Albright: I Don't Know Why Clinton Turned Down Bin Laden Deal

[pfflier]

Russert ripped her a new one when he showed video of her former boss flaming Saddam and saying he must go.. Russert followed with a quote from Albright parroting the sentiment. When Russert asked "why not now", she rambled and salivated and mumbled "it's different now".

[gaspar]

There is only one major problem with the Clinton explanation: Bin Laden was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 Trade Towers bombing. Had Clinton wanted it, a New York grand jury could have indicted him in a heartbeat and at Clinton's demand he could have been returned to the USA, either through the Sudan or Saudi Arabia. Mansoor Ijaz, a Pakistani-American had carried messages between Khartoum and Washington that indicated the Sudan wanted a thaw with the USA -- so Clinton cannot say he was unprepared to respond to the Sudanese offer. He was, from beginning to end, a coward.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Reminds me of Nero playing while Rome burned.

[Redleg Duke]

What a useless piece of human (?) debris!

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

As much as I despised the Clinton administration, I am having increasing difficulty seeing how its foreign policy differs from that of either of the Bushes. There really is only one American foreign policy, no matter what the Republocratic duopoly tells you.

"Our" government "created" people like Osama bin Laden and Sadam Hussein (just as Israel created Hamas) - and later set out to destroy them - for reasons that have very little to do with the reasons stated for public consumption. Suffice it to say, had Bin Laden not existed, "our" government would have had to create him. Capturing him at such an early date, before he had done much of anything, would have not served the agenda that "our" government is following.

[Jael]

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[Mind-numbed Robot]

maybe the same reason Bush let the whole Bin Laden family fly out from Logan airport when all flights in U.S. were grounded...

That is interesting. I had not seen that before. How did you learn it and how can I check it out?

[mickie]

I don't watch Russert either....not after that hillary interview.
After Tony Snow I watch 1/2 hour of Sunday Morning and then Bob Schaeffer at 10:30.
That's when I go to Mass on Saturday, of course.

[jd777]

http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/11/25/104443

[timestax]

Everything connected to the clintoons is just plain sickening!

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[Mind-numbed Robot]

Thanks for the link. However, it doesn't square with your implication that Bush was protecting them for some nefarious reason nor is your statement true that they were allowed to leave while all planes were grounded.

"In the first days after the terror attacks on New York and Washington, Saudi Arabia supervised the urgent evacuation of 24 members of Osama bin Laden's extended family from the United States, fearing that they might be subjected to violence," the New York Times reported on Sept. 30, 2001.

In his first interview after the attacks, Prince Bandar told the Times that private planes carrying the kingdom's deputy defense minister and the governor of Mecca, both members of the royal family, were grounded - initially caught up in the FBI dragnet. Both planes were loaded up with bin Laden relatives and allowed to leave when airports reopened three days later.....

"The F.B.I., informed of the flight by the F.A.A., searched the family's luggage and briefly interviewed those without diplomatic passports, and watched the bin Ladens depart," he wrote.

[jd777]

You're right about that article. I posted it without having read it carefully. I am still under the impression that the FBI searched the luggage and conducted interviews at the airport and the flight was allowed to take off. Not three days later. As for Prince Bandar's claim that the family "might be subjected to violence"... I still think we might have wanted to talk to them a little more closely. We've protected people before.

But I definetly admit that I misrepresented that article.

[MEGoody]

I know why Clinton turned it down. There was no political capital in it at the time.

[MEGoody]

"Our" government "created" people like Osama bin Laden and Sadam Hussein

Exactly how did our government 'create' them?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I am in general agreement with you about the special treatment that the Saudis get but I also think this administration is honest and dilligent. Sometimes the two ideas seem in conflict.

[timestax]

bttt

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[timestax]

bump for justice against this clintoon perp!