[quote]hedo wrote:
100meters wrote:
rainjack wrote:
100meters wrote:
rainjack wrote:
orion wrote:
Was there a major succesful attack on US soil under Clinton?
No?
According to Bush`s logic that makes him the better anti-terror presdident…
WTC - 1993?
What do you consider “major”? 100 deaths? How much damage?
3000 deaths or so at WTC, pentagon, pa, seems pretty major, especially when your policy was a de-emphasis on terror.
I’d say 11,000 terrorist attacks last years is “major damage” with 56 more US civilians dead.
This on top of 175 in '03, 675 in '04.
Bush’s response has been to try and stop the 9/ll commission,fight a half-assed war in afghanistan, not finish it, underfund and under-man it, and give pakistan final say over what we can do. Then invaded a totally unrelated country, with no planning, under-man it, and then not take it seriously.
Meanwhile he still hasn’t tried and executed any of the 9/11 related prisoners.
In short he has no balls. And he coddles terrorists. And your party coddles him. NO OVERSIGHT by your congress.
But as awful as he’s been, as you’ve guys been, I mean literally one of the worst track records ever with inept idiots running the military so badly, people who don’t even understand what strategy is (Bush, Rummy, Franks…) and domestic disasters… even with all that you guys will probably still win.
Because you have an agnostic man, who loved his gay step-father as his own who goes out and divides the country over queers and christianity, then preys on their fears (lets bin laden win) to win by 50% + 1. You guys have Karl Rove.
But still 'tards like JeffR and headhunter will proudly proclaim "we raised terrorism 1100%!!! or "we lost 20,000 US troops to horrible injuries all in an effort to create more terrorists!!!“or “We totally f–ked up in Afghanistan, and tried to capture bin laden with just 8 CIA guys who asked for a batallion of rangers and instead got 40 man delta-force team” What did you democrats do??”
We’d have to fight another 30 years to lose 20K troops at this pace.
It’s way too easy for the CLinto-philes to blame Bush. But your guy had him dead to rights more times than can be counted, and he did nothing. NOTHING.
Once again - 8 years of Clinton v. 8 months of Bush. Clinton has blood on his hands - you are just too partisan to see it.
It only took 3 and half years to get 20k. (I wasn’t talking about deaths)
When did Clinton have a shot and not take it? Answer: never.
How’s about Bush? Men ON THE GROUND on his trail, asking for a battalion and NOT GETTING IT!!!
Big difference.
You’ve yet to explain how Bush deprioritizing, defunding terror in his first 8 months and not responding to intel’s frantic attempts at getting his attention, and republicans attempts at defanging Clinton’s anti-terror measures puts the “blood” on clinton’s hands.
Your guy didn’t do shit(and still doesn’t)
Our guy could have done more (and your guys tried to stop what he did.)
Again big difference.
Hang one of those responsible for 9/11 and then get back to me cowards.
Here’s a rundown. The Clinton administration:
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Did not follow-up on the attempted bombing of Aden marines in Yemen. Nothing.
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Shut the CIA out of the 1993 WTC bombing investigation, hamstringing their effort to capture bin Laden.
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Had Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a key bin Laden lieutenant, slip through their fingers in Qatar.
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Did not militarily react to the al Qaeda bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Did not accept the Sudanese offer to turn bin Laden in 1996. Well documented by State and the Sudanese.
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Did not follow-up on another offer from Sudan through a private back channel.
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Objected to Northern Alliance efforts to assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan and prevented them from doing so.
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Decided against using special forces to take down bin Laden in Afghanistan. Bush did and took down the Taliban and dismemebred Al-Queda’a safe harbor.
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Did not take an opportunity to take into custody two al Qaeda operatives involved in the East African embassy bombings. Sudan arrested these two terrorists and offered them to the FBI. The Clinton administration declined to pick them up and they were later allowed to return to Pakistan.
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Ordered an ineffectual, token missile strike against a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory. This convinced Bin-Laden he had nothing to fear. He didn’t from CLinton.
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Clumsily tipped off Pakistani officials sympathetic to bin Laden before a planned missile strike against bin Laden on August 20, 1998. Bin Laden left the camp with only minutes to spare.
12-14. Three times, Clinton hesitated or deferred in ordering missile strikes against bin Laden in 1999 and 2000.
- When they finally launched and armed the Predator spy drone plane, which captured amazing live video images of bin Laden, the Clinton administration no longer had military assets in place to strike the archterrorist. The Clinton administration fought against the idea of arming the predator for 3 yrs.
Clinton was a pussy. The Democrats have been on the wrong side of every initiative to defeat terrorism. Defending Clinton on terrorism is comical. It’s also a very good reason why the US voter will never trust them in fighting terrorism or on issues of National Defense.
If Clinton had of acted boldly on any number of occasions he could have killed Bin-Laden. His law enforcement approach was a joke, and one you still call for. It led directly to the deaths of the wTC victims. Law enforcement is a tool, one of many tools. It was also a tool that Clinton also didn’t support.If if was that easy why don’t we just arrest all the terrorists?
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Dominant post.
No one with a functioning brainstem would defend clinton’s sorry ass on this issue.
I wanted to offer some insight into the limitations of domestic law enforcement as the primary shield against terrorists. It’s just too difficult to intercept all terrorist plots. The rats only have to be right once. Law enforcement has to be correct 100%. The rats know the law and how to manipulate it. They know how to fly under the radar.
I wanted to tell you just how SICK and ANGRY my friends and I are when we hear the democrats (and sympathetic Republicans) crowing over weakening of counter-terrorism techniques.
We were furious to hear harry reid proudly announcing that he’d “killed the Patriot Act.”
I can guarantee that the rats took notice.
I hope and believe that that appeasement and show of weakness will come home to haunt his party in November. I hope that the Republicans sympathetic to this nonsense are also punished.
The plots have to be stopped at the source or we are in serious trouble.
JeffR