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To: Alighieri who wrote (463528)	3/13/2009 12:53:35 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578705

He also refused to attack saddam even after PNAC urged him to do so. Look at the names at the bottom of the letter...look familiar? 911 was just an excuse for these guys. No. It was simply a bad decision on Clinton's part not to have reacted as the letter suggested. The truth is that he was in crisis -- this letter was written on very day that Clinton DENIED having "sexual relations with that woman", and ten days after the scandal originally broke (AQ's leadership actually believed the Lewinsky affair to be a plot on the part of Jews in response to the belief that Clinton was cozying up a little to closely to the Palestinians). He had other things on his mind (perhaps the letter was never even read, we don't know). At any rate, every word of the letter is true. Clearly, had Clinton undertaken the war at that time the effect on American history would have been huge, and he might well have prevented the August 7 embassy bombings, the Cole attack, and even 9/11. We just can't know what effects an appropriate response to Saddam's belligerence might have had, but it certainly would have had some consequence. In particular, it would have heightened the intelligence response that would likely have prevented some or all of these terrorist attacks -- and the intelligence failures that occurred as a result of inattention during the Clinton years very possibly would not have happened. Serious military action would definitely have mitigated somewhat the perception that we were weak. Instead, we got failed Cruise missile attacks -- something only Jimmy Carter could have dreamed up -- which only further projected an image of impotence. The authors of the letter you cited were 100% correct. There is literally not one sentence in the letter that reflected anything other than the best judgments available on these subjects.