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Slick Willy warned Bush of Osama...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton says he warned President George W. Bush before he left office in 2001 that Osama bin Laden was the biggest security threat the United States faced.
I wonder when this meeting took place because of the many, MANY recounts in Florida.
Speaking at a luncheon sponsored by the History Channel on Wednesday, Clinton said he discussed security issues with Bush in his "exit interview," a formal and often candid meeting between a sitting president and the president-elect. "In his campaign, Bush had said he thought the biggest security issue was Iraq and a national missile defence," Clinton said. "I told him that in my opinion, the biggest security problem was Osama bin Laden."
Since he let him go on at least one occasion.
Time magazine reported last year that a plan for the United States to launch attacks against the al-Qaeda network languished for eight months because of the change in presidents and was approved only a week before the September 11 attacks.
Yup, Bill was going to get right on that and Al would have followed through if elected.
But the White House disputed parts of that story, which was published by the magazine in August 2002. "The Clinton administration did not present an aggressive new plan to topple al-Qaeda during the transition," a White House spokesman, Sean McCormack, said at the time.
So who is telling the truth here?
The White House was clearly irritated by the report, which appeared to suggest that the Bush administration might not have done all it could to prevent the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
If only Clinton could have remained in office another term!
At Wednesday’s luncheon, Clinton said his inability to convince Bush of the danger from al Qaeda was "one of the two or three of the biggest disappointments that I had."
Another being the lack of horny 19-year-old interns when he left office.
Clinton said that after bin Laden, the next security priority would have been the absence of a Middle East peace agreement, followed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
And he would have worked on those, except he was busy with ‘staff’ issues.
"I would have started with India and Pakistan, then North Korea, and then Iraq after that," he said. "I thought Iraq was a lower order problem than al Qaeda."
Didn’t that troll go to North Korea and sign a ‘peace’ agreement with Kimmy? I think they danced too!
Clinton’s vice president Al Gore, who ran against Bush in the 2000 election, did not make the threat from al Qaeda a major focus of the presidential campaign, which both candidates kept focused mainly on domestic topics.
Because all the previous statements are a desperate attempt to repair the image of his Presidency.

Is it me but the more you learn about the Clinton administration you feel that they did very little to safeguard our nation? The exception being that brave (but brutal) storming of that religious group in Waco. Thank god we were saved from a group of people who believed in god and wanted to live in a community together. This President (and Dimmy) makes me ill every time I hear him. If he was aware of these problems, why didn’t he solve them while he WAS in office? Can we send them to some deserted island where Dimmy can build houses and Billy can molest interns?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-10-16
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