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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: American Spirit who wrote (387553)4/7/2003 10:07:43 PM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
We paid a price for our peace and prosperity of the 90's. The price? Our peace and prosperity. President Clinton refused to respond to multiple attacks to our nation out of fears of his own approval ratings. None of the events below are made up.

highvolumemedia.com

In August, 2002, NewsMax.com releases secret audio of then President Clinton admitting for the first time anywhere that he had the chance to take Osama bin Laden into custody, but he nixed the idea because he couldn't come up with a legal justification for the 9-11 mastermind's extradition The tape was recorded at a February 2002 business luncheon on New York's Long Island:
"Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan.

"And we'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start meeting with them again - they released him.

"At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.

"So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan." (End of excerpt)

While many Americans felt great pride in Bill Clinton's approach to terrorism, the Islamic world celebrated on September 11th, 2001
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