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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.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: isthisnickcool
Look who the dumba$$ married....

Which dumbass?

41 posted on 08/15/2005 8:16:22 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: okie01
"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.

42 posted on 08/15/2005 8:16:28 PM PDT by Uncle Vlad
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To: wagglebee

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


43 posted on 08/15/2005 8:16:34 PM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: NathanBookman

LOL!! Ain't that the truth!


44 posted on 08/15/2005 8:17:03 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: ZOTnot

see #26


45 posted on 08/15/2005 8:17:32 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (The presence of "peace" is the absence of opposition to socialism -- Marx)
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To: wagglebee
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???
46 posted on 08/15/2005 8:18:07 PM PDT by Chgogal (Congressmen who willfully...during war...damage moral...should be arrested, exiled or..." Lincoln)
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To: wagglebee
Pitiful
47 posted on 08/15/2005 8:18:11 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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To: wagglebee

"...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.


48 posted on 08/15/2005 8:18:11 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT!!!!! IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: wagglebee

BS

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


49 posted on 08/15/2005 8:18:18 PM PDT by Texas_Conservative2
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To: wagglebee

There's a reason FREEPERS call Slick Willie CLINTOCIO.


50 posted on 08/15/2005 8:18:20 PM PDT by nopardons
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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.

Even Monica wouldn't swallow THAT! :-)

51 posted on 08/15/2005 8:18:34 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: wagglebee

This is one guy you simply run out of words to express adequate outrage over. The bull ---- never ends! And as bad as he is, and as far out front he is in the race, Carter is obviously determined to do him one worse.


52 posted on 08/15/2005 8:18:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

The bastard Bid Laden had already openly declared war against us. Had the blood supply to President Clinton been free going to his mind instead of just his manhood, he would have simply took him.
Before 9/11 he still had every reason to do so.

Then after that he gave China missile rocket and guidance technology to nuke us.

These things are the true Clinton Legacy.


53 posted on 08/15/2005 8:19:15 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: wagglebee

You forgot PATHETIC in your most accurate yet terse description of Slick Willie.


54 posted on 08/15/2005 8:19:21 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: wagglebee

What about Kobar Towers, Bill?

What about the embassy bombings, Bill?

What about WTC I, Bill?

What about the Democrats trying to void the votes of the soldiers on the U.S.S Cole in the 2000 election, Bill?


55 posted on 08/15/2005 8:20:29 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: wagglebee

Let's hope he knew more than Bush, after all he had been president for 8 years and Bush had been in office nearly 8 months when 9/11 occurred. His job was to make sure the information was passed on in a way that protected the American people. I suspect he wanted everyone to think everything was utopia since he had served for 8 years and that he had taken care of all the problems.


56 posted on 08/15/2005 8:20:32 PM PDT by sugarbabe
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To: wagglebee
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Will this scum-sucking enema-bag BOZO every shut up with the "I coulda - yes I woulda" wish upon a star crap?

YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING !!!!!

OGMAFB !!!!!!!
(Oh give me a f'n break)
57 posted on 08/15/2005 8:20:59 PM PDT by Texaspeptoman (even cannibals get fed up on people sometimes)
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To: A CA Guy

He knows the building momentum of the weldon story...that is why he's trying to deflect it with these statements. He's obviously taking it seriously, which makes me believe weldon even more.


58 posted on 08/15/2005 8:21:42 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (The presence of "peace" is the absence of opposition to socialism -- Marx)
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To: wagglebee
Sure sounds like Mr. Oral Sex is a wee bit WORRIED about GORELICK GATE and BERGER BURGLAR GATE hitting the big media..............hehe........'thumbody' sounds a wee widdle bit like he wants to REWRITE history....hehe....
59 posted on 08/15/2005 8:21:47 PM PDT by Republic (Our Father in Heaven touched the Pope, who KNEW of Terri, Terri got her mass, VATICAN STYLE!)
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To: The Mayor

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

"What a piece of work he is."

The, "coulda, woulda, shoulda" is almmost exactly what I thought when I read this. But my brain said, "woulda, coulda, shoulda". And we also came close to having the same second thought. Mine was, "What a piece of 'hit he is". LOL


60 posted on 08/15/2005 8:22:01 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything)
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