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To: combjelly who wrote (380890)	4/28/2008 12:21:15 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575780

Significant, substantial, whatever. The fact remains that the 75 missiles did little to slow bin Laden down -- remember, the "lucky shot" of 9/11 occurred only 3 short years after this bee sting of an attack against bin Laden. It is unfortunate that Clinton didn't treat bin Laden as the kind of enemy at this time that Bush did beginning on 9/12/01 -- it is possible the 9/11 attacks could have been stopped. It is important to remember also that this missile strike was supposedly to knock out a chemical weapons manufacturing facility. If Clinton truly believed these people -- this enemy that is "not even a state" as Z would tell it, were building chemical weapons, what the hell were they thinking in not following up in the strongest possible way? You've got individual terrorist groups building chemical weapons, and you're cool just to hit them with a few missiles and then conveniently forget about the whole thing? I have never believed the attack was a Wag The Dog arrangement; but one does have to wonder where Clinton's testicles were if he couldn't find the strength to do more than this to prevent a future attack. One thing nobody will ever be able to rightfully accuse Bush of -- and that is under-reacting. AQ has been decimated over the last 6 years, and nobody will be able to second guess THAT 10 years from now.