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US missed three chances to seize Bin Laden
The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 01/06/2002

Posted on 01/05/2002 3:11:41 PM PST by Pokey78

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1 posted on 01/05/2002 3:11:41 PM PST by Pokey78
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To: summer, JohnHuang2; Sabertooth; Howlin
Ping.
2 posted on 01/05/2002 3:14:51 PM PST by Pokey78
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3 posted on 01/05/2002 3:17:52 PM PST by dennisw
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They got it out a little early; apparently Andrew Sullivan heard a "good" rumor!
4 posted on 01/05/2002 3:18:03 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Pokey78
Sorry but I don't trust anything that isn't in the NY Times, the Washington Post, or on one of the three major network newscasts. They say that everyone else is part of a vast right-wing conspiracy and I have no reason to doubt their honesty.

And, Bill Clinton was a GREAT President. We're not likely to see his type again.




/sarcasm

5 posted on 01/05/2002 3:19:53 PM PST by RobFromGa
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To: Pokey78; Victoria Delsoul; harpseal; Travis McGee; susangirl; Snow Bunny; veronica; onyx...
(((ping))))


6 posted on 01/05/2002 3:20:05 PM PST by Sabertooth
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To: dennisw
I'm sure you realize that I think That Awful Man is the worst thing America ever allowed to be done to herself.

No matter how low you go with either of the clintons, or their pack of enablers, there is always yet another depth to be sunk to....

There's no bottom there--

7 posted on 01/05/2002 3:21:22 PM PST by backhoe
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Lost opportunities. There's a euphemism for you. But was it incompetence or blackmail...?
8 posted on 01/05/2002 3:21:23 PM PST by mewzilla
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To: backhoe
I saw GWBush's speech tonite. It's so refreshing when you can watch your president on TV without feeling sick and fearful for this nation! The White House is now a TRAITOR FREE ZONE!
9 posted on 01/05/2002 3:24:15 PM PST by dennisw
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It WAS nice, wasn't it?
10 posted on 01/05/2002 3:25:05 PM PST by Howlin
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Lost opportunities, lost lives, means nothing to Clinton and his supporters. How could anybody expect him to worry about a little thing like Osama when he had really important business to take care of, he was booked solid with fundraisers.
11 posted on 01/05/2002 3:26:40 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: Sabertooth
Clinton was too busy arranging how to get his next hummer to take time out to arrange the elimination of the world's worst terrorist.
12 posted on 01/05/2002 3:27:23 PM PST by True Capitalist
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13 posted on 01/05/2002 3:27:26 PM PST by dstalley
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To: Pokey78
So all this was just a "screw up"? I used to think that LBJ was the worst president we've ever had for his ability to lie to congress to widen a war he never intended to win - thereby sending tens of thousands of American boys to their deaths. Now we see the blood of the nearly 3,000 on on 9/11 appears to be on the hands of the former president. He's fast becoming my first choice for worst ever in our history.
14 posted on 01/05/2002 3:27:28 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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YES! What a difference a year makes. With a new fresh bold Prez and traitor42xClinton kicked to the curb!
15 posted on 01/05/2002 3:28:01 PM PST by dennisw
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"White House is now a TRAITOR-FREE-ZONE!" Yeah, dennisw!

JH2 -- quote of the day by dennisw.?

16 posted on 01/05/2002 3:28:02 PM PST by onyx
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A former senior White House source said: "There simply was not the evidence to prosecute Osama Bin Laden. He could not be indicted, so it would serve no purpose for him to have been brought into US custody.

Tell that to the families who lost loved ones on 09-11.

17 posted on 01/05/2002 3:28:24 PM PST by mware
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To: RobFromGa
Yea, and HE has the blood of over 3000 people on his hands.
18 posted on 01/05/2002 3:28:54 PM PST by SolitaryMan
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To: Pokey78
They say that the clear focus of American policy was to discourage the state sponsorship of terrorism. So persuading Khartoum to expel Bin Laden was in itself counted as a clear victory. The administration was "delighted".

This has to be THE dumbest thing I've ever read. What kind of "victory" is it to have made the liver-lipped bastard pick up and move to another country? Did it hurt his terrorist operations? Or did it just send him to a country that, unlike Sudan, wouldn't monitor him and wouldn't offer his sorry ass to the U.S.?

Clinton is reported to have admitted how things went wrong in Sudan at a private dinner at a Manhattan restaurant shortly after September 11 last year. According to a witness, Clinton told a dinner companion that the decision to let Bin Laden go was probably "the biggest mistake of my presidency".

Once again, it's all about him. Clinton is perhaps the only person in this country to look at the devastation of 9/11 and be upset that there was no way to manipulate it to burnish his "legacy."

19 posted on 01/05/2002 3:30:34 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
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20 posted on 01/05/2002 3:31:43 PM PST by summer
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