Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden

NewsMax ^ | 8/15/05 | NewsMax

[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.

[mercy]

If any post ever needed a HURL alert .... this is it.

[citizencon]

"I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did."

So, why didn't you nuke him when you had the power to do so?
Now you're talking tough...

[tiki]

Please tell me that you misattributed this and its really Scrappleface or the Onion. This is completely laughable.

[Cindy]

Note: Most of these links should be still be online.

NewsMax.com: "CLINTON ADMIN. KNEW OF 9/11 HIJACKERS" with Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff (August 9, 2005)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "AL QAEDA ABSENT FROM FINAL CLINTON REPORT" by James G. Lakely (April 6, 2004)

BOOK: "Dereliction of Duty: An Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security" by Buzz Patterson

USDOJ/OIG Special Report: "BOMBS IN BROOKLYN: HOW THE TWO ILLEGAL ALIENS ARRESTED FOR PLOTTING TO BOMB THE NEW YORK SUBWAY ENTERED AND REMAINED IN THE UNITED STATES" (March, 1998) (Note: The url has expired.)

INTERNET HAGANAH (WASHINGTON POST: "FREEH LINKS IRAN TO KHOBAR BOMBING" (December 19, 2003)

BOOK: "HOW TO DESTROY A VILLAGE: WHAT THE CLINTONS TAUGHT A SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD" by Jason D. Fodeman

BOOK: "LOSING BIN LADEN: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror" by Richard Miniter

NewsMax.com: "Clinton Audio Exclusive: Pre-September 11 Bin Laden Strike Wouldn't Have Worked" (August 7, 2002)

WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG - www.house.gov - Congressman Curt Weldon - COX REPORT: "CLINTON-GORE ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING, CHINESE ESPIONAGE, and U.S. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO PRC" (Note: PRC is The Peoples Republic of China.)

ARMED SERVICES.house.gov: "Testimony of Gary Milhollin Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School and | Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the Committees on International Relations and National Security United States House of Representatives June 17, 1998" (TESTIMONY SNIPPET: "When we look at the history of U.S. sanctions policy, we see a willingness to sanction China for missile proliferation in both the Bush Administration, which applied sanctions in 1991, and in the Clinton Administration, which applied sanctions in 1993. But in 1995, the Clinton Administration policy changes. China supplied the C-802s to Iran in 1995; China supplied other missile components to Iran and Pakistan in 1995 and has continued to supply up to the present time. And in 1996, the Administration refused to act on explicit findings by the intelligence community that the transfers occurred. Also in 1996, the Administration started transferring control over satellites exports from the State to the Commerce Department, insulating them from the application of missile sanction laws in the future. For some reason, the Administration decided in either 1995 or 1996 that missile sanctions would no longer be part of U.S. policy in dealing with China. Why did U.S. policy change? I don't know the answer to that question, but I urge the Committees to look into it. We do know the result of the policy change. It gave China a green light to proliferate. Our government's policy on sanctions has enabled Chinese satellite launch companies to sell missiles and missile components to Iran and Pakistan without fear of punishment. Thus, it may be that we are asking the wrong question about how our satellite export policy affects missile proliferation. Whether or not our satellite exports caused U.S. missile technology to go to China, they have made it easier for Chinese missile technology to go to Pakistan.")

NewsMax.com: "NORTH KOREA NUKES CLINTON LEGACY" by Charles R. Smith (010803)

FREE CONGRESS.org - Notable News Now: "NEGLIGENCE: BILL CLINTON'S REAL LEGACY ON NATIONAL DEFENSE" -Commentary by Paul M. Weyrich (120502)

WorldNetDaily.com: "U.S. FIRMS HELPED CHINA WITH NUKES? State Accuses Hughes, Boeing of Providing Missile Technology" by Jon Dougherty (010203)

