Cheney Forgot

[30ashopper]

For the record, Clinton did make efforts to strike Al Queda. He did fully warn the incoming administration of the eminent Al Queda threat. If anyone in the US govenment was to blame for allowing 9/11 it might be the National Security Advisor, Condolezza Rice (and a host of other incompetent cronies).

Do you guys really want to compare "not remembering" the details of an affair over 15 years ago to willingly committing this country to the biggest foreign relations blunder in our history?

Links?

 

[30ashopper]

Right.......so should have Sr. Bush and even Ronnie. You look at the history of how we have treated the middle east and it is far, far deeper than the Clinton era....

But since you are throwing the blame....who took their eye off the prize in Afganistan and put the vast majority of our forces in Sadam's back yard to fix his daddy's failure? Perhaps if "W"(or the penguin) would have stayed focus we wouldn't be fighting two wars....As you would say....Just a thought;-)

Nope. This was something only Clinton had the opportunity to address. The Taliban did not become a threat to us until his tenure.

The first major military activity of the Taliban was in October-November 1994 when they marched from Maiwand in southern Afghanistan to capture Kandahar City and the surrounding provinces, losing only a few dozen men.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban"]Taliban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[30ashopper]

For the record, Clinton did make efforts to strike Al Queda. He did fully warn the incoming administration of the eminent Al Queda threat. If anyone in the US govenment was to blame for allowing 9/11 it might be the National Security Advisor, Condolezza Rice (and a host of other incompetent cronies).

Do you guys really want to compare "not remembering" the details of an affair over 15 years ago to willingly committing this country to the biggest foreign relations blunder in our history?

Here, let me help -

The Taliban and the Clinton Administration - Brief History of the Taliban

 

[30ashopper]

You know I'll be more than happy to step up and agree that Bush made some serious mistakes, or that Cheney did the same. But why do democrats endlessly defend their man Clinton? What can that possibly accomplish? He is culpable in all of this, plain and simple.

 

[Lynnie]

Clinton could have prevented the whole thing by doing something about the Taliban. He had ample warnings throughout his tenure as President. So in a not-so-funny way, he's to blame for it all. Maybe if he had spent a little less time splattering blue dresses , nobody would have died on 9/11 and we wouldn't be fighting two wars? Just a thought.

Great point - interesting to ponder as to how progressed the Terrorist Cells were at that time and would we have been attacked regardless?

Osama bin Laden: missed opportunities - Nightly News- msnbc.com

And, this~~~~

Little Green Footballs - Clinton Lied, Bin Laden Didn't Die

To further support~~~~

Clinton Lied About Authorizing Killing Bin Laden - IRIS Blog

As Kurt mentioned in another thread: people will see things as they choose.

Clinton lied about trying to kill or capture Osama bin Laden. He had three oppportunities.

I find it interesting how history can be rewritten in this country.

 

[LuciferSam]

Clinton could have prevented the whole thing by doing something about the Taliban. He had ample warnings throughout his tenure as President. So in a not-so-funny way, he's to blame for it all. Maybe if he had spent a little less time splattering blue dresses , nobody would have died on 9/11 and we wouldn't be fighting two wars? Just a thought.

Bush had a chance to prevent 9/11 regardless of past history of previous administrations. He's like a relief pitcher with a chance at a save and ends up with the loss instead because he throws a wild pitch with the winning run on third.

 

[AlphaCrab]

Bush and Company totally fell asleep on the Al Queda issue and let our country down because, for him, "small" (as in inattentive) government is/was "the" Republican catch word du jour, and I might add STILL is.... one in which they based their entire national and international policy at the time...

Whoot-there it is!

 

[Lynnie]

It's all Bush's fault, isn't it?

 

[30ashopper]

 

[Lake View Too]

I don't have links to the rather common knowledge event that a tomahawk missile strike was initiated by Clinton against the a meeting of the Al Queda leadership in Afghan. It failed. A simultaneous strike in the Sudan took out what was believed to be a chemical weapons plant. I'm not saying the Clinton administration did a great job of curbing Al Queda. As I recall, he was battling impeachment for most of the last year and a half of his terms. He was battling impeachment and the FBI was being used to interview Monica's mother, among other stunningly stupid things because of one blow job. Seems like the Republican blood lust for Clinton's demise may have diverted quite a lot of our country's resources, money, and attention, at a citical time in this country's history. It sure was a good thing that Cheney and Dubya came in to straighten things out. Whether anyone wants to remember or not, 9/11 happen on Bush's watch, the Iraq war was initiated on Bush's watch, the Afghan war was ignored on Bush's watch, the debacle of Katrina relief happened on Bush's watch, and the economic collapse happened on Bush's watch. All I say is "heck of a job, Brownie!"