Posted on 04/11/2006 4:12:31 PM PDT by wagglebee
I'm still waiting for the MSM to do a major story/documentary on why we did not accept Osama when he was offerred by Sudan during the Clinton years.
I heard he was living in Casablanca selling rugs.
If Osama's in a jar of formaldehyde somewhere in the Pentagon that's fine with me...
That will air right after the study of how Vince Foster died.
I agree with you to a point, but I think that BJ, Hitlery and their minions were primarily interested in power and money, harming or helping America was not really a consideration. I do believe that the Peanut Farmer was overtly trying to destroy America.
The minimal coverage that has been given to this issue quotes Clinton as saying (paraphrasing here as I do not have the exact quote), "He did not commit any crimes against the US, so we didn't accept him." Of course, Clinton had to ignore the 1993 WTC attack to make that shameless and outrageous comment.
So why has no one (even some straight-shooters like FOX, Ollie North, Brit Hume, etc.) not done a full, complete story on this occurrence--as a way of highlighting Slick's TRUE LEGACY, and the national security mess that he left President Bush to clean up?
Only TWO TIMES IN TWO YEARS? Heck, he met Monica more times than that in a week!!!!
Clearly, Clarke saved Bin Ladin's life. And he saved the lives of Bin Ladin's enablers. And he went on to blow classified information and ruin a classified surveillance operation when he informed UAE that we were watching them.
Clarke should be in jail for that one.
exactly
I SALUTE YOU AND SUPPORT YOUR EFFORTS IF YOU COULD DO THAT!!
Here was my thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602934/posts
Pages 129-131 discuss how Slick's unavailability (who knows what he was doing) for an hour and his indecision allowed Bid Laden to escape in 1998 when Sandy Berger and Slick had Osama pinpointed during a two-hour window in which they could have taken Osama out. This was another chance--in addition to the Sudanese offer.
Buzz also has another good book out (RECKLESS DISREGARD) describing his time in the Clinton administration.
I agree that Clarke was most directly involved in this series of blunders, but there can be no doubt that Sandy Burglar and Bill Clinton were fully briefed and were most certainly the ones blocking any action that might affect ties with the UAE. Slick Willie was not thinking so much about the F-16 deal (an appalling act of misjudgment in itself, to let an Islamo-fascist state have our very latest radar and electronics, even if they did pay for the Block 60 upgrades).
I'm sure that Slick was thinking more about the millions he could rake in for his "library" (monument to onanism) and the future $300,000 "speaker fees" he could command from the UAE if he did nothing to rile them up. Why kill Bin Laden when it might affect his personal bottom line?????
Should be HANGED.
...Not to disagree with the thrust of your post, though,
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