Ok ...lets take it a step farther....
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Some things the US citizens should never forget:
After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured 1,000; President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
Maybe if Clinton had kept his promise, an estimated 7,000 people in New York and Washington, D.C. that are now dead would be alive today.
breakthechain.org
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Clinton Admits Doubts About His Administration's al-Qaeda Response
Posted April 9, 2004
By Shaun Waterman
The commission probing the Sept. 11 terror attacks met Thursday with former President Bill Clinton in a three-and-a-half hour, closed-door session during which, commissioners said, he expressed some doubts about his administration's response to terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda.
"He was very frank. He gave us a lot of very helpful insight into things that happened [and his] policy approaches [to them]," said Reagan-era Navy secretary commissioner John F. Lehman.
The meeting -- though likely to be overshadowed by the public testimony under oath the commission heard the same day from current National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice -- brings into sharp relief long-standing allegations that Clinton's response to a series of attacks by Islamic terrorists made the United States appear weak and encouraged al-Qaeda in their belief that they could strike the United States with impunity.
"We did go into some of the obvious criticisms of the eight years under his tenure," Lehman told CNN, after news of the Clinton meeting broke late Thursday afternoon.
He added that the former president was now second-guessing some of the decisions that he made at that time. "He was very frank, very open about talking about some decisions where, had he known some things, [they] might have gone one way or another way."
The commission -- formally known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Against the United States -- has already reported that there were several occasions after the attacks on two U.S. embassies in East Africa when senior officials might have had an opportunity to order terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden killed, either with cruise missiles or by locally recruited Afghan CIA agents.
On four occasions in 1998-99, commission investigators said at a hearing last month, officials -- including counterterrorism tzar Richard A. Clarke, CIA Director George Tenet and Clinton National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger -- opted not to strike locations where bin Laden was thought to be. Officials said their information was not certain enough and the number of innocent civilians who might be killed was unacceptably high.
Commissioners said they also asked Clinton about policy matters. "We asked him a host of big questions, big policy recommendations," said former Indiana Democratic congressman and commission member Tim Roemer.
The former president's office said in a statement that Clinton was "pleased" to have had the opportunity to meet with the panel "and believed it was a very constructive meeting."
Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, who was Clinton's deputy attorney general, told CNN that the former president -- as he is wont -- was very voluble. "He even answered questions we didn't ask," she joked.
Commissioner Slade Gorton, the former GOP senator from Washington state, added that the meeting ran over by almost an hour but was "very valuable" because "President Clinton has done a lot of thinking since he left office on issues like this," and said the commission was grateful for his advice.
Both panelists also took the opportunity to comment on papers from the Clinton White House, which, though provided to the current administration by the former president's archive, were not turned over to the commission.
After the issue was brought to light by former Clinton official Bruce R. Lindsey, commission lawyers were given access to the papers and concluded that, of more than 10,000 documents, less than 70 were relevant to their inquiry and not duplicative of material already obtained elsewhere.
"We haven't gotten them yet," Gorton said of the documents, "and they are relevant to our mission. ... We fully expect that we will get all of them so that they can inform our ultimate report."
"Now that we found out why it was that we didn't get certain Clinton administration documents that were withheld by the White House," added Gorelick, "we're going to issue a parallel request for similar Bush administration documents."
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Links upon links of what Clinton didn't do. He was to blame 1st don't you think?
Bush did plenty. Bush is doing plenty. Bush WILL continue to do plenty.
So many so quick to lay blame. So many so quick to point fingers.
Yet...So few to take the bull by the horns and get done what needs to be done. So few to do the dirty part of the job.
Ohhh...but the finger pointers...they will be there pointing...Demonstrating...ma
rching and saying we have no business doing anything basically.
I guess maybe I am one of very very few people that think that if you hit me once shame on you...but 3 or 4 times? eek: Thats when it becomes , at least in my mind , time to make sure you NEVER have that chance again.
Could Bush have done more prior to 9/11? No..I don't think so. Did he do anything? Yes...He STARTED his presidency. HE was doinig what ALL presidents do. Sorting thru info. Making policies , trying to get his administration going strong in the 1st year.
I say to you Finger pointers....
Lighten Up...Yall's Hero Cliniton lobbed cruise missles because he had to overcome White Spots on Dresses and funny scented Cigars. And misssed to boot.
