Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden

NewsMax ^ | 8/15/05 | NewsMax

[wagglebee]

Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks – if only the FBI and CIA had been able to prove the al-Qaida mastermind was behind the attack on the U.S.S. Cole.

"I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole," Clinton tells New York magazine this week. "Then we could have launched an attack on Afghanistan early."

"I don’t know if it would have prevented 9/11," he added. "But it certainly would have complicated it.”

Despite his failure to launch such an attack, Clinton said he saw the danger posed by bin Laden much more clearly than did President Bush.

"I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did," he told New York magazine.

[wagglebee]

"I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did," he told New York magazine.

What a lying sack of sh*t!

[Sometimes A River]

Oh goodness.

And the MSM will eat this right up.

[NathanBookman]

"Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden"

But I was too busy sticking my cigar in my brand new Lewinsky humidor.

[Leo Carpathian]

If only screwing interns didn't get in the way! SheeeesH!

[The Mayor]

coulda, woulda, shoulda.......

What a piece of work he is.

[clintonh8r]

Arky trash: For the umpteenth time: STFU!!!!

[Parley Baer]

Sure Bill. Bwahahahahahaha. His war on terrorism was to tell the Bush admistration to keep and eye on bin Laden.

[RedStateRocker]

As was said about another president:
"He lies even when he doesn't have to, just to stay in practice".

[A CA Guy]

This seems a direct invitation to put the truth out there.

He wants to re-write his legacy, but there is so much to prove he was responsible for 9-11.

This man knows know shame, just lots of strange women's bodies.

[Stellar Dendrite]

Weldon's story must be bothering him....this is a "pre-emptive strike"

[Sometimes A River]

And, that still puts him at odds with the current head of the Dem Party, who was calling for a criminal trial for Osama.

[SunnyD1182]

Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks – if only the FBI and CIA had been able to prove the al-Qaida mastermind was behind the attack on the U.S.S. Cole.

He has got to be kidding me. This clown sat there and let the 1993 WTC attacks happen, he let numerous other embassy attacks happen, and he STILL sat there and did nothing. Why should we sit there and believe that he would have magically taken Osama out after the USS Cole?

Clinton is a clown, and this proves it. I actually had a tiny bit of respect left for the man, but now I just lost all of it. This guy is as disingenuous as it gets.

[Homer1]

First Weldon and now this. It's ON, baby. This is war.

[Bob]

In that case, bill, you'll have no problem at all with Reno and Gorelick testifying publicly under oath about your administration's involvement in building the "wall", will you?

[A CA Guy]

A direct attempt to help his wife's run when he was implicated as so much of the problem.

This will become very exposed as a lie IMO.

[50sDad]

Dear Lord, please allow me to live long enough that I can urniate on this man's grave. Amen.

[jla]

Brace-yourself-before-reading ping

[clintonh8r]

He should be talking from a prison cell right now, but nobody had the balls to indict, try and convict him of rape, treason and God knows what else.

[bray]

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Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Clay Moore]

So why didn't he when given the oppertunity?

[decal]

The headline is wrong: he really said "I would have attacked Bev Laden...she had some buh-ZOOMS, let me tell you"

[buckeyesrule]

****"I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole," ***

...you were!

[okie01]

"I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did," he told New York magazine.

Pathetic. A slimy grandstander. The man has no shame.

[Rokurota]

CLINTON: If I only had one more day in office, I would have cured cancer, AIDS, poverty, global warming and found Jimmy Hoffa!!

CRONKITE: And that's the way it is...or could have been...or should have been...

[LearsKent]

My, my, Bill must be in touch with the weather...

[Stellar Dendrite]

"So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have," Clinton explained. "But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."

[Shqipo]

Pitiful. Clinton thinks his only mistake as POTUS was not splurging for a new blue dress. What happened to the rule that ex-presidents retire quietly? Carter and Bubba get worse by the month.

[isthisnickcool]

People say how smart Bill Clinton is. Look who the dumba$$ married....

[WideGlide]

Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks ..

Yeah. He would have taken out Obama bin Laden if he could've found time in his busy schedule of slinging his DNA around the Oval Office.

[NewYorker]

Delusional.

[clintonh8r]

I can't tell you how many times I've expressed that exact sentiment

[Americanexpat]

Yeah, sure Clinton! It would have gone just like your escapade in Somalia and Carter's in Iran.

[headstamp]

I guess the "Able Danger" revelation is bringing a little sweat to your brow there Billy Boy, eh?

Lying SOS.

[AmericanInTokyo]

...n' save a few drops for Hilary's, too...

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Hey, if the American people believe this enabler of 911, they deserve everthing they get. And...believe me, they will enter a world of horrors they never, ever dreamed of!!! Wait until their babies get slaughtered like innocent Iraqi and Israeli children. Remember the 1500 years of the Roman Empire!!! It fell in exactly the same fashion as the USA is falling today. Bin Laden and his ilk are rubbing their hands and laughing their heads off at the American people who fall for the Clinton and Democrat/Liberal BS. America, you will be sorry!!! Of that much, I can assure you!!! What Bill Clinton is selling will make 911 look like a church Sunday School picnic.

[concerned about politics]

Lying SOB. He's a coward. He ran from Bin Laden for 8 loooooong years, and good men died.
Clinton is, and always has been, low life trash.

[denydenydeny]

[ZOTnot]

Wasn't he offered the 'proverbial head on a platter' by one of the east African nations, but declined' as I recall?

[gpapa]

Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks

He could have picked him up in Sudan if he thought he was so dangerous.

Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize
Sudan offered up the terrorist and data on his network. The then-president and his advisors didn't respond.

[justt bloomin]

Of course he would have, we all would have. But he didn't. Stop lying when history can prove you wrong.

[tsmith130]

Look who the dumba$$ married....

Which dumbass?

[Uncle Vlad]

"I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did," he told New York magazine.

Oh, really? Then why didn't you take one of the four opportunities to grab him when you had the chance? Oh, I'm sorry; the guy only grabbed interns when he was in office. Never mind.

[SunStar]

If Clinton had attached Afghanistan after the USS Cole bombing, Al Gore would be President right now...

[WKUHilltopper]

LOL!! Ain't that the truth!

[Stellar Dendrite]

see #26

[Chgogal]

Great! Now he tells us. After eight years in the White House during which we were attacked how many times? And all Clintoon could muster was a cruise missile here and a cruise missile there hitting an aspirin factory, a camel's butt and the Chinese Embassy...wait! Did Clintoon think Bin Laden was hiding in the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade???

[NonValueAdded]

Pitiful

[NCC-1701]

"...Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden..."

Then why didn't you, you lying, philandering POS? You had three oppurtunities to take posession of that murderer and you passed ALL THREE TIMES. After you were out of office, and I need to remind you that you ARE out of office, you admitted that you could havs and should have done that. Now, President Bush is still mucking your stall five and a half years later. Will you please just STFU and go away and let a man do a man's job. You surely didn't.

[Texas_Conservative2]

BS

If you had still been President we would still be waiting on the UN to decide what to do.

[nopardons]

There's a reason FREEPERS call Slick Willie CLINTOCIO.