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

To: American Spirit who wrote (457435)	9/11/2003 8:23:11 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

It is clear that the offer was made, Clinton did not want him. And Clinton let the Cole get bombed and regardless of whether Osama was caught or not, that did not have to happen. It was budget cuts in defense voted on by Kerry that caused things like the Cole bombing to happen.

To: American Spirit who wrote (457435)	9/12/2003 12:26:00 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

AS, Re: I have even heard stories that Osama was once a CIA operative. WHo knows? Those who know aren't saying. :) Osama Bin Laden's connection with the CIA may have been fairly arm's length. The point of connection is that Bin Laden and the CIA were both engaged in arming and organizing the mujahadeen resistance in Afghanistan and in the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan during the 1980's. I've never seen anything definitive to the effect that Bin Laden was directly employed by the C.I.A. But it certainly wouldn't be a surprising situation. After all, recently reveled records show the C.I.A. employing the U.S.'s other bogeyman, Saddam Hussein, as early as 1959, when he was a thug for hire.