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Originally Posted by classicman
The truth however sheds a different light on Clinton and the chances he had as president to get Bin Laden.
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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. |
In fact, Clinton went after Bin Laden in both Afghanistan and Sudan. He authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him...and they failed. And ultimately could not get approval from the Republican House to do more.
He (through his counter terrorism coordinator) also provided Bush with memos identifying Bin Laden and al Queda as the greatest national security/terrorist threat the day Bush took office..and it was ignored for nine months.
"We urgently need . . . a Principals level review on the al Qida network."
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The National Security Archive today posted the widely-debated, but previously unavailable, January 25, 2001, memo from counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke to national security advisor Condoleezza Rice - the first terrorism strategy paper of the Bush administration. The document was central to debates in the 9/11 hearings over the Bush administration's policies and actions on terrorism before September 11, 2001. Clarke's memo requests an immediate meeting of the National Security Council's Principals Committee to discuss broad strategies for combating al-Qaeda by giving counterterrorism aid to the Northern Alliance and Uzbekistan, expanding the counterterrorism budget and responding to the U.S.S. Cole attack. Despite Clarke's request, there was no Principals Committee meeting on al-Qaeda until September 4, 2001.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/...#original_post
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How soon we forget that Condi Rice had a major foreign policy/national security addressed scheduled for Sept. 11, 2001. It was to promote "missile defense" as the number one priority for US national security.
Bush/Rice dropped the fucking ball right from the start...and dropped the fucking ball again in 2003 when they virtually abandoned the pursuit of al Queda in Afghanistan for their folly in Iraq.