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"By the end of Clinton's first year, al-Qa'ida had apparently attacked twice. Al-Qa'ida attacks would continue for every one of the Clinton years, climbing in lethality.

In 1994, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (who would later plan the 9/11 attacks) launched Operation Bojinka to down 11 planes simultaneously over the Pacific, killing about 3000 people. A sharp-eyed Filipina police officer foiled the plot. The sole American response: increased law-enforcement co-operation with the Philippines.

In 1995, al-Qa'ida detonated a 100kg car bomb outside the US military's Office of the Program Manager in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing five Americans and wounding 60 more. The FBI was sent in.

In 1996, al-Qa'ida bombed the barracks of American pilots patrolling the "no-fly zones" over Iraq, killing 19. Again, the FBI went in.

In 1997, bin Laden repeatedly declared war on the Western world. In February 1997, bin Laden told an Arab television network: "If someone can kill an American soldier, it is better than wasting time on other matters." Clinton did not respond.

In 1998, al-Qa'ida simultaneously attacked US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people including 12 American diplomats. The FBI team arrived within days. But this time the law enforcement did not seem sufficient. Thirteen days after the attacks, Clinton ordered cruise-missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan. Here Clinton's critics are wrong: the president was right to retaliate, irrespective of the Monica Lewinsky case. "

1 posted on 09/29/2006 5:47:45 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

Narcisitic rage. My ex wife was a narcisist. I had to endure many such rages before I left her.


2 posted on 09/29/2006 5:50:25 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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Do we really want to go back to the time when we ignored the attacks on our nation? We know that the RATs are more concerned about civil rights for al-qaeda than in protecting the American people.

This bumper sticker courtesy of Rush Limbaugh sums it up. I know RATs, the truth hurts.

4 posted on 09/29/2006 5:52:38 AM PDT by AdvisorB
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To: kellynla

Much as I like and respect the Aussies, what they think about U.S. policy is pretty much irrelevant! But you have to dig deep to find an analysis like this in the MSM.


5 posted on 09/29/2006 5:55:03 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help m)
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To: kellynla
Moral of the story:
Don't elect a president whose wife intends to run for the presidency. His allegiance will be to HER, and NOT to those he has sworn to protect.

Buying two presidents for the price of one, was a fatal mistake.

6 posted on 09/29/2006 5:58:34 AM PDT by syriacus (Don't elect a president whose wife intends to run for the presidency. His allegiance will be to HER.)
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Every Bush policy that arouses the ire of the anti-war set - the Patriot Act, renditions,

Without renditions, how does the left think Clinton was going to bring Bin Laden to trial?
7 posted on 09/29/2006 6:00:12 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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Clinton refused to meet his first CIA director for two years

I didn't know this but I have read that Clinton only met with his National Security Advisor once a month. This is telling as to how important security was to Clinton. BTW, Bush meets with his National Security Advisor every day!

9 posted on 09/29/2006 6:02:39 AM PDT by libertylover (If it's good and decent, you can be sure the Democrat Party leaders are against it.)
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I heard someone theorize on the radio that it's possible Bill did it so Hillary would have a reason to never appear on Fox and face questions.


10 posted on 09/29/2006 6:02:52 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: kellynla
By the end of Clinton's first year, al-Qa'ida had apparently attacked twice.
Al-Qa'ida attacks would continue for every one of the Clinton years, climbing in lethality.


12 posted on 09/29/2006 6:16:15 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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One thing for certain, Bill would never unload on Hillary like that ...she would have jerked his leash but good.


15 posted on 09/29/2006 6:51:13 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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"...Here Clinton's critics are wrong: the president was right to retaliate, irrespective of the Monica Lewinsky case. "

Bombing Sudan's aspirin factory was not an effective response to anything.
17 posted on 09/29/2006 7:15:26 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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"So it is vital that this debate be honest, but so far it hasn't been."

The Left abandoned honesty--viz. truth for its own sake--long ago.

The Left includes its Political Machine, i.e. the Democrat Party, and its Propaganda Machine, i.e. the "Mainstream Newsmedia", as well as academia, Hollywood, the Leftist enclaves, et al.

This is the basic failure and the basic immorality of the Left--its scorn of truth and its embrace of mendacity as a means of furthering its agenda. In the final analysis, the agenda of the Left is greed for power.

The "new morality" of the Left is nothing more than greed for power and scorn for truth because it interferes with the greed for power, i.e. the Leftist agenda.

18 posted on 09/29/2006 7:17:36 AM PDT by Savage Beast ( 9/11 was never repeated thanks to President George W. Bush.)
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Where Clinton and Bush policies overlap - air attacks on terrorist infrastructure, secret presidential orders to kill terrorists, intelligence sharing with allies, seizure of terrorist bank accounts, using police to arrest suspected terrorists - there is little friction.

When did Clinton explicitly authorize the killing of Bin Ladin? Before the 1998 cruise missile attack?

21 posted on 09/29/2006 8:44:55 AM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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THE ABOVE MASS MURDER OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT AMERICANS WAS THE INHERITANCE OF 8 YEARS UNDER THE CLINTOONS.


22 posted on 09/29/2006 8:48:18 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic lies/wet dreams posing as news.)
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To: kellynla

bttt


27 posted on 11/05/2006 2:49:28 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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