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To: Ilaine who wrote (38694)	4/9/2004 7:00:39 PM
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Had to laugh...Look at this...Isn't hindsight great? Breaking: Apr 9, 2004 Kerrey Says Clinton Should Have Retaliated for Cole Bombing By Hope Yen Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A Sept. 11 commission Democrat disagreed Friday with President Clinton's assessment there wasn't enough intelligence linking al-Qaida to a deadly attack on a Navy ship to justify an attack on the terrorist organization. Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey said he believes Clinton should have launched a military strike against al-Qaida following the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors. "I think he did have enough proof to take action," Kerrey said on ABC's "Good Morning America. The commission interviewed Clinton behind closed doors Thursday for nearly four hours, with many of their questions focused on the Cole attack. A person familiar with the Clinton session said the former president told the commission he did not order retaliatory military strikes because he could not get "a clear, firm judgment of responsibility" from U.S. intelligence before he left office the following January. U.S. intelligence didn't conclude that al-Qaida had sponsored the attack on the ship in the harbor at Aden, Yemen, until after the Bush administration took office. Bush officials have said they didn't retaliate because they didn't want an inadequate "tit-for-tat" response that would embolden the terrorists. The commission held a private session with former Vice President Al Gore on Friday. The three-hour session was described by the panel as "candid and forthcoming." "He answered all our questions. We talked a lot about airline safety and security, the Cole, and the Clinton White House attitude toward terrorism," said Republican commissioner James R. Thompson, a former Illinois governor. He declined to give specifics. A preliminary report on airline security that the panel released in January noted Gore had chaired a 1996 presidential Commission on Aviation Safety and Security that focused on the danger of explosives on aircraft rather than potential foreign hijackings. "It's too soon to be making assessments at this point," Thompson said. President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney also will meet privately with the full panel in a joint session in coming weeks. They initially restricted the interview to one hour with two panel members, but under mounting public pressure agreed last week to a joint session without time constraints. AP-ES-04-09-04 1712EDT This story can be found at: ap.tbo.com

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