An FB friend is pushing the whole "Clinton had his chance to catch OBL"

[Lorien]

story. Does anyone have any links to show the GOP's involvement in stopping him?

Thanks!

[Swamp Rat]

1. Don't waste your time.

Don't waste time trying to defend against utter bull shit. Just go on the offensive. :)

[Cassandra]

2. He didn't have that chance.

The guy who said he had OBL was scamming for money. Bush, OTOH, did have a chance and blew it.

[seeinfweggos]

3. when clinton DID try to take him out with a missile strike

the gop cried "wag the dog" as it was in the midst of the monica l scandal. i do believe there was another oportunity to kill him that was not taken advantage of because a quatari prince or someone like that was present.

[Lorien]

5. I'm wondering how the GOP managed to stop him from making that strike

did he need an authorization from congress? I'm just looking for a link to offer him. He claims to be non-partisan, but he sure does spend a lot of time bashing Dems.

[seeinfweggos]

9. they criticized the ones he did make

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Defense Secretary William Cohen on Tuesday defended President Clinton's use of the military to protect national security interests, returning to a sharp GOP-led criticism of Clinton at a time when he was embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

At that time, some GOP lawmakers used the phrase "wag the dog" to describe Clinton's military actions, saying he was using conflicts abroad to deflect attention from the domestic scandal. A movie of the same name came out in 1997, and the plot involves a presidential administration that launches a war as a political ploy.
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Clinton came under intense criticism in 1998 by the GOP after he launched an attack on suspected terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. Intelligence indicated bin Laden and his top associates were meeting at a training camp when U.S. missiles were fired at it, just weeks after al Qaeda terrorists bombed U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/23/wag.dog/

[laughingliberal]

4. Here's the refutation of one of the claims they are fond of making

http://mediamatters.org/mobile/research/200406220008

edited to add: look for a big push on these stories again now that their boy, Shrub, has been called out for letting OBL escape at Tora Bora.

[Lorien]

7. Thanks laughingliberal!

:hi:

[MadMaddie]

6. Clinton's administration attempted to brief the * administration

on the escalating threats and traffic of an impending event.


http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/1135

Richard Clark has been at the forefront of trying to tell the world that the * administration wasn't intrested in Terrorism. They were only worried about their ideology.
http://www.perrspectives.com/images/Cog_Dissonance_911_033004.pdf


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Rice’s testimony confirms that there were 33 meetings of high-level members of the Bush administration in 2001 before there was any meeting on the problem of counter-terrorism.
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The Bush administration received a greater number of warnings from April to June 2001 about the likelihood of terrorist attacks, but kept that information to key members of the government, enabling Attorney General John Ashcroft to make a decision to stop flying on commercial aircraft and Secretary of State Colin Powell to warn members of the foreign service to be careful in making travel plans.
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[laughingliberal]

12. Those are great links. I keep looking for the stories on the 4/30/01 report on

"Patterns of Global Terrorism." This was the annual report issued by *'s administration. I remember the press questioned them because there was no mention of OBL or Al Qaeda which had figured heavily in the previous reports by Clinton's administration. Their answer was they felt there had been too much emphasis on this in the past and, generally, called the previous administration's focus into question as unnecessary. Can't find a link to the story from back then.

[Gman]

8. There was nothing to catch him for at that point in time

that we could prove. The problem the RW has with this is the phrase "that we could prove." They don't think we should have had to prove anything. There's nothing you can discuss about this because normal people believe in having proof. Wingers are concerned with their hate of other people first.

[treestar]

10. Dusted that one off since it has become apparent dubya had his chance

DU had a whole storm on that ABC special, 'The path to 911'

[Bitwit1234]

11. Well if you are interested maybe you can find it thru

googling bombing attack. During the Clinton administration the CIA gave Clinton a location for bin laden. He got approval from congress (evidently he had to then) and when he bombed bin laden had been notified and he was gone. Later the CIA again located him but congress wouldn't give approval for the attack so bin laden got away.

If you really want to blame someone - first..blame the CIA for wrong information and - second..the republican majority in congress who wouldn't give approval for the second bomb attack. So throw that back at them.

[UTUSN]

13. Neh, neh, OBL got away from: SHRUB-CHEENEE!1 n/t