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

Drudge Report ^ | 8/4/02

[leadpenny]

In the words of Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, "This is such a crock of s***!"

At some point the W Administration needs to take the gloves off.

[rwfromkansas]

Anybody have the link to an interview with a Clinton administration official that said Clinton didn't even bother to have meetings on national security? I have seen it here before I think.

[JPJones]

Stupid premise for a story, clinton had
every opportunity (sudan) to get bin laden.

[Polybius]

"Plans" are always on the military drawing board. In May 1930, the U.S. Secretaries of War and of the Navy approved “Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan – Red”. This plan included detailed planning for the invasion of............Drum roll, please.................

Canada.

It matters not that Clinton ordered up a plan to some day, maybe, attack al Qaeda.

The bottom line is that Clinton did not pull the trigger and execute the plan.

[desertcry]

clinton did attacked the alqaeda. He fired a cruise missile, hit an empty tent, and a camel in the butt. Then beat his bongo drum, and proclaimed victory.

[Cosmo]

The appropriate counter-spin we should employ is a simple and shopworn refrain: "Clinton once again put politics before national security." this article reitterates this point to perfection.

[NYC GOP Chick]

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?

Shame on you! You forgot to credit the Almighty Sinkmaster with ordering a cruise missile attack to take out an aspirin factory in the Sudan! What a gutsy guy!

[NYC GOP Chick]

I wound up ditching my Time subscription when I was a sophomore in college. Even back then, I recognized what a piece of partisan hack garbage it is.

Last year, I dumped Newsweek for their incessant Bush-bashing and Clinton worship, and am so far pleased with U.S. News & World Report.

[Rockitz]

"Clinton once again put politics before national security." this article reitterates this point to perfection.

I agree. The article is not that damning to Bush. The weasel who titled it is the problem. The liberal editors are the ones in the media who spin things with their titles. They know the sheeple usually only read the titles.

[Toidylop]

Source: Jewish World Review

Dick Morris:

Clinton was removed, uninvolved, and distant where the war on terror was concerned. CIA director Woolsey now reveals that he never had a private personal meeting with Clinton during the first two years of his tenure as head of the CIA - exactly the key period in investigating the 1993 attack.

I had a good illustration of Clinton's remoteness from terrorist issues in 1996 when Dick Holbrooke called me, several months after the terrorist attack on US barracks in Ridyah, Saudi Arabia. Holbrooke, who told me that he had never had the opportunity to speak with Clinton directly during the months that he was negotiating the Dayton peace accords in Bosnia, asked that I get hold of the president to pass along a message. Holbrooke said that he had information that the terrorists were planning another attack in Ridyah and that our troops were highly vulnerable

Ah...the Times!!! Nice try.

[jigsaw]

Ah...Toidylop!!! Nice catch!

Very nice!

[Howlin]

Time for a big old document drop, IMO.

[mware]

I wonder if TIME mentioned the files of material in Arabic found after the 1st attack on the world trade center that never got translated????

[KSCITYBOY]

Let's see - 1) Attacking bin laden would NOT have stopped the 911 attacks - 2) After several attacks on US military and our embassies the "Toon" didn't attack. 3) Another attack on Bush fails miserably. Liberal are idiots.

[robertpaulsen]

"If we hadn’t had a transition," says a senior Clinton Administration official, "probably in late October or early November 2000, we would have had [the plan to go on the offensive] as a presidential directive."

So they were prepared to go it alone and invade a foreign country as a presidential directive, without consulting our allies, without consulting congress, without declaring war, and without provocation? Klinton had 8 years to invade; the latest act of al Qaeda was no worse than it's previous acts.

[Monty22]

Clearly the toon and company had this thing figured out.. Because of that dang election coming up, they simply couldn't start a war or do anything which might help a goron victory. No, instead they did the right thing: Wait it out and save their reputations.

If only the toon had a few more months... Think of it, no more terrorism, war, poverty, anything. Makes me so depressed that goron lost.