President Clinton: We had one strike but we had three others planned which I was prepared to go forward with. At the last minute they were called off because the CIA said they didn’t trust their own intelligence to do it. We also contracted with Afghan tribal groups to capture or kill Bin Laden that never produced anything and we had a contract with the Pakistanis to train a group to go on across the Pakistan border to capture or kill him and then when General Musharraf became President he cancelled that, so the only other option then was either the introduction of a substantial para-military force, our special forces, or some small scale invasion which the world would have howled about based on the facts at the time. I would have had the opportunity to do one of these two things after Bin Laden bombed the U.S.S Cole and killed those naval soldiers.
He is still lying.
Mushareff became President of Pakistan after elections in June 21 of 2001, several months after Clinton left office.
The USS Cole was bombed over 8 months earlier on 17 October 2000.
Clinton had his opportunities and like every other time we were attacked he did nothing. If you look at the timeline, this attempt to blame his own lack of action on Musharref is pure bullshit.
But that is not all. I see a glimmer of truth in his next statement...
Clinton infers he knew where the attackers were, then said he failed to go after those who attacked us because, "The world would have howled."
Have I got this right? 17 US servicemen are killed by terrorists. More are wounded. And Clinton does not go after the attackers because "The world would have howled" and also because Musharref was elected president 8 months later.
Referring to Saddam, the BBC also asked him, "Do you think the policy of containment was still working at the end of 2002/beginning of 2003?"
President Clinton: "Yes"
Yeah right Mr President! Tell that to the Iraquis slaughtered by Saddam before and after you took office. Tell them how well your program was working. Tell it to these folks...
shianews.com
Official Iraqi documents recovered after the fall of Saddam’s regime suggest a staggering 5 million executions were made during Ba’ath era alone. Over 10 million were also imprisoned. They were all Shi’ite save a small percentage of Kurds. It is also very interesting to note that after the 1991 Shi’ite uprising over 300,000 were killed or captured never to be seen again, but there were no injured. This is very odd considering the logical fact that wars result in many more injuries than deaths. Under Saddam, however, people were either killed instantly or killed in mass executions soon after. With slogans such as “After today no more Shi’ites” the army had advanced into the city of Karbala. The killed were killed, the captured were killed, and the injured were killed as well. No one was spared.
Committees must be set up to promote the Iraqi calamity all over the world in an effort to defend the rights of the Shi’ites in general. Their memory should be preserved to help other Shi’ites suffering persecution elsewhere in the world.
Those executed by the Saddam regime were brutally murdered because they stood for an agenda, an agenda to have peace and exercise their right to freedom of religion. Now they themselves have become an agenda. We must not forget the sacrifices made by Iraqis because although liberation was eventually accomplished at the hands of the Coalition forces, they were only sowing the seeds. The Shi’ites of Iraq paid a very dear price for its liberation,
I too have a question. Where do the Democrats find such men to lead their party? |
