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]

Easy Paul...you don't want to be branded a racist.

You're talking about America's first black president.....

[Skybird]

Bill Clinton: It's all about me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me ...

[babylonian]

Gee, after terrorizing America for eight years, he should be a terrorism expert.

[jws3sticks]

Bill Clintoon is on the ground below this balcony shot.

[snowtigger]

WHO CARES???

[BeAChooser]

"We must do more to reduce the pool of potential terrorists."

I agree. So let's exhume and autopsy the body of Ron Brown. And if he was shot (as the pathologists and evidence suggest), put Clinton in jail FOR LIFE.

[geaux]

His concious must really be bothering him....

You *must* be kidding.

[Paul Atreides]

Toni Morrison only labeled him the first black president while viewing his overused, skanky willie while down on her knees. What she thought was the Monica cigar dangling out of his fly was actually his bent Algore.

[Billie]

Will he EVER just shut up?

[Billie]

Sit down, shut up, go away, far away, (clinton, not you, bert!)

[Mia T]

Bill Clinton Talks on Terrorism

By Jennifer Loven
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2001; 10:51 p.m. EDT

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."...

© Copyright 2001 The Associated Press

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compulsive clinton CYA-ing CONTINUES

Because the frequency and intensity of compulsive CYA maneuvers by clinton and his/her gang are increasing in direct proportion to the increasing frequency and intensity of editorial comment fingering clinton for 9-11, I suspect compulsive clinton CYA-ing will soon reach critical mass.

At that historic, civilization-sparing moment, Sandy Berger (along with his smarmy revisionism) will implode by virtue of one-too-many pressure-deflating "uhs"...taking the two inept, corrupt, cowardly, self-serving Boss-Dweeb dullards down with him.

As Martha Stewart might say, this is a good thing...surprisingly, for the atavistic clintons as well as for advanced civilization.

• clinton CYA-ing clearly does precious little to cover the collective clinton posterior -- (or anterior, for that matter -- if we contemplate the profound private clinton -- er -- defects).
• clearly, clinton CYA-ing is compromising Bush's brilliant anti-terror campaign. (Perhaps compromising Bush is precisely what clinton has in mind, eh?...You might recall that clinton has a history of trashing other presidents in an effort to hoist his own sorry, putrified heft to marginally acceptable level.)

Ironically, this latest clintonoid tactic has only served to congeal the already-established clinton legacy of egomania, depravity and failure. You might say that the clintons have served up their legacy poached, cold and coated with assss...pic.

 

[CWOJackson]

"Former President Clinton on Tuesday cited at least 15 terrorist attacks thwarted during his administration..."

Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.

[SuziQ]

Was this 'conversation' with the Serpenthead, James Carville? I was cruising the channels today and saw the two of them; couldn't change the channel fast enough!