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Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden
NewsMax ^ | 8/15/05 | NewsMax

Posted on 08/15/2005 8:08:34 PM PDT by 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.


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To: wagglebee

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


21 posted on 08/15/2005 8:13:35 PM PDT by decal ("The Republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it")
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To: wagglebee
****"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!

22 posted on 08/15/2005 8:13:36 PM PDT by buckeyesrule (God bless Condi Rice!)
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To: wagglebee
"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.

23 posted on 08/15/2005 8:13:55 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: wagglebee
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...

24 posted on 08/15/2005 8:14:00 PM PDT by Rokurota (.)
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To: wagglebee

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


25 posted on 08/15/2005 8:14:02 PM PDT by LearsKent
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To: A CA Guy; wagglebee

"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."


26 posted on 08/15/2005 8:14:13 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (The presence of "peace" is the absence of opposition to socialism -- Marx)
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To: wagglebee
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.
27 posted on 08/15/2005 8:14:15 PM PDT by Shqipo (Doing what I can to turn Maine back to Red.)
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To: wagglebee

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

28 posted on 08/15/2005 8:14:23 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Get all the incumbents out of politics!)
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To: wagglebee
Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks ..

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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.

29 posted on 08/15/2005 8:14:27 PM PDT by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: wagglebee

Delusional.


30 posted on 08/15/2005 8:14:27 PM PDT by NewYorker
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To: 50sDad

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


31 posted on 08/15/2005 8:14:30 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Liberals preach comity and practice calumny.)
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To: wagglebee

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


32 posted on 08/15/2005 8:14:35 PM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: wagglebee

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

Lying SOS.


33 posted on 08/15/2005 8:15:00 PM PDT by headstamp
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To: 50sDad

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


34 posted on 08/15/2005 8:15:32 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (**AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS NOT SO MUCH "WHO" WE STAND FOR, BUT RATHER "WHAT" WE STAND FOR**)
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To: wagglebee

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.


35 posted on 08/15/2005 8:15:32 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: wagglebee
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.
36 posted on 08/15/2005 8:15:53 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("A people without a heritage are easily persuaded (deceived)" - Karl Marx)
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To: wagglebee

37 posted on 08/15/2005 8:15:58 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
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To: wagglebee

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


38 posted on 08/15/2005 8:15:58 PM PDT by ZOTnot ('We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good'--Hillary, 6/28/2004.)
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To: wagglebee
Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks

H
e 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.

39 posted on 08/15/2005 8:16:00 PM PDT by gpapa (Voice of reason from the left coast)
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To: wagglebee

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


40 posted on 08/15/2005 8:16:15 PM PDT by justt bloomin
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