Financial Shakeup this weekend

[nplenzick]

Wellardmac wrote:

nplenzick wrote:

Wellardmac wrote:

Yes, we were aware of the threats to national security. Bush was warned about Bin Laden when he took office.

Syria offered to deliver Bin Laden to us and we didn't take him.

Clinton had the chance to bomb him out of existence and didn't take the opportunity.

The fact is that the Clinton and Bush administrations knew about the problems with Bin Laden (remember the USS Cole bombings?) and the issues were clearly documented in the 9/11 report.

The "Intelligence" in CIA is an oxymoron.

(BTW, the veto I mentioned above was for Stem Cell Research - can't spend money on science! )

Actually the only one who has come close to killing Bin Laden was President Clinton. If I remember they missed him by 20 min. He was with a Saudi official at the time. Richard Clarke who was the Secretary of Defense ( and a Republican) has verified that in his book. Interesting to note he was the Secretary for Regan, Bush Sr, and Clinton only to be fired GB Jr.

Clinton had bombers in the air and recalled them.

And I believe he recalled them because of the Saudi official that Bin Laden was with. President Clinton in an interview years latter regretted the decision. He was concerned and rightly so that if took out Bin Laden and the Saudi ( he may have been a prince ) that things could have gotten out of hand in the Middle East. If he would have known what was to have happen on 9-11 who would have taken the chance. It's something he admitted that he'll have to live with the rest of his life.

It's not like he had a hole lot of backing at the time, as the republicans were trying to burn he's ass for lying about the now famous BJ.