Posted on 07/24/2004 10:53:51 AM PDT by ambrose
Clinton Signed Off on Berger Bin Laden Blunders Documents uncovered by the 9/11 Commission suggest that disgraced former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger vetoed several attacks planned in 1999 and 2000 on Osama bin Laden's Afghanistan hideouts. In notes handwritten in the margin, Berger cited "the presence of 7 to 11 families in the Tarnak Farms facility, which could mean 60-65 casualties," then warned, "if he responds, we’re blamed.” In February 2002 President Clinton discussed what sounded like the same plan to target Tarnak Farms, which is located near Khandahar. [In his version, Clinton inflated the potential casualties from 65 to 200.] "The real issue is should we have attacked the al-Qaida network in 1999 or in 2000 in Afghanistan," he told a Long Island business group two years ago. "The only place bin Laden ever went that we knew was occasionally he went to Khandahar where he always spent the night in a compound that had 200 women and children. So I could have, on any given night, ordered an attack that I knew would kill 200 women and children that had less than a 50 percent chance of getting him." Clinton continued: "Now, after he murdered 3,100 of our people and others who came to our country seeking their livelihood you may say, 'Well, Mr. President, you should have killed those 200 women and children.' But at the time we didn't think he had the capacity to do that. And no one thought that I should do that. Although I take full responsibility for it."
According to the Commission, Berger advised against at least three other plans to capture or kill bin Laden during the same 1999-2000 time frame.
But in his 2002 speech, Clinton explained that he made the final call on at least one of those plans to snare the al Qaida leader.
"We actually trained to do this. I actually trained people to do this. We trained people," the ex-president recalled.
"But in order to do it, we would have had to take them in on attack helicopters 900 miles from the nearest boat - maybe illegally violating the airspace of people if they wouldn't give us approval. And we would have had to do a refueling stop."
Without mentioning Berger, Clinton said, "the military recommended against it [because] there was a high probability that it wouldn't succeed."
In his April 8, 2004 testimony before the 9/11 Commission, Clinton took two aides with him: longtime damage controller Bruce Lindsey - and Sandy Berger.
Editor's note:
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: 9/11 Commission
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Saturday, July 24, 2004 12:35 p.m. EDT
But while Berger may have advised against attacking bin Laden, remarks by President Clinton two years ago indicate he personally quashed the plans. As first detailed by the New York Sun on Friday, the 9/11 Commission report cites a document detailing a June 1999 plan to launch cruise missiles into a bin Laden encampment known as Tarnak Farms.
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And Clinton still gets a pass from the 9/11 Commission. Is he blessed or what?
Are you kidding? The democrats that were on the commission, were on there for a reason! Can you imagine the creator of the "WALL" policy regarding not sharing intelligence having a seat on an investigation into intelligence failures? Gezzzz
Clinton's beyond blessed. He must have so much dirt on so many people, any thought of him being on the receiving end of justice is out of the question.
My comment was meant to be sarcastic.
Someone SHOULD go to jail for this.
Anyone willing to take bets on that possibility?
If Sandy Berger was a Republican he'd be behind bars by now.
Tells you something about the GOP leadership, doesn't it?
Remember we never thought Kenny Boy would get his day in court either.....They are just very slow and methodical....Personally I'd prefer sooner rather than later....OTOH do want the job done right...all the 't's crossed and 'i's dotted.
When the FBI willfully destroys, withholds and suppresses evidence, such as in OKC, TWA 800, Ron Brown's ASSASSINATION, and their ties to 911, I have a problem with the inaction of the GOP over their inability and unwillingness to bring these traitors to justice.
We have a case of politicians and bureaucrats protecting each other, when American bodies are in the ground.
Dumb and Dumber.
Crooked and Crookeder ..... nah, Crookedest and Crookeder.
Jamie Gorelick is puss from a cyst on this nation -- dirty tool for Clinton and his One World/Chinese Money/Nuclear Technology Transfers Operation. Hail to a One World Order. Clinton the Rhodes Scholar (who couldn't finish because of a little incident), the commie working for the death of America. It's working.
Gorelick should have a very hot after-life.
Clinton is NOT getting a pass - the data is in the 9/11 Commission Report! It turns out that Clarke's shenanigans & the fiasco created by the 9/11 "widows" during the hearings ultimately forced the commission to release a report that is largely fact-based and fully agreed to in all parts by the commission. Thus we see these data made it into the report! The committee left it to the readers (including US in the internet & blogosphere) to ferret out these kinds of details ... which is also why the report has posed such a quandry for the press who are normally accustomed to NOT having to read these kinds of things but have all their spin spoon fed to them.
Hillary is Depressed
A New York stockbroker got stuck in some bad traffic on the way home months and months ago. He asked a cop on the beat, what was the holdup. Cop says, "It's Hillary in her motorcade. She stopped and is threatening to douse herself in gasoline and set herself on fire. She's depressed because Bill's running around on her more than ever, Bush upstaged her in Iraq, she's flipped out about Gore and Dean, and the Saddam capture put her over the edge. So we're taking up a collection for her."
The stockbroker asks the cop, "How much have you got so far? The cop replies, "About four and a half gallons, but alot of folks are still siphoning!"
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LOL!
He may have received a pass from them, but no the rest of us. Any real American who likes klintoon belongs in a mental hospital. Bush/Cheney 2004
Please don't forget about Ruby Ridge and Waco those were cover-ups big time. Bush/Cheney 2004
You have the correct attitude about (billy the slythe blythe) He is a Besumpthin and if you want to know the definition, send me a private reply. Klintoon was proud to be a draft dodger and liar. Trivia of the day, Why did bill clinton travel through Russia freely during the late 60's? I hope to receive a response for this trivia question. Bush/Cheney 2004
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