Bush Aides Deny Getting Plan to Fight Al Qaeda [Another 'BUSH-KNEW!!' campaign]

Reuters via WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Monday, August 5, 2002

[JohnHuang2]

Monday, August 5, 2002

Quote of the Day by Mr. Bird

[Oldeconomybuyer]

a plan to strike at al Qaeda was developed in the final days of the Clinton administration

So why would the Clinton administration wait until their final days to develop this "aggressive" plan to strike al Qaeda when they recognized the threat as far back as 1993? It appears that Clinton/Gore were either imcompetent or not interested in national security between 1993 and 2000, or wanted to leave a little CYA on the way out of office ...

[XBob]

I read a bit about this so far, and as far as I can determine, the Clinton administration, particularly the NSA idiot, Sandy Berger, never developed a plan, and apparently an old Bush 1, holdover, developed some recommendations finally at the end of the 8 years of inaction by xlinton, and turned it in to Berger, who ignored it.

But there was no plan, no implementation, only a few unimplemented recommendations.

Please, someone, if I have this wrong, please advise.

IMHO This is just another blowin snow job by the incompetent fools from the xlinton admin trying to defend their incompetence and blame Bush.

Even it there were a plan, Did they want Bush to bomb another apirin factory? or a few more goat herders? Bush people had to check it out.

[lonestar]

Time Magazine reported on Sunday that a plan to strike at al Qaeda was developed in the final days of the Clinton administration and presented to President Bush's new national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, in January 2001.

A typical Clinton plan would have been, "We'll give you a presidential pardon you if you promise not to do it again."

[JohnHuang2]

This latest alibi is phonier than a $3 bill.

Fact: OBL struck the WTC not once, but twice.

The first time: February, '93. X42 treated it, not as international terrorism, but an ordinary crime.

[Redleg Duke]

Typical lying Clintonoids. They always revise history to cover their mistakes.

[KLT]

Hah, Hah, Hah...Clintoooon is still spinning! The man is despicable!

[JohnHuang2]

Clintoooon is still spinning!

As Cal Thomas just remarked on FOXNEWS, X42 is on a campaign of self-redemption.

[brbethke]

Rather than issuing the usual polite denials, I think Bush needs to take off the gloves for this one.

"Look, people, this report came out of the White House of confessed perjurer William Jefferson Clinton. You're damn right we wanted to fact-check it before we acted on it!"

[linn37]

big big lie and easy to refute,just look the statements by Clinton, Sandy Berger and Maddys Notsobright right after 9-11 not one mention of a PLAN.

[Linda Liberty]

This is ridiculous, and serves mainly
to make Clinton look even
worse than he did before.

[JohnHuang2]

Rather than issuing the usual polite denials, I think Bush needs to take off the gloves for this one.

The thing is, this "story" has ZERO credibility, just as all earlier 'BUSH-NEW!' smear campaigns (there've been several).

[AmericanInTokyo]

Sheesh. Must be election time...

[teletech]

More BS from a RAT controlled rag.

[hflynn]

The Bush White House denied a report on Sunday that the Clinton administration gave it an aggressive plan to take on al Qaeda that languished for eight months because of the change in presidents.

Am I to assume the Clinton Administration conceived this agressive plan to take on al Qaeda in between pardon decisions during the final days of the Clintons and that it lanquished for 8 hours during the Clinton Administration?

Am I to assume Clinton was going to be "real agressive" like WTC I, Somalia or the USS Cole attacks?

Gee did't the Bush Administration let the agressive Clinton Administration plan to reduce arsenic levels in water, signed on Clinton's last day in office, lanquish?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

So...where was the plan during the Algore campaign ? Must've been quite a secret, eh ?

[ventana]

What they described doesn't sound like a plan, it sounds like a musing. Y'know, what should we have for dinner: Pizza or Chinese. Clymers and whiners. V's wife.

[JohnHuang2]

Had there been a real plan, Clinton and the gang wouldn't have waited a year to air it.

[JohnHuang2]

Well said.

[300winmag]

Typical lying Clintonoids. They always revise history to cover their mistakes.

It's more than that. Remember that the klintons obstructed the Bush transition team at every turn. And that's after they spent a month trying to steal the election for Algore.

Now, eleven months after 9-11, they suddenly remember they gave this detailed plan to Bush. Did they leave it on the seat in the limo and it got overlooked?

This is about as authentic as Bill's memory of all those burning black churches in Arkansas.