You all know I remain a clinton hater. So I am prepared for the firestorm over this.
I think Bill Clinton means it. This is the closest he can dare to come as a former president so I welcome his statement.
Clinton was very willing to use violence when he felt certain who was the "perp".
I recall clearly that we could not positively ID the "perp" after the USS Cole was bombed. We were all stunned. He had a difficut time politically getting the FBI on scene to help determine who did it.
I for one thank former President Clinton for saying this.
He did what with the wat now?
For this?
"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. Then we could have launched an attack on Afghanistan early. I don't know if it would have prevented 9/11. But it certainly would have complicated it."
clinton puffs his chest and takes a jab at President Bush, and you want to thank him for it?
Read it again if you must... This comment is poor attempt to make himself look better and make President Bush look worse. With this comment, he is saying that by the time it was confirmed that osama was behind the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, it was too late for him to act, because he wasn't president; unlike President Bush, who could have acted sooner, but for some reason did not.