TIME MAG CHARGES: BUSH ADMIN 'DELAYED' CLINTON PLAN TO ATTACK AL QAEDA

Drudge Report ^ | 8/4/02

[Brian Mosely]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,333835,00.html

[demlosers]

I'm asking this question without reading the article: Why didn't Clinton implement his own plan, he certainly had time to attack al Qaeda?

[tomahawk]

Time creating a story designed to make Clinton look good. Why didn't Clinton take action against Al Qaeda, except for the cruise missile strike in Afghanistan, from '98 to '00, after the Embassy bombings? Towards the end of Clinton's term, some staffer drew up a report and recommendations that we go after Al Qaeda, and it wasn't implemented immediately. Actually, it was evaluated and improved upon. This is clear leftist spin to make Bush look inept, when it was Clinton that cleary was in dealing with the Al Qaeda threat.

[07055]

But Berger and the principals decided to shelve the plan and let the next administration take it up. With less than a month left in office, they did not think it appropriate to launch a major initiative against Osama bin Laden.

Of course not. During its last month, the Clinton administration was too busy selling pardons and issuing executive orders to focus on terrorism.

Besides, Monica wasn't scheduled to testify before the grand jury so there was no need to fire any more cruise missles at Bin Laden.

[backhoe]

Bush and Clinton and 911- some facts...

[Brian Mosely]

What are you? A mind reader?...this thought was going through my head as well...

[Lancey Howard]

Predator drone—the best possible source of real intelligence on what was happening in the terror camps—should be sent to fly over Afghanistan. So the Predator sat idle from October 2000 until after Sept. 11, TIME reports.

Well, there you have it - - if only Bush had listened to Clinton and sent that Predator drone to take a peek at the terror camps, 9/11 would never have happened. We would have gone straight from 9/10 to 9/12.

TIME Magazine, LOFL!!!
How much does the DNC fork over to prop up that pathetic dentist's office throw-away?

[demlosers]

What are you? A mind reader?...this thought was going through my head as well...

I wish.
I'd say it was the obvious question one asks after reading the headline.

[norton]

Ah yes;

History in the writing.

First formal entry in the "Clinton would have done it better" revision of the past two years.

Forget the aspirin factories and the lost deals to extradite Osama,
Forget the pandering and convenient timing of every military move made under Clinton,
Forget Somalia and Kosovo...

Bill had the answer to Osama Ben Laden, Bill handed the plan free to GWB.
Then, openly partisan Republicans waited too long to use it...
But, when they finally did use it, boy-howdy, worked like a charm.

Our grand kids will be thanking old Bill, yessir, sure they will.

[Afronaut]

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BLAH BLAH BLAH....

Shut up already!

Bush plays golf while Americans are Slaughtered in Israel. TODAY!! I cannot take the: ClintonClintonClintonClinton
ClintonClintonClintonClintonClinton dribble.

Serves no purpose. Concentrate on the present.

When is our leader meeting with Pres. Fox to give away MY country?
I could care less about the baffoon Clinton. He is like a bad ex-wife.

[JZoback]

That made it politically impossible for Clinton to strike—especially given the upcoming election and his own lack of credibility on national security. "

Time admits it in a backhanded way that the ChiCom election scandals had conpromised our ability to defend ourselves.

[jigsaw]

What are you? A mind reader?

Personally, I'd trust a mind reader before a Time reader.

I once received a gift subscription for Time from a wonderful uncle of mine. Despite the risk of insulting him, I canceled the subsciption and told him why.

He's since canceled his own subscription, too.

[Lancey Howard]

I'm asking this question without reading the article: Why didn't Clinton implement his own plan, he certainly had time to attack al Qaeda?

Well, that's simple:

With less than a month left in office, they did not think it appropriate to launch a major initiative against Osama bin Laden. "We would be handing [the Bush Administration] a war when they took office on Jan. 20," says a former senior Clinton aide. "That wasn’t going to happen."

See, Clinton was on top of this whole thing, awrighty, but he didn't think it would be appropriate to hand off a war to a new President. But they gave Bush everything he needed and Bush dropped the ball. Yes sir, Bush dropped the ball. TIME Magazine has proved it irrefutably. If only we still had Clinton, everything would be great and the whole world would be holding hands and skipping through the park tossing daisies.

You can always depend on TIME to come up with the most absurd spin to help their party.

[fellowpatriot]

pathetic dentist's office throw-away

LOL That's the best description of that rag that I've ever seen!

[timestax]

We must put all Time magazines behind other magazines whenever we come across them in a store. They must be stopped! Thankfully people are NOT buying any magazines anymore. We must turn the Time magazines around and put other different magazines in front of them. DO IT!

[Unknown Freeper]

but but but I remember them saying that it only took the month before to plan September 11th. Are they saying that the Toon knew something? And he knew enough that a plan needed to be drawn up while he was in office? /so

[tomahawk]

Why did Clinton allow Al Qaeda to gain strength and turn into a dangerous cancer during his entire Presidency? Then, at the end of his second term, some staff comes up with the idea of fighting Al Qaeda and this is somehow Bush's fault because it wasn't immediately implemented?

[TLBSHOW]

More liberal spin and smears!