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2003-09-02 Home Front

Clinton âmissed chance to get rid of bin Ladenâ

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Posted by someone 2003-09-02 8:07:50 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ..senior members of the Clinton White House did confirm, in interviews for the book, that they shied away from an attack immediately after the Cole bombing for reasons of diplomacy and military caution.

Or put simply, the U.S. military machine wasn't ready, and Bubba's administration was more concerned with being "liked" by everybody else that sending a clear message to the terror-meisters.

Janet Reno, then the attorney general, said an attack would break international law.

Isn't terrorism against "international law"?

Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state, is quoted as saying that "bombing Muslims wouldnât be helpful at this time".

Wouldn't be helpful to what exactly? To her need to be liked by terrorist organization leaders?

Most controversially, the book quotes William Cohen, then the defence secretary, as saying the Cole attack "was not sufficiently provocative" and retaliation might cause trouble in Pakistan.

Well hell, how about attacking another couple of ships and killing a few more American service personnel? How many deaths would have been "provocative" enough to warrant a response? As far as I'm concerned, the answer is ONE.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-2 8:44:33 PM|| 2003-9-2 8:44:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 This is par for the course for these clowns. It's just like bailing from Mogadishu after the Black Hawk Down episode and blowing up an asparin factory in Sudan after the 1998 embassy bombings.

The most outrageous quote is Cohen's (and not just because he is a "republican"). That's just what the troops want to hear from their civilian leader -- the deaths of 17 and wounding of dozens more (not to mention the near sinking of an $800 million ship) is not worthy of a response.

This is just another major crack in the vaunted Clinton legacy.

Posted by Tibor 2003-9-2 9:21:49 PM|| 2003-9-2 9:21:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I remember that day -- I remember the horror of once again watching the news... seeing the horrors, knowing the intense pain we all suffered with the death of our servicemen....

And knowing, deep down in my heart... as I watched the story unfold...... that nothing would be done... Yes, nothing....

As much as I could, I willed someway, somehow, we would do something.... but I knew.... deep down inside, where it really hurts.... that the words would come..... but the actions wouldn't be there...

Why should they be? The 2000 year of the election was coming. Let those folks deal with this problem.

History will tell -- and it won't be a pretty picture

Posted by Sara 2003-9-2 10:48:55 PM|| 2003-9-2 10:48:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Tibor: a crack in the legacy? This is the legacy.

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-2 11:00:29 PM|| 2003-9-2 11:00:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Whoa--remember the comments of the lunatic right when Clinton sent some cruise missiles--he was wagging the dog to distract from Monica! Ya can't have it both ways. But of course ya believe the liar in chief and the lobotomized Condi Rice's view

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-9-2 11:07:41 PM|| 2003-9-2 11:07:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 But of course ya believe the liar in chief and the lobotomized Condi Rice's view

What the current administration came up with was the correct response, instead of Bill "Perjury" Clinton's half-assed cruise missile campaign. Yeah, nothing like a little military action to distract people from that teensy little Monica problem....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-2 11:49:04 PM|| 2003-9-2 11:49:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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