How many times did Bush fail to kill OBL?

[underpants]

I was listening to CBS's new co-anchor of the evening news, Rush Limbaugh, reading an op-ed piece by an author whose name I missed the one time it was mentioned. Rush never tells you who or what he is reading more than once lest you might want to read it for yourself you see. Anyway this writer was extremely critical of Clinton and Richard Clarke and their FAILED attempts to kill Bin Laden. Rest assured, loyal listeners, this writer is a favorite guest of Chris Mathews so we are not talking about some partisan hack (the voice from my car told me).

Well in this piece the writer states that Clinton failed in all of the 8-10 chances he had to kill Bin Laden (to all degrees that that could be true I guess) but remember..... Bush never had a chance to kill Bin Laden before 9/11.....

:shrug: Hold it, how can that be? :shrug:

Having actually read both the 9/11 Commission report and Richard Clarke's book I know that we didn't know that alQaeda existed until 1996. We now attribute the 1993 WTC bombing, that "middle America" was just so heartsick about, to alQaeda -- this is a rather new development in and of itself. So if in the last 4 years of his presidency Clinton (personally I guess) had 8-10 chances to kill Bin Laden how could Bush have had NO chances in a full 8 months (233 days) before 9/11?

How can that be?

[zbdent]

1. Well, it's day 2057 since 1/20/2001, when Bush took office

and was already aware of the threat Osama bin Laden was to this country, since the papers had the info that the USS Cole mastermind was ObL ...

But why didn't Ollie North fly over in a covert operation and take out ObL in the 80s, when the mythical e-mail said that he was afraid of ObL and that Gore killed the investigations? Oh, that's right ... even Ollie North says that's bullshit!!!

[w4rma]

2. If Bush ignores Richard Clarke's and John O'Neil's warnings and shuts down

the investigations on OBL then Bush might not have had any chances to kill OBL before 911.

In fact, I think that's exactly what happened. The Bush administration wasn't trying to kill OBL before 911. They had thought that Clinton was "obsessing" over OBL.

[bdamomma]

3. bush just let him go, there is a connection between Bin Laden

and the Bush Crime Family, it's all about the oil. oh, I forgot the closed the division who was going to find Bin Laden now they are opening that division again to find him. Talk about flip flop.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. None.

He hasn't made a serious attempt yet.

Well, I shouldn't say that. There was Tora Bora.

Otherwise, we get his idiot DCI on television saying "We know where Osama is" and, assuming there was any truth in that, we didn't know any more after he opened his big mouth.