The Clinton administration:
1. Did not follow-up on the attempted bombing of Aden marines in Yemen.
2. Shut the CIA out of the 1993 WTC bombing investigation, hamstringing their effort to capture bin Laden.
3. Had Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a key bin Laden lieutenant, slip through their fingers in Qatar.
4. Did not militarily react to the al Qaeda bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
5. Did not accept the Sudanese offer to turn bin Laden.
6. Did not follow-up on another offer from Sudan through a private back channel.
7. Objected to Northern Alliance efforts to assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan.
8. Decided against using special forces to take down bin Laden in Afghanistan.
9. Did not take an opportunity to take into custody two al Qaeda operatives involved in the East African embassy bombings. In another little scoop, I am able to show that Sudan arrested these two terrorists and offered them to the FBI. The Clinton administration declined to pick them up and they were later allowed to return to Pakistan.
10. Ordered an ineffectual, token missile strike against a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory.
11. Clumsily tipped off Pakistani officials sympathetic to bin Laden before a planned missile strike against bin Laden on August 20, 1998. Bin Laden left the camp with only minutes to spare.
12-14. Three times, Clinton hesitated or deferred in ordering missile strikes against bin Laden in 1999 and 2000.
15. When they finally launched and armed the Predator spy drone plane, which captured amazing live video images of bin Laden, the Clinton administration no longer had military assets in place to strike the archterrorist.
16. Did not order a retaliatory strike on bin Laden for the murderous attack on the USS Cole.
1. Did not follow-up on the attempted bombing of Aden marines in Yemen.
2. Shut the CIA out of the 1993 WTC bombing investigation, hamstringing their effort to capture bin Laden.
3. Had Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a key bin Laden lieutenant, slip through their fingers in Qatar.
4. Did not militarily react to the al Qaeda bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
5. Did not accept the Sudanese offer to turn bin Laden.
6. Did not follow-up on another offer from Sudan through a private back channel.
7. Objected to Northern Alliance efforts to assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan.
8. Decided against using special forces to take down bin Laden in Afghanistan.
9. Did not take an opportunity to take into custody two al Qaeda operatives involved in the East African embassy bombings. In another little scoop, I am able to show that Sudan arrested these two terrorists and offered them to the FBI. The Clinton administration declined to pick them up and they were later allowed to return to Pakistan.
10. Ordered an ineffectual, token missile strike against a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory.
11. Clumsily tipped off Pakistani officials sympathetic to bin Laden before a planned missile strike against bin Laden on August 20, 1998. Bin Laden left the camp with only minutes to spare.
12-14. Three times, Clinton hesitated or deferred in ordering missile strikes against bin Laden in 1999 and 2000.
15. When they finally launched and armed the Predator spy drone plane, which captured amazing live video images of bin Laden, the Clinton administration no longer had military assets in place to strike the archterrorist.
16. Did not order a retaliatory strike on bin Laden for the murderous attack on the USS Cole.
Most increases in security -- airport security, in this case -- are usually the result a tragic incident(s) which we would like to avoid in the future.
I remember when I used to be able to walk right up to the gate and see my relatives and friends off before boarding the plane. I remember when I didn't have to walk through a medal detector. I remember when my luggage and laptop didn't have to be x-rayed.
We all remember the "good ol' days."
Unfortunately, the rules changed when Muslim extremists decided hijacking and bombing civilian aircraft was a cool way to make a political statement. They've been doing it for decades -- as far back as Yasser Arafat and the PLO.
Of course everyone hates waiting 2 hours to board an airplane -- I hate it as much as the next person.
The difference is, libs blame the government ("Bush wants to take away our freedoms!"); conservatives blame the terrorists.
Libs would never blame the terrorists -- after all, terrorists are mommies and daddies too. :missingte
So instead of defeating the terrorists, Bill Clinton decided to pursue policies so typical of liberals...
