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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (76996)	6/9/2006 2:01:35 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

>>Bob Kerry, a former senator and current 9/11 commission member, said, “The most important thing the Clinton administration could have done would have been for the president, either himself or by going to Congress, asking for a congressional declaration to declare war on al-Qaida, a military-political organization that had declared war on us.” In reality, getting bin Laden would have been extraordinarily difficult. He was a moving target deep inside Afghanistan. Most military operations would have been high-risk. What’s more, Clinton was weakened by scandal, and there was no political consensus for bold action, especially with an election weeks away.<< Steve - Read these two paragraphs from that story. They make the point I was going to make to you; namely that Clinton did not have the support of Congress, and that getting Bin Laden wasn't assured in any case. I can just imagine the reaction in Congress (the same Congress that had impeached him) if Clinton had done what Bob Kerry suggests. They would have laughed him out of town. Clinton did fire missiles into Afghanistan in an attempt on Bin Laden's life. That's hardly "missing in action". - Allen