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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (284186)	8/6/2002 12:09:35 PM
From: SeachRE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush was busy bombing Iraq and picking a fight with China days after Inauguration. He's been "busy"...only that the result of his work is a bit mediocre. I pray he'll improve over the remainder of his term(fingers crossed). <g>

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (284186)	8/6/2002 12:20:16 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

TV Viewers Turn Thumbs Down on 'President Hillary' By a margin a nearly 9 to 1, residents of the New York metropolitan area don't want to see New York Sen. Hillary Clinton run for president - ever. At least that's what viewers told a local TV station after they were asked to register their opinion online. Unlike many online polls, which usually tilt conservative, New York City's WPIX tried to reach out to a broader TV audience. Another factor that should have helped Hillary: Residents in the area reached by the station's broadcast signal voted for her overwhelmingly in the 2000 Senate race. "We call it Tell Us @ Ten," the station explains on its website. "Each day at our news meeting, the News @ Ten staff will decide on a hot-button issue for the day and formulate a question around it, the question will then be put up on WB11.COM, our website. Then, as the night goes on, viewers will be driven to our website to cast their votes, and then tune in at 10:00 PM to see exactly how New Yorkers felt." Earlier this week, WPIX asked viewers, "Would you like to see Sen. Hillary Clinton run for President?" Mrs. Clinton lost by a landslide, with a whopping 87.4 percent (955 respondents) saying they didn't want to see the rising Democratic Party star back in the White House. Since the 'President Hillary' question didn't mention what year she might run, the responses presumably cover both 2004 and 2008. Hillary's coming White House bid was backed by just 138 WPIX viewers, a slender 12.6 percent. newsmax.com

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (284186)	8/6/2002 12:21:05 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Looks like all Clinton tried to do was cover his butt on his way out. It was 11th hour material shoved at the new administration, seems he had eight years to do something himself.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (284186)	8/6/2002 12:37:46 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Time Forgot: Clinton Personally Nixed Plans to Get Bin Laden Time magazine's "bombshell" report this weekend claiming the Bush White House shelved Clinton administration plans to attack al-Qaeda and take out Osama bin Laden omitted one key detail: Clinton himself personally deep-sixed the same plans long before they reached the Bush team. As recently as February, in a speech to a Long Island, N.Y., business group, the ex-president described two separate bin Laden attack plans drawn up during the last two years of his administration by his national security and military teams - and explained why he decided not to pursue either one. The first plan involved a "boots-on-the-ground" assault by U.S. Special Forces on Khandahar of the kind Time says then-National Security Advisor Sandy Berger wanted. "I actually trained people to do this. We trained people," Clinton told the Long Island Association's Feb. 15 luncheon. "But in order to do it we would have had to take them in on attack helicopters 900 miles from the nearest boat, maybe illegally violating the airspace of people if they wouldn't give us approval," he explained. By Clinton's own account, in other words, it was he, and not the Bush administration, that put the kibosh on Berger's "boots-on-the-ground" plan. And he did so for reasons that don't sound particularly well founded in hindsight - fear of "illegally" violating the airspace of Afghanistan's neighbors. Time also claims that in 2000, the ex-president had dispatched submarines to the northern Arabian Sea. There they waited, ready to attack bin Laden if his coordinates could be determined. In fact, as Clinton revealed in the same speech six months ago, military planners had indeed determined bin Laden's whereabouts with enough certainty to develop a plan to take him out with a cruise missile attack. But once again, the ex-president acknowledged, he pulled the plug on the operation - this time because he was afraid innocent Afghans would die in the same attack. "The only place bin Laden ever went that we knew was occasionally he went to Khandahar, where he always spent the night in a compound that had 200 women and children," Clinton told the business group. "So I could have, on any given night, ordered an attack that I knew would kill 200 women and children, that had less than a 50 percent chance of getting him," he explained, struggling to justify his failure to act. It's likely that the Clinton White House had dozens of contingency plans to get bin Laden that were eventually rejected by the Bush administration. But it's equally clear, by the ex-president's own words, that the plans with the best chance to succeed in decapitating al-Qaeda before 9-11 were personally rejected by Clinton himself.