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To: AK2004 who wrote (270776)	1/31/2006 2:17:56 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578306

"was not Clinton warned of impending attack by lin Ladin and had plenty of time (unlike Bush) to reform the security and yet he did nothing ......" If Richard Clark is to be believed, there was quite a bit done. At a minimum, bin Laden was on the Clinton administration radar screen and not on the Bush one. Despite the warnings and even some detailed intelligence. The concern of the Bush administration was "rogue nations", not some guys huddling in caves... So the PDB about bin Laden determined to strike the US was ignored.

To: AK2004 who wrote (270776)	1/31/2006 2:29:39 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578306

Sure but Clinton decided to "gather more data" first and sent his video team in to catch Bin Laden on tape in his camps training the bad guys up to the 9/11 attack. Taro

To: AK2004 who wrote (270776)	1/31/2006 8:22:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578306

Hmmm, was not Clinton warned of impending attack by lin Ladin and had plenty of time (unlike Bush) to reform the security and yet he did nothing ...... Did nothing? I would not agree with that statement that Clinton did nothing but then its seems YOU think he did nothing no matter what he did. So then what would you suggest he should have done? Obviously Bush's invasion of Afghanistan was a bust.......it cost the US billions and they have been unable to capture OBL in three years. In the meantime, al Qaida cells have mushroomed throughout the world. Maybe what Clinton did was the best he could do under the negative circumstances created by Reagan and Bush I. Have you considered that Pandora's Box had been opened well before Clinton and now there isn't much that can be done to stop the madness it has unleashed? I didn't think so.