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

To: JDN who wrote (750725)	10/2/2006 7:41:05 AM
From: Devil's Advocate	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I guess you believe this Clinton propanganda, don't you? You were probably one of those "wag the dog" propangandist when Clinton launched an attack on Ben Laden... Were you? Here's something for you. Who was sleeping at the wheel in the first nine months of 2001 when those attacks occured: Rice and Bush. They didn't take the terrorist threat seriously because they believe their own Clinton bashing. They though it was a Clinton obsession. They had their own obsession: Iraq ...

To: JDN who wrote (750725)	10/2/2006 1:25:24 PM
From: BEEF JERKEY	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"Surrender, become Islamics?" Yeah right - that’s the only alternative to Bush's folly in Iraq. Oh I'm quite sure Osama would have control of Nebraska, Wyoming and Idaho by now if Bush hadn't invaded Iraq.

To: JDN who wrote (750725)	10/2/2006 3:23:33 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"Bush has said ALL ALONG this war on terror will last MANY YEARS maybe even generations." That's mostly because he seems to be incompetent at prosecuting it... and keeps exacerbating the problem... shooting America in the foot over-and-over, as it were....

To: JDN who wrote (750725)	10/11/2006 11:08:20 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 769670

What Bill Clinton Knew About bin Laden By Tom Fitton In the days leading up to the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, while most Americans were remembering those murdered that day, Bill Clinton was busy launching a pressure campaign to prevent ABC from airing the docudrama, “The Path to 9/11.” The Clinton attack machine was back in action again. Bill Clinton reportedly “went ballistic” when he learned the ABC program cast his administration in an unfavorable light regarding its lackadaisical response to the threat posed by Osama bin Laden. The truth hurts, doesn’t it? Whenever any Clinton official is criticized about that administration’s impotent response to terrorism, we hear the same tired excuses: “The world was different before September 11.” “Hindsight is 20/20.” “We didn’t know the full extent of the bin Laden threat.” No one would contest the point that the world changed on 9/11. Yet there is no doubt Osama bin Laden was a looming menace long before his 19 hijackers boarded airplanes on that day destined for the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And Bill Clinton knew it. But why trust a television show, when you can examine the Clinton administration’s own records? Last summer, Judicial Watch efforts led to the declassification of a “top secret” Clinton State Department intelligence report, entitled, Terrorism/Usama bin Ladin: Who’s Chasing Whom?” The document, dated July 18, 1996, analyzes bin Laden and his network after the terrorist leader was “expelled” from Sudan and sent to Afghanistan. (The Sudanese had offered to turn bin Laden over to the U.S., but the offer was rebuffed by the Clinton administration. “The FBI did not believe we had enough evidence to indict bin Laden at that time…” former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Burger told The Washington Post.) Here are a few excerpts from the Clinton State Department document: • “Bin Laden’s willingness to issue recent public anti-western threats hardly fits the image of a man running scared.” • [Bin Laden’s] interest in supporting radical Islamists extends well beyond the Middle East.” • “[Bin Laden’s] prolonged stay in Afghanistan…could prove more dangerous to US interests in the long run than his three-year liaison with Khartoum [Sudan].” • “Even a bin Laden on the move can retain the capability to support individuals and groups who have the motive and wherewithal to attack US interests almost worldwide.” With all of the intelligence failures that contributed to 9/11, this is one piece of good intelligence that was simply ignored. Just as the State Department report essentially predicted, bin Laden attacked the U.S. on two more occasions during the Clinton years. The 1998 bombing of two U.S. Embassies in Africa, and the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen resulted in the murder of 300 people. Then came 9/11. The truth – whether Bill Clinton wants to acknowledge it or not – is that the Clinton administration was warned about the threat posed by bin Laden. The administration chose not to address the threat seriously, which is one reason why Americans were forced to commemorate a heartbreaking anniversary last week. Tom Fitton is President of Judicial Watch, www.judicialwatch.org. judicialwatch.org