President Bush NEVER had Osama in the sights like this.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4549030
Osama bin Laden: missed opportunities
Posted on 09/22/2006 7:08:06 PM PDT by BlueJ7
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4549030
Osama bin Laden: missed opportunities
Posted by Howlin to Petronski
On News/Activism 09/22/2006 9:39:40 PM EDT · 348 of 437
Just for starters:
Clinton: Let's talk about it. I will answer all those things on the merits, but first I want to talk about the context in which this arises. I'm being asked this on the FOX network.
Ah, because you NEVER get asked IN DEPTH questions by all your pals in the freaking MEDIA.
ABC just had a right-wing conservative running their little pathway to 9/11, falsely claiming it was based on the 9/11 commission report with three things asserted against me directly contradictory to the 9/11 commission report.
Which they EDITED OUT!!!
And I think it's very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say I didn't do enough claim that I was too obsessed with bin Laden.
Name one; who said that, you damn liar.
All of President Bush's neo-cons that I was too obsessed with bin Laden
Again, who?
they had no meetings on bin Laden for nine months after I left office.
That is an out and out lie.
All the right wingers who now say I didn't do enough, said I did too much, the same people.
Names. Let's have them, dirtball.
They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day after we were involved in Black Hawk Down and I refused to do it and stayed six months and had an orderly transfer to the United Nations.
Would love to hear at least this level of journalistic integrity in asking questions regarding interviews with Hillary Clinton.
Can I get an Amen to that?
To me Bubba comes off as a lying sack of Crap. No way he authorised a team to kill Bin Laden.
Let's do just that!
See my post above!
Now if you want to criticize me for one thing, you can criticize me for this: after the Cole, I had battle plans drawn to go into Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban and launch a full-scale attack search for bin Laden.
I wish for just ONE MINUTE Jim Robinson would let us use profanity.
There was NO "battle plan" for the USS Cole!
He is parsing again; notice Wallace asked him about Somlia and he tried to narrow it to Black Hawk down; and he most certainly did END THE MISSION the very next day!
Miniter: In October 2000, al Qaeda bombed the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen. Seventeen sailors were killed in the blast. The USS Cole was almost sunk. In any ordinary administration, this would have been considered an act of war. After all, America entered the Spanish-American war and World War I when our ships were attacked.
Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke had ordered his staff to review existing intelligence in relation to the bombing of the USS Cole. After that review, he and Michael Sheehan, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, were convinced it was the work of Osama bin Laden. The Pentagon had on-the-shelf, regularly updated and detailed strike plans for bin Laden's training camps and strongholds in Afghanistan.
At a meeting with Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Attorney General Janet Reno, and other staffers, Clarke was the only one in favor of retaliation against bin Laden. Reno thought retaliation might violate international law and was therefore against it. Tenet wanted to more definitive proof that bin Laden was behind the attack, although he personally thought he was. Albright was concerned about the reaction of world opinion to a retaliation against Muslims, and the impact it would have in the final days of the Clinton Middle East peace process. Cohen, according to Clarke, did not consider the Cole attack "sufficient provocation" for a military retaliation. Michael Sheehan was particularly surprised that the Pentagon did not want to act. He told Clarke: "What's it going to take to get them to hit al Qaeda in Afghanistan? Does al Qaeda have to attack the Pentagon?"
Instead of destroying bin Laden's terrorist infrastructure and capabilities, President Clinton phoned twice phoned the president of Yemen demanding better cooperation between the FBI and the Yemeni security services. If Clarke's plan had been implemented, al Qaeda's infrastructure would have been demolished and bin Laden might well have been killed. Sept. 11, 2001 might have been just another sunny day.
****They were the PENTAGON'S plans, not his 'battle plan.'
What a damn liar.
Bubba shit head is a piss ant, move on, move to some country that allows older men to shove cigars around under aged girls.
This turd doesnt even wamnt the Bush administration to be able to interrogate prisoners and he is claiming he had a team to kill Bin Laden. I thought the CIA didnt do wet jobs.
Clinton is half senile, half bent on destroying the Dim Rats in the next election, to preserve the chances of Hillary and get a place in a White House filled with seventy two virgin interns...
bookmarking
I'll bet you've got some bookmarks that would refute what this POS is claiming.
All you say is right, and I think it is great Wallace asked him enough things to expose further what a hole this guy was.
Add that he gave China missile guidance and rocket technology to expose all our cities to Chinese nukes and you have perhaps the worst President of all time.
Had Carter not encouraged the birth of radical Islam with the 444 day hostage debacle, Clinton would win worst President hands down.
Might be a tie!
Only half bent?
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