Posted on 05/26/2002 11:04:50 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Oklahoma Sen. Don Nickles, the number two Republican in the Senate, said Saturday that he was "furious" at his colleague, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, over comments she made last week suggesting that President Bush could have prevented the 9-11 attacks.
Then, in a warning to Clinton and other Democrats who have focused exclusively on 9-11 intelligence failures during President Bush's first eight months in office, Nickles added, "If we're going to have an investigation, we should have an investigation of why we didn't respond strongly to previous acts of terror."
"I'm pretty critical of the previous administration," the leading Republican explained during a lengthy interview with his homestate newspaper, the Oklahoman. "They dropped the ball in the war on terrorism. They never engaged in the war on terrorism."
Nickles has already begun laying the groundwork for a Clinton-9-11 terror probe, showing the newspaper prepared charts listing five terrorist attacks on the U.S. during the Clinton administration, not counting the Oklahoma City bombing.
Juxtaposed with the charts' graphics, the Oklahoma conservative has inserted quotes from President Clinton promising a strong and forceful response. But, said Nickles, those promises were never followed by effective action.
The Republican leader complained that U.S. facilities at home and abroad were attacked repeatedly during the Clinton years but, "we didn't do anything about it."
He cited the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, the 1996 Khobar Towers military barracks bombing and the attack two years ago on the U.S.S. Cole.
In light of the Clinton administration's failed record on terrorism, Nickles said that Mrs. Clinton's attack on President Bush was "very inappropriate."
The following collection of news reports point toward the Clinton cover-up of Terrorist Acts against the US....rather than deal with the real threats that led to 9/11 the Clinton Administration and main stream media deceived the American public into thinking that the real threat in the 90's was talk radio,conservatives,militia and Christians.
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WHAT?? If it wasn't for them violating the Branch Dividians right to freedom of religion, the OKC bombing would have never happened!!! The Clinton Administration never investigated terrorist bombings because terrorists don't investigate their own!
That's right. They are playing for the cameras and nothing more. IF they were serious, then an investigation into Filegate would already be underway.
Ditto, the above, Wheezer. Time to dust off some of those investigations into pardons, stolen WH property etc. Like our international enemies, they only view the "new tone" as weakness. What a disgusting piece of work that woman is - excuse me, that "female" is.
They'd also be investigating Chinagate, Pardongate, and a half dozen other -gates, too. But they know the media will label them scandalmongers, so the Repubs are scared to do anything. The Repubs let the media publicly flog them for 8 years while Klinton laughed and openly accepted bribes for anything and everything including nuclear technology and pardons.
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That's the scripture I use to reassure myself that eventually they will get their's.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
And ... I don't recall Daschle going on national TV and stating Clinton was getting reports that Daschle was not getting. Hmmmmm?
And ... I don't recall Daschle going on Meet the Depressed and accusing Clinton of lying about what he knew about these incidents? Hmmmm?
And ... I don't recall Daschle demanding any "commission" to investigate these mirad of incidents? Hmmmm?
Me thinks they protesteth tooooooo much!!!!!
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