War on Terror started early for USS Cole

Reno Gazette Journal ^ | 8/7/02 | Ray Hagar

[In Search of Freedom]

Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold, skipper of the USS Cole, attacked by terrorists while moored at Aden, Yemen, discusses his experiences following the attack at a Rotary meeting in Carson City.

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[In Search of Freedom]

“You have to remember that we had gone almost eight years of being sensitized to being hit by terrorists and really taking no affirmative action other than putting a couple of Tomahawks (missiles) downrange,” Lippold said. “In ’93 there was the World Trade Center (bombing), in ’96 there was (the bombing of) the Khobar towers. In ’98, there was (the bombing of) the embassy in Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania and the Cole in 2000 before the (Sept. 11 attack on) the World Trade Center hit us.

“I think that was a failing and that was one of the things that came out of the investigation when I was hit,” he said. “It wasn’t just one person who failed. It was failure up and down the chain of command and it continued on a very large scale even after my ship got hit. We ended up jeopardizing our nation in so many ways. It was just inconceivable that that depth of hatred existed and that people would go to those levels to attack us.”

Without saying it specifically, he is referring to Clinton's lack of action in dealing with terrorists that we are in the position we are in now, and now Clinton is trying to say that he gave a plan to Bush. Clinton had 8 years to take action and it looks like the only action he was focused on was Interns.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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