GertzFile.com

SoftWar.net

TOWNHALL.com: "CLINTON SCANDALS CONTINUE TO SURFACE" -Column by Phyllis Schlafly (COLUMN SNIPPET: "...The GAO discovered that those pilots departed because the Clinton administration ordered them to receive the anthrax vaccine, and 86 percent of those who did take the shots reported adverse side effects. Now, after scores of resignations and hundreds of careers destroyed by court-martial, we discover that our brave servicemen and women were right to resist the anthrax orders, and the government was fatally and corruptly wrong. A lawsuit filed by two Connecticut Air Force Reserve pilots asserted that the vaccine used on the military was never properly tested, and the Food and Drug Administration's recent response was to halt use of existing stocks of the vaccine...") (110502)

stepping back in time...GULF1.com: "CLINTON and SADDAM" by Robert L. Pappas, Col. USMC (Ret.) (September 19, 1998) (Reposted July 21, 2003)

stepping back in time....RPC.SENATE.GOV: "Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia Into Militant Islamic Base" (011697)

WorldNetDaily (Human Events) article by Tim Carney: "U.S. TAX DOLLARS BUILD NUKE PLANT IN CHINA Clinton Deemed Government Loan 'in the national interest'"

"THE YEAR OF THE RAT: How Bill Clinton Compromised American Security for Chinese Money"

"DOWNSIDE LEGACY at Two Degrees of PRESIDENT CLINTON"

Informative Discussion on FreeRepublic.com re: "The Clinton Library Pardons"

Clinton Presidential Center

OpenSecrets.org: "CLINTON'S LEGAL EXPENSE TRUST DATABASE"

US DOJ.gov: "Recent Presidential Pardons" -Roger C. Adams, Pardon Attorney before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate (February 14, 2001)

stepping back in time..."THE BOYS ON THE TRACKS"

WorldNetDaily.com - Book Excerpt: "THE RAPE OF JUANITA BROADDRICK Chapter from 'Their Lives' tells of woman's horrifying encounter with Clinton" (May 26, 2005)

TOWNHALL.com: "LINDA TRIPP's LONG SLOG" -Coumn by Gary Aldrich (November 5, 2003)

BRAIN-TERMINAL.com: New York City - "THE CLINTON LEGACY" by Evan Coyne Maloney (Online Video, View Now.) (June 24, 2004)

[Txsleuth]

Yeppers---and all of these dems are running around saying that Bush MADE more terrorists...

I think that ole Billy did when he was haphazardly bombing these places...and then no follow up.

You mentioned stirring up the hornet's nest...it was Clinton that did it..not Bush.

[MNJohnnie]

Billy what about...ABLE DANGER, ABLE DANGER, ABLE DANGER

You blew it, we KNOW it.

[Howlin]

U.S. yanked bribe plan to capture Bin Laden (hillary!, Albright might object)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1176908/posts

[Cindy]

ping

[MNJohnnie]

Ah Bill, why was the Gorelic Wall built between Federal Intellegence and Law Enforcement under your administration?

[fantom]

what a great quote. hannity plays the full tape often. i'm sure we will hear it again after this latest self denial. oh and lets not forget , mr. ijaz who tried to broker the deal for bin ladin. i'm beginning to think weldon is on to something. also when hannity played it for lehman (a member of the commision ), he clamied it was the firt time he heard it.

[Howlin]

You won't believe this!

[Howie66]

Only if Bin Laden had been wearing a blue dress, thongs, and was carrying a pizza.......

Give it up, der Schlickmeister! You're a knob!

[Chode]

Quick Click

[Cindy]

FreeRepublic.com - Keyword Search: "Atta"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=atta

[doug from upland]

S T F U

[Stellar Dendrite]

lehman is a rino.....i never trusted that guy.
he told weldon he never heard of able danger, then on friday he said they had but there was nothing to it, IIRC.

[Cecily]

This guy is unreal. You make me sick, Bubba, you incompetent, lying jackass.

[Velveeta]

[Lucky2]

BJs...Bin laden, BJs...Bin Laden, BJs...Bin Laden........

[HighWheeler]

That clownish jackass had EIGHT years to get Bin Laden after the first WTC bombing in 1993, and was offered OBL's head on a platter by Sudan in March 1996, and he refused.

Clinton is such a jerk.

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