Posted on 08/01/2014 1:06:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hours before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, former President Bill Clinton told an audience in Australia about his missed chance to kill attack mastermind Osama bin Laden, according to audio released this week.
Clinton was speaking at a business meeting in Melbourne when the topic turned to terrorism.
“I’m just saying, you know, if I were Osama bin Laden ... He’s a very smart guy. I spent a lot of time thinking about him. And I nearly got him once,” Clinton said in the audio, which was recorded by former Liberal Party head Michael Kroger and aired by Sky News.
“I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have had to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
I’m sure the billion from the House of Saud assuaged his guilt feelings.
Oh. Well, to hell with him, then.
No, Massoud, not one.
Didn’t Syria have OBL in their crosshairs, called BC and he just rubbed his chin and went , “Mmmmmmmmmmmmm....”?
I think the Saudi’s and the others in the mideast own many US and British politicians.
1. Was the level of attention Bubba has been receiving of late proving inadequate?
2. An observation, apropos of nothing much: No U. S. military person was ordered into harms way or risked injury or death at the hands of an armed adversary as a direct consequence of an order emanating from C-in-C Clinton. I’m a bit surprised that he has not made this point. (The Kosovo dust-up was “farmed out” to NATO).
What exactly did Sandy Bergler [sic] destroy? Bush's fault Berger didn't get what he deserved.
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