Bill Clinton Talks on Terrorism

(AP) ^ | October 9, 2001, 10:51 PM EDT | By JENNIFER LOVEN

[Dallas]

WASHINGTON -- Former President Clinton on Tuesday cited at least 15 terrorist attacks thwarted during his administration and said the keys to preventing others are supporting President Bush's current efforts and doing "more to reduce the pool of potential terrorists."

"Though neither I nor anyone can tell you there will not be another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, it will be all right," Clinton told a packed Kennedy Center concert hall. "They still can't win unless we give them permission. We are not about to give them permission."

Clinton also confirmed a failed U.S. attempt in 1996 to have Osama bin Laden arrested in Sudan and placed in Saudi Arabian custody and a CIA-sponsored plan to have Pakistani commandos hunt him down in 1999, abandoned after a military coup there.

Bin Laden is the prime suspect in last month's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

Clinton said bin Laden's network will be difficult to disable.

"He's smart, he's rich, he's ruthless, bold," Clinton said. "What bin Laden is good at is finding the seams in our defenses."

Clinton ticked off a list of thwarted terrorist attacks, including plans to bomb the Holland Tunnel connecting New York City and New Jersey and a flight from Los Angeles to the Philippines and to kill the pope. He said that during the celebrations marking the turn of the century, a dozen terrorist plots were stopped, including planned attacks in the northeastern and northwestern United States, at the Los Angeles airport, a hotel in Jordan and a Christian holy site in the Middle East.

"If we take down barriers, collapse differences, spread knowledge, we are inevitably vulnerable here in ways we never were before," Clinton said.

To combat that reality, Clinton said Bush's fight against terrorism on military, economic, legal and diplomatic fronts is key.

But it is also necessary to work to alleviate poverty and oppression that creates disaffected people ripe for terrorists' arguments. That should include increased debt relief for poor nations, AIDS-fighting funds and democracy-promoting efforts, Clinton said.

"Terrorists ... feel they can recruit among the dispossessed," Clinton said. "We must do more to reduce the pool of potential terrorists."

[Dallas]

Typical Liberal.....

He thinks we can "spend" our way out of this.

The poor disinfranchised third-worlders are only doing this because they're poor.......

Shame on us Americans for not sharing more of our wealth........

[Fred Mertz]

Dogpatch has spoken again. Barf!

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

continued......I believe that Charlie Trie and James Riady were motivated by nothing but patriotism for their adopted country.

I believed Vice President Gore when he said that he had made dunning calls to political contributors "on a few occasions" from his White House office, and I believed him when he said that, actually, "a few" meant 46. I believe in no controlling legal authority.......

I believe Bruce Babbitt when he says that the $286,000 contributed to the DNC by Indian tribes opposed to granting a casino license to rival tribes had nothing to do with his denial of the license. I believed the secretary when he said that he had not been instructed in this matter by then-White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. I believed him when he said later that he had told lobbyist and friend Paul Eckstein that Ickes had told him to move on the casino decision, but that he had been lying to Eckstein. I agree with the secretary that it is an outrage that anyone would question his integrity.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Well Bill, you did prove that sucka$$ doesn't work, so now we are going to test the theory of KICK a$$! Not because the Commander-in Chief has to cover his own selfish a$$ as always was the case during your twisted tenure, but to save the a$$ of the entire free world from Muslim Fundamentalist terrorist horse's a$$e$.

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

........I believe in the Clinton Standard of adherence to the nation's campaign finance and bribery laws, enunciated by the president on March 7, 1997: "I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I had changed government policy solely because of a contribution." I note with approval the use of the word "evidence" and also the use of the word "solely." I believe that it is proper to change government policy to address the concerns of people who have given the president money, as long as nobody can find evidence of this being the sole reason.

[Jean S]

LOL! You're on a roll, keep it up!

[Dallas]

Lest we forget, he almost dismantled our military..

[classygreeneyedblonde]

Please just STOP!!!!!!!!!!! GO AWAY!!!!!!!! His concious must really be bothering him....

[classygreeneyedblonde]

Another CFR member

[Dallas]

He's speaking to a pack of brain-dead elitist at the Kennedy Center, all of whom agree with him.

Nuff said....

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

.......I believe the president has lived up to his promise to preside over the most ethical administration in American history. I believe that indicted former agriculture secretary Mike Espy did not accept $35,000 in illegal favors from Tyson Foods and other regulated businesses. I believe that indicted former housing secretary Henry Cisneros did not lie to the FBI and tell others to lie to cover up $250,000 in blackmail payments to his former mistress. I believe that convicted former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell was not involved in the obstruction of justice when the president's minions arranged for Hubbell to receive $400,000 in sweetheart consulting deals at a time when he was reneging on his promise to cooperate with Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation........

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

.......I believe Paula Jones is a cheap tramp who was asking for it. I believe Kathleen Willey is a cheap tramp who was asking for it. I believe Monica Lewinsky is a cheap tramp who was asking for it.

I believe Lewinsky was fantasizing in her 20 hours of taped conversation in which she reportedly detailed her sexual relationship with the president and begged Linda Tripp to join her in lying about the relationship. I believe that any gifts, correspondence, telephone calls and the 37 post-employment White House visits that may have passed between Lewinsky and the president are evidence only of a platonic relationship; such innocent intimate friendships are quite common between middle-aged married men and young single women, and also between presidents of the United States and White House interns.......

[F.J. Mitchell]

#27: Yeah, Bill always remembered to reward his enablers.

[Dallas]

I think in order to have a conscience, one must have a soul...

I really don't think he has either...

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

.....I see nothing suspicious in the report that the president's intimate, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed but before she filed an affidavit saying she had not had sex with the president. Nor do I read anything into the fact that the ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, visited Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a job. I believe the instructions Lewinsky gave Tripp informing her on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter simply wrote themselves........

[AmericanCheeseFood]

I fear if I post anything it will be deemed violent or profane .

But I must be me .

CLINTON MAKES ME SO F**KING ILL ! WHEN WILL SOMEONE RIP OUT HIS FREAKING TONGUE ! GAWD !

Cheese .

[The Swampfox]

Dear Willie,
Don't go away mad.
JUST GO AWAY!

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

Author: Michael Kelly. Posted here

[Slyfox]

Former President Clinton

I shall never, ever get tired of reading that.