Bush: Weak terror response led to 9/11 (Bush hits back at Clinton)

UPI ^ | 9/22/05

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

Bush: Weak terror response led to 9/11

Sep 22, 2005, 19:00 GMT

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- President Bush said withdrawing from Iraq would be a mistake that would embolden terrorists just as U.S. responses to other attacks led to 9/11 hijackings.

Speaking Thursday at the Pentagon after an update on the war on terror, Bush said a pullback would be seen as weakness and make the United States less safe.

'The terrorists saw our response to the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings in the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole,' Bush said. 'The terrorists concluded that we lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves and so they attacked us.'

It was the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, carried out by al-Qaida operatives, that led Bush to launch the war on terror with an attack on Afghanistan, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden had been given sanctuary. Bush links the fighting in Iraq with the war on terror.

The president said the plan is to follow a strategy of making political gains in the affected counties, while training local personnel to assume security operations.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"The Democrats saw our response to four and a half years of lies, distortions, obstructionism and anti-Americanism,' Bush said. 'The Democrats concluded that this Administration lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves and so they attacked us."

[Salvation]

Go W!

[3IDVET]

IT'S ABOUT FRIGGIN TIME HE STARTED POPPING BACK...He should have done this eons ago...But no W.'s got to much class. I think what pushed him over was clinton sorry azz and his remarks after W. put his faith in him...Sorry...Remember guy's & gal's slick willy left 150 of America's Finest to die in a nasty city in Somalia all because he didn't want to make them think they were building up any armed presences there...I'm sorry, I know I harp on this allot but the Blood of 18 Ranger, Delta, and most of all Nightstalkers is on his and les Aspens hands, That almost included my Big Brother, and I was in Landstulh AMC with all the wounded from There, It was just FU ....That's why I'm hell about it on him...I know there are many other Terror attacks that you pin on his azz...Khobar towers, US Embassies, USS Cole Just to mention a few...

[CommieCutter]

"Is this from ScrappleFace or The Onion? He can't be growing a backbone now".

LOL!

[CommieCutter]

Even as smart as she is, she can let her emotions make her look the fool.

[freema]

: ) Aw, come on, gimme one.

[nutmeg]

BTTT

[Mia T]

BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE
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WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?
by Mia T, 8.18.05

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thanx to jla and Wolverine for the audio

DISCUSSION

"I remember exactly what happened. Bruce Lindsey said to me on the phone, 'My God, a second plane has hit the tower.' And I said, 'Bin Laden did this.' that's the first thing I said. He said, 'How can you be sure?' I said 'Because only bin Laden and the Iranians could set up the network to do this and they [the Iranians] wouldn't do it because they have a country in targets. Bin Laden did it.'

I thought that my virtual obsession with him was well placed and I was full of regret that I didn't get him."

bill clinton
Sunday, Sept 3, 2002
Larry King Live

"Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in '91 and he went to the Sudan.

We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden].

At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.

So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato. They didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."

bill clinton
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002
Clinton Reveals on Secret Audio:
I Nixed Bin Laden Extradition Offer

MAD hillary series #4
NANO-PRESIDENT
the danger of the unrelenting smallness
of bill + hillary clinton


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deconstructing clinton… "just because I could"


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FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME! 

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?


BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE


Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power
REASON 1: SHE HIRED JAMIE GORELICK


sandy berger haberdashery feint
(the specs, not the pants or the socks)


THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans


pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
WHY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA


The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)

 

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

 

[silverkor]

Why do we even give Clintoon face time????

[kstewskis]

WHY has it taken so long for him to grow a new pair, and tell it how it is?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Excellent!

[madison10]

Finally, he spoke up and defended himself! I didn't think we'd ever see it!

I believe our beyond saintly, patient, kind, President has finally had enough of the Liberal/Dem lying crap. Bravo, sir!

Where are the jello-spined members of his party? Just love how they back him up. /sarcasm off.

[FlashBack]

Maybe ole "W" was inspired by General Honeree (sp?)...

How would you say "Are you stuck on stupid?" in a Presidential way?

[Just A Nobody]

Trying to shove the tragedy into the realm of the Reagan Admin. is a low down and dirty cheap shot!

Oh, okay ... Reagan: 1-81 thru 12-88 ---------------

April 18, 1983 A suicide bomb attack by the Islamic Jihad on the United States Embassy in Beirut kills 63 and wounds another 120.

October 23, 1983 The Islamic Jihad sends two suicide truck bombers into the Marine Barracks and French Barracks in Beirut. The truck bomb crashing into the Marine barracks kills 241 while the French lose 58 in their attack.

November 15, 1983 A U.S. Naval Officer is assassinated by the November 17 terrorist group in Athens, Greece.

March 16, 1984 The Islamic Jihad kidnaps and kills U.S. Political Officer William Buckley in Beirut.

June 14, 1985 TWA flight 847 from Athens to Rome is hijacked by Hezbollah terrorists. 153 are held hostage for seventeen days. One passenger, a United States Navy sailor is killed by the terrorists.

October 7, 1985 The Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by four Palestine Liberation Front terrorists kills one U.S. citizen as his wheelchair bound body is dumped into the sea.

April 2, 1986 Palestinian terrorists calling themselves the Arab Revolutionary Cells detonates a bomb on TWA flight 840 as it approaches the Athens airport, opening up a hole in the cabin and sucking out four United States citizens, including one infant.

April 5, 1986 Libyan terrorists bomb a discotheque in Berlin, killing 3 U.S. servicemen and injuring 230 others.
***In response to this, the United States bombs Tripoli and Benghazi, attempting to kill the Libyan dictator Moammar al-Qadhafi.***

December 26, 1987 A Barcelona bar known as a U.S. military hang out is bombed, killing one U.S. citizen.

February 17, 1988 A U.S. Marine is kidnapped and killed by Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon.

April 14, 1988 The Organization of Jihad Brigades explodes a car bomb at a USO club in Naples, Italy killing one U.S. sailor.

December 21, 1988 Pan Am flight 103 is bombed by suspected Libyan terrorists and crashes in Lockerbie, Scotland killing 259 people.

GHW Bush: 1-89 through 12-92 ------------------------

April 21, 1989 A U.S. Army Colonel is assassinated in Manila, Philippines by the New Peoples Army

January 15, 1990 The Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement bombs the United States Embassy in Lima, Peru.

May 13, 1990 The New People's Army (NPA) kills two Air Force personnel near Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines.

Whatever you say. Don't let the facts get in your way.

[anglian]

Here's a searchable 9-11 report. http://demos.vivisimo.com/projects/911
Paragraph #658 (on page 139)
CIA officers described Massoud’s reaction when he heard that the United States wanted him only to capture and not kill Bin Ladin. One characterized Massoud’s body language as “a wince.” Schroen recalled Massoud’s response as “You guys are crazy—you haven’t changed a bit.” In Schroen’s opinion, the capture proviso inhibited Massoud and his forces from going after Bin Ladin

[Cougar66]

About time. Now someone needs to get in Bubba's face and Hellarys too and say it! Someday, some conservative will take these 2 on the way they need to be taken on. Treating these two clowns like royalty is a joke. How many terrorists and drug dealers did BJ pardon? He's a criminal. If he didnt look so sick I'd really rip into him.

[Cincinna]

I believe it is the first time he has placed the responsibility for 911 directly on the doorstep of the vile and lowly Clinton and the equally vile and lowly Jimmy Carter.
I believe Slick brought it on himself, by trashing the President 24/7.

[FarRockaway]

Amen, Amen.

Go W.

[Presto]

Right on, GWB. Right on.