Posted on 09/11/2005 9:24:30 PM PDT by RolandTignor
Does anyone know when Bill Clinton arrived at the Oklahoma City Bombing? Was it a few hours? A few days? Also, does anyone know what he was doing when he found out when OKC was bombed? With the liberal media and democrats harassing President Bush's (supposed)late arrival in the Gulf Coast, i'm trying to find out what Clinton did during the bombing. Thanks for the help.
That's a great question.
Also find out what he was doing when he murdered over 80 American citizens in Waco, TX.
And what about during the first World Trade Center bombing?
who was under his desk when the WTC was bombed in 1993? Or when the ships and embassy were bombed. Etc, et-freaking-cetera.
and what he was doing when the Cole was hit.
and what he was doing when Osama was walking around the compound presenting a very 'tall' target...was he golfing?
He blamed Rush first, walked over to the local whorehouse, got laid and sailed off to OKC to say a few words over the dearly departed; he has a bad heart now, you know.
I know he never visited the Twin Towers after the first attack and called it "nothing " during a speech in NJ.
Perhaps Col. Buzz Patterson has a website with e-mail address and you could ask him. Seriously.
He is the officer who wrote _Dereliction of Duty_.
He's always had a bad heart.
Probably the same thing as when his FBI sniper Hiroshi took out Randy Weaver's wife, and the other FBI agents took out Randy's son and dog.
I don't recall that he ever did.
No record of any visit of the site by Clinton. Here's what he was doing:
Mr. Clinton learned of the explosion about 10:30 A.M. from his press secretary, Michael D. McCurry, just as the President was beginning an Oval Office meeting with the Turkish Prime Minister.
Possibly, but he would have done it as the governor of Arkansas. Ruby Ridge happened on George H.W. Bush's watch.
"Does anyone know when Bill Clinton arrived at the Oklahoma City Bombing? Was it a few hours? A few days?"
4 days later.
The Oklahoma City bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
At 9:02 a.m. CST on Wednesday, April 19, 1995, in the street in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, a rented Ryder truck containing about 5,000 pounds (2,300 kg) of explosive material exploded
The national focus climaxed on April 23, when President Bill Clinton spoke in Oklahoma City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
The national focus climaxed on April 23, when President Bill Clinton spoke in Oklahoma City. In the weeks following the bombing, rescue efforts ceased, the building was imploded, and media interest shifted to the trials of Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols.
Just beat me to it!
Great question--I'm pinging so I can see the answer later
The World Trade Center Bombing: First Shot Across the Bow
President Bill Clinton's uneasy history with terrorism began thirty-six days after he swore to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." On February 26, 1993, a terrorist bomb exploded in the B-2 parking garage under One World Trade Center. The blast was triggered by twelve hundred pounds of urea nitrate, found in fertilizer, and three tanks of compressed hydrogen. This attack, the first foreign terrorist bombing on U.S. soil in modern times, ripped a five-floor hole in the building, instantly killing six people and injuring a thousand others.
In later years, in subsequent attacks, we became accustomed to seeing President Clinton at the site of such tragedies, seemingly struggling to control his emotions, biting his lower lip and fighting back tears. But New Yorkers were spared that piece of theater as they tried to cope with the impact of the bombing. The president never visited the site of the attack; he did not attend any of the funerals of its victims. What he did was go about his public routine.
Though he said he was "heartbroken" for the families of those killed in the blast, while in New Jersey Clinton assured citizens that "we've been very blessed in this country to have been free of the kind of terrorist activity that has gripped other countries. But I think it's important that we not overreact to it." He called on New Yorkers "to keep your courage up and go about your lives." The Globe noted that "while security was noticeably tight during Clinton's visit to New Brunswick and Piscataway, he did leave his limousine at one point to ride from the airport in Newark with some children going to a learning center." First things first.
Why didn't Clinton visit the site? The emphasis in his public statements and in the demeanor of New York officials in the aftermath of the attack was to avoid an "overreaction." Worried about public panic, and perhaps concerned that a presidential visit would get in the way of rescue and investigative efforts, New York officials told Clinton to stay away.
Okay, but what about afterward? President Bush let the smoke clear at Ground Zero for a few days after 9/11, but less than a week went by before he went and memorably addressed the rescue workers through a bullhorn, rallying them and reinvigorating America's sagging spirits. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, never visited the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the 1993 bombing.
He didn't go because he chose to treat the attack as an isolated criminal act, devoid of serious foreign policy or military implications. The fact that this was the first foreign terrorist attack on American soil seems to have set off no alarm bells at the young Clinton White House. The president treated it as a crime rather than as a foreign policy emergency. He defined terrorism as a law enforcement problem, not as a matter of national security. To Bill Clinton, it was not unlike any other homicide.
There was no effort to mobilize the nation, to sound the alarm, to reequip the military and intelligence apparatus to cope with the new threat. The government did nothing. Indeed, the director of the CIA, R. James Woolsey, later said he had not had a single private meeting with President Clinton through all of 1993 and 1994. Incredible.
In June 1993, when the FBI arrested Sheikh Rahman and nine of his followers, President Clinton must have been told that the terrorist groups in and around New York City were actively plotting massive destruction of high-profile targets. The World Trade Center had already been bombed, the United Nations and bridges and tunnels had been targeted. What else did the president need to grasp the gravity of the situation? Yet he never ordered any major shakeup of the antiterror apparatus. No extra tools were given to the FBI. No massive mobilization was declared. The government simply shrugged its shoulders; the bank robbers had been caught, after all; why make a fuss?
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