a boyfriend
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.
"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.)
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 ?
LOL! I needed that!
Billy! Quit competing with Jimmy for the "Most stupid statement by an ex President" award
The "Able Danger" spin begins and billy BJ tries to minimize the damage.....
---"Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden" ---
I would have gotten some better looking interns.
coulda, woulda, shoulda.......
What a piece of work he is.
My thoughts exactly. Billy: coulda, woulda, shoulda.......
GW: DOING
anybody still doubt what Sandy Burglar was trying to steal??
ping
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.
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
Clintons 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
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
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