Posted on 05/18/2002 6:03:53 PM PDT by BJClinton
I predicted they'd be backpedalling SUNDAY.....hmmmm, if this is their new "mantra" then why the H*LL didn't they do this months ago.....and WHY are we not PROFILING certain Middle Eastern types.......I want to see a Senator or Representative stand up and call for PROFILING.....and watch the Dems......
Two partial truths, adding up to a lie.
It is time to connect the dots for some of our less cerebral friends from the left.
Bush and Co were working on plans for the elimination of the Taliban. There were a couple of problems though.
1. Clinton and the military staff had made no effort to update the cold war organizational structure of the military. Hence the top down (out of cycle) review of the DOD. I feel sure this review was in response to the initial threat analysis provided by his national security team. The necessary changes took time and could not be accomplished prior to 9/11. If they could have been, then the action plan that was delevered to Bush on 9/9 would have been there months sooner.
2. Bush accelerated production of new generation of weapons systems (halted by Clinton) which are now being used to route out the enemy. Had Clinton not halted development, these weapons systems would have been operational in time to be part of a proactive move against Ben Laden. Even given those problems (and against all odds), the Bush National Security Team almost had a mechanism in place before 9/11.
But now comes the really troubling part.
Today we know the Airlines were notified of general threats and intel committees of both houses of Congress briefed on the same issue. The only thing we don't know is who else knew of the President's plan to take on and take out Osama and Co.? There are indications that the attack dates were moved up (This from Ben Laden himself who on tape expressed surprise that the attack happened when they did, expecting it to be at a later date). Were any of the intellegence committees briefed in this? We know that a few Dems are hard wired into radical Islamic groups. Dissemination of information like this among those groups could have worked its way to one or more of the participants and could have changed the time table for the attack. It appears that the President was moving quickly to eliminate the threat. Who gave away the plan?
Vague, misleading writing by professionals. Are we to believe that such a construct would see print if it cast a favorable misimpression of GW?
Oh, come on now!
Oh, I forgot, the king of PC couldn't inspire himself to do something like his job description requires such as protecting and defending Americans and her borders, but would rather run around while working hard for the American people in the oval office with a loose cigar with his pants falling around his knobby knees in between fundraising, entertaining in the Lincoln Bedroom, serving coffee and posing for Esquire Magazine.
Mrs. Clinton perhaps instead of appearing like such a sainted politician who is only asking the questions your constituents want asked why did you not ever ask your own dear husband back in the good old days when you co-presidents occupied the White House "what he knew, when did he know it and what did he do about it?"
I dont know about the typo theory. The current article has several paragraphs discussing the controversy about President Bush. Bush this, Bush that. Then they slip in a reveltion that "the president" had been briefed back in 1998. Originally it had said President Bush and it was at the front of the article. Now it was moved to the end (after all the Bush discussion) and rather than change "President Bush" to "President Clinton" they just made it "the president". If that isnt blatant bias to create a perception that Bush has known far more than he tells then it is certainly incredible sloppiness. Calling it a typo doesnt cut it.
The Washington Post reported Saturday that a 1998 top-secret briefing memo to the president was entitled, “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S” and focused mainly on past efforts by the alleged terrorist mastermind to infiltrate the U.S. and hit targets here.The document, known as the President's Daily Briefing, underscored that bin Laden and his followers hoped to "bring the fight to America," in part as retaliation for U.S. missile strikes on al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998, the Post quotes knowledgeable sources as saying.
Note their use of "the president"; president not being capitalized. Who are their "knowledgeable sources" ?????
My suspicion is that the real reason for bombing bin Laden's training camp was that it was bombed in retaliation for all those burnings of black churches in Arkansas during Clinton's youth....
LOL :)
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