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Old 02-09-2010, 09:27 PM   #49
classicman
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The truth however sheds a different light on Clinton and the chances he had as president to get Bin Laden.
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The tape proves the Clinton administration was aggressively tracking al-Qaida a year before 9/11. But that also raises one enormous question: If the U.S. government had bin Laden and the camps in its sights in real time,
why was no action taken against them?

“We were not prepared to take the military action necessary,” said retired Gen. Wayne Downing, who ran counter-terror efforts for the current Bush administration and is now an NBC analyst.
“We should have had strike forces prepared to go in and react to this intelligence, certainly cruise missiles — either air- or sea-launched — very, very accurate, could have gone in and hit those targets,” Downing added.

Gary Schroen, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, says
the White House required the CIA to attempt to capture bin Laden alive, rather than kill him.


What impact did the wording of the orders have on the CIA’s ability to get bin Laden? “It reduced the odds from, say, a 50 percent chance down to, say, 25 percent chance that we were going to be able to get him,” said Schroen.

A Democratic member of the 9/11 commission says there was a larger issue:
The Clinton administration treated bin Laden as a law enforcement problem.


One Clinton Cabinet official said, looking back,
the military should have been more involved, “We did a lot, but we did not see the gathering storm that was out there.”
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There are plenty more. To accuse Bush and not Clinton is revisionist and an extremist's attempt at rewriting history. It is nothing short of irresponsible and inaccurate.
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