EIGHT YEARS OF NEGLECT BY SCUMBAG LED TO 9-11-01

Doug, you're dealing with posters who are unable to connect the dots. The only response to Campion's post # 29, which contains an explanation that a third grader should be able to comprehend, was another barrage of insults. These are probably the same people who think that the President "runs the country", who participate in the presidential job approval polls but have no idea what the President's job consists of, and who are convinced that the current economic downturn has been caused by Bush. The best you'll be able to get out of them is that the 9/11 attack was Bush's fault, why, because he was "running the country" at the time. Remember, any halfwit can buy himself a computah and start posting his half-baked opinions.

Thank you both for your thoughtful posts on this thread.

FROM THE BOSTON GLOBE:

So it wasn't surprising that President Clinton's words, back in August 1998, tumbled forth with uncommon fury. ''No matter how long it takes,'' he vowed, ''or where it takes us, we will pursue terrorists until the cases are solved and justice is done.''

Now, one infamous day and more than 6,000 deaths later, some in the capital are pointedly, though quietly, critical of Clinton's failure to elevate his actions toward his lofty rhetoric. Some wonder whether he wasn't distracted by the legal and political quagmire of the Monica S. Lewinsky case. And even former Clinton aides now regret that the battle with bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organization was never fully joined.

''Clearly, not enough was done,'' said Jamie Gorelick, a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration. ''We should have caught this. Why this happened, I don't know. Responsibilities were given out. Resources were given. Authorities existed. We should have prevented this.''

Said Nancy Soderberg, a former senior aide in Clinton's National Security Council, ''In hindsight, it wasn't enough, and anyone involved in policy would have to admit that.''

Clinton's solution, just three weeks after the twin embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, was to fire some 75 cruise missiles at terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and a suspected nerve gas factory in Sudan.

Sudanese officials and the factory's owner have denied that the installation had anything to do with bin Laden or chemical weapons, and the company has sued the United States. Bin Laden escaped unharmed, only to have an agent tell an Arab newspaper, ''The battle has not yet started.''

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