Posted on 09/27/2006 11:49:52 AM PDT by Enchante
...or when he shakes that finger...
Clinton might have been a better President, if he didn't need to worry about Hillary's career.
He was too fixated on the future....
He was obsessing about avoiding controversy, so that Hillary could be elected the first female President.
I think Hillary's plans to be president handicapped Clinton.
We should never elect a president who is married to someone who wants to be president in the future.
There is too great a risk that the President will act out of loyalty to his spouse's ambitions, rather than act out of loyalty to his fellow countrymen.
Now fast forward to Hillary a few days ago:
"I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled `Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside United States,' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team," Hillary Clinton said. She was referring to a briefing Bush got a month before Sept. 11.
OOPS, I guess Clinton WAS shown a daily briefing just about like that.
We absolutely do .... will anyone put this stuff out there and push it? I swear they come here and use our research anyway.
BTTT
"But the 9/11 commission's executive director (I'm sure a Dem) did say the Clinton administration did have an "energetic response" to the threat."
I guess oral sex must be the "energetic response" they speak of?!
LLS
Yup, the Clintonistas had ample warnings and did squat. Then they turned the 9/11 Omission-Commission into a bad joke with partisan hacks like Ben Veniste and Gorelick controlling the process and output. It's amazing that any real info got through at all....
I have been posting this for two days, and NOT one response! Freepers need to OPEN THEIR EYES!!!
LLS
Where's Dick Clarke to answer the questions whether or not there was a plan handed to President Bush? There is a tape of him saying there wasn't one, but then the Libs have a document in his name. They say the document was delivered 5 days after the start of the President term. Any one have an answer? Are the Libs handing out another false document?
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/clintlon.htm
(snip)
But senior military officers said much more could have been done. Gen Henry Shelton, who recently retired as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, was adamantly opposed to Mr Clinton's preferred option of sending in Delta Force, which he considered naive.
"Absolutely nothing prevented us from running the kind of operation we're running now, if there had been a commitment to do that," he said.
Although Mr Clinton accepted that the Taliban regime was inextricably linked to bin Laden's al-Qa'eda network, he refused to consider any military action against it. Envoys were twice despatched to Afghanistan to deliver warnings to the Taliban.
The Clinton administration believed that these would be interpreted as ultimatums similar to that subsequently outlined by President Bush before Congress on Sept 20.
However, Mr Clinton's national security team was reluctant to move beyond rhetoric. "There were verbal scoldings but that was about it," said Gen Shelton. "When discussions came up of what are we going to do, the military focus stayed on Osama bin Laden himself and his outfit."
Mr Clinton authorised the assassination of the al-Qa'eda leader and his lieutenants but would not agree to any operation that could have killed women and children around bin Laden.
Is there a time limit on how long she'll get SS protection?
Nope. They are the last two to have it until the end of time. Even Chelsea.
wasn't it Clinton that signed an EO about ending the SS ??
Hugh Shelton said that? I am shocked.......and I am not kidding.
I thought he was pro-Clinton -- and so does everybody here in NC: at one NC State basketball game he was introduced and roundly booed!
I've been posting the same damn thing! (Whine) Nobody's listening to us, dang it!
What's wrong with this picture?
Chelsea Clinton gets SS protection for life.
President George W. Bush get SS protection for 10 years only.
"I thought he was pro-Clinton "
IIRC .. he was an advisor for Kerry during the 2004 election
I found this to .. it's been a while since I've looked through my bookmarks
ON CLINTON'S WATCH: Feds Nixed Deal for Plane Plot Tipoff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1465752/posts
I feel like a metric bolt in a bin of standard nuts. ;-)
LLS
Read both PDBs and it's clear the August 2001 one was mainly a summary of the earlier 1998 PDB (there is no record that the outgoing Clinton WH briefed the incoming Bush people about it, and this PDB is the first time they were apprised of some or most of the intelligence). Of course we should all remember the existance of the classified August 2001 PDB was leaked in the spring of 2002 for one aim only, and it was not to share real information but to get the "Bush Knew" idea rolling.
Link to August 2001 PDB:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2285-2004Apr10?language=printer
Indefinite. However, there is now a law that makes future SS protection for Presidents and family to last 10 years. This law does not effect Hillary.
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