[aristeides]

It's understandable that the CIA and the Clinton administration thought bin Laden could be managed if the embassy bombings, the OKC bombing, the first WTC bombing, and even perhaps the attack on the Cole were done for the convenience of -- and very likely at the bidding of -- the U.S. administration. And that would certainly explain why the interrogation of the bin Laden lieutenants being held by the Sudan was sabotaged by the bombing of the aspirin factory.

[a history buff]

This 'war' may well come to be known as the War of Saudi Succession. The Taliban were tied to a faction around Turki and the more nationalist 'anti-western' groups. Saudi princes tend to either read the Koran and the like, or worship Bachus, Venus & co. The former would prefer a more autonomous relationship with the West, the latter simply agree with Mel Brook that it's good to be the king. 9-11 almost certainly involved the two factions.

[Reactionary]

Exactly.

The same group has been at work before here in the United States.

You have to give Bubba credit, however. His modus operandi was clever indeed: gut intelligence gathering through "humanitarian" means by making it illegal to recruit anyone who is not in a leadership position, disassociate the government from regimes who have key intelligence by saying they sponsor terrorism.

And, of course, indirectly sponsor bin Laden by fabricating a humanitarian crisis in Kosovo so that the KLA can funnel money from sex slavery and drugs sales into the wonderful cause of Marxist/Islamic terrorism. All of this - and the export of key American technology to the Chinese, to Syria, to anyone who would donate a few million to the wonderful democrats.

And where are the terribly honest and forthright Republicans on all of this? They're forming coalitions with the sponsors of terrorism to ease our pain.

[glf]

I have an opinion of Clinton that is lower than whale shit. But if what you said proved to be true then I could not express my thoughts without the possibility of going to prison.