The terrorists learned an important lesson: kill innocent people and draw attention to your 'grievances' and the POTUS will invite you to Camp David.
hno:
The rest -- the terror that followed throughout the 90s climaxing on 9/11 -- is history. I'm sure bib Laden believed one day he'd be following in Arafat's footsteps.
Lesson learned. No more appeasing or 'containing' or ignoring evil.
As John McCain stated at Pastor Warren's Saddleback debate, EVIL MUST BE DEFEATED.
Prof Obama subscribes to a more "nuanced' approach. How exactly he plans on reigning in evil he never says...and well, frankly Prof, we really don't want to find out.
I remember when I used to be able to walk right up to the gate and see my relatives and friends off before boarding the plane. I remember when I didn't have to walk through a medal detector. I remember when my luggage and laptop didn't have to be x-rayed.
We all remember the "good ol' days."
Unfortunately, the rules changed when Muslim extremists decided hijacking and bombing civilian aircraft was a cool way to make a political statement. They've been doing it for decades -- as far back as Yasser Arafat and the PLO.
Of course everyone hates waiting 2 hours to board an airplane -- I hate it as much as the next person.
The difference is, libs blame the government ("Bush wants to take away our freedoms!"); conservatives blame the terrorists.
Libs would never blame the terrorists -- after all, terrorists are mommies and daddies too. :missingte
So instead of defeating the terrorists, Bill Clinton decided to pursue policies so typical of liberals...
The terrorists learned an important lesson: kill innocent people and draw attention to your 'grievances' and the POTUS will invite you to Camp David.
hno:The rest -- the terror that followed throughout the 90s climaxing on 9/11 -- is history. I'm sure bib Laden believed one day he'd be following in Arafat's footsteps.
Lesson learned. No more appeasing or 'containing' or ignoring evil.
As John McCain stated at Pastor Warren's Saddleback debate, EVIL MUST BE DEFEATED.
Prof Obama subscribes to a more "nuanced' approach. How exactly he plans on reigning in evil he never says...and well, frankly Prof, we really don't want to find out.
Most increases in security -- airport security, in this case -- are usually the result a tragic incident(s) which we would like to avoid in the future.
I remember when I used to be able to walk right up to the gate and see my relatives and friends off before boarding the plane. I remember when I didn't have to walk through a medal detector. I remember when my luggage and laptop didn't have to be x-rayed.
We all remember the "good ol' days."
Unfortunately, the rules changed when Muslim extremists decided hijacking and bombing civilian aircraft was a cool way to make a political statement. They've been doing it for decades -- as far back as Yasser Arafat and the PLO.
Of course everyone hates waiting 2 hours to board an airplane -- I hate it as much as the next person.
The difference is, libs blame the government ("Bush wants to take away our freedoms!"); conservatives blame the terrorists.
Libs would never blame the terrorists -- after all, terrorists are mommies and daddies too. :missingte
So instead of defeating evil, Bill Clinton decided to pursue policies so typical of liberals...
The terrorists learned an important lesson: kill innocent people and draw attention to your 'grievances' and the POTUS will invite you to Camp David.
The rest -- the terror that followed throughout the 90s climaxing on 9/11 -- is history.
Lesson learned. No more appeasing or 'containing' or ignoring evil.
As John McCain stated at Pastor Warren's Saddleback debate, EVIL MUST BE DEFEATED.
Prof Obama subscribes to a more "nuanced' approach. How exactly he plans on reigning in evil he never says...and well, frankly Prof, we really don't want to find out.
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It takes a someone with a complete lack of knowledge of the facts to make this statement. The attack on the USS Cole occured at the tail end of the Clinton administration. The results of the subsequent investigation that identified the perpetrators of the crime were made available while the Bush administration was in power. Any retaliation for that act would've been the responsibilty of the Bush administration. Meanwhile, many of the actual perpetrators were apprehended, tried, and jailed.
Nonetheless, the talking points for the morons that receive their marching orders from the RNC/GOP, is that the Clinton administration did not retaliate for this act.
