why do conservatives blame clinton for bin laden, reagan funded him?

Question

i find it amazing the man that funded and trained bin laden gets no blame-reagan.

Answer 1

Because that would mean that their golden boy screwed up, and it's against their philosophy to blame Reagan for anything.

Answer 2

You know what kills me? How conservatives blame Clinton for letting bin Laden go, yet he was visited by the CIA in the hospital WEEKS before 9/11

Answer 3

I'm not even sure about reagan funding him but ever heard the saying, "Hind-sight is Twenty-Twenty" Let go of the past and live now. Quit playing the blame game and do something. If you want to stop this war, your not gonna stop it by chatting on yahoo all day. Go to the nearest recruitment center sign up and quit blaming republicans dang it.

Answer 4

Indeed Reagan DID fund the resistance movement against the Soviets in Afganistan. And when Clinton took office, after Geroge Senior, that funding ended, along witha gutting of all military and Intelligence Agency funding.. We immediatley had a VERY p*ssed off enemy, whom we could no longer afford to keep track of. Congrats Libs. Try again. Thanks for playing.

Answer 5

Because The Rapist Little Billy Clinton chose to lob a few cruise missles Osama's way instead of going in to do the tough job of rooting out that nest of vipers.

That sums up TRLBC's MO to a fare-thee-well: when in doubt, punt. Don't go for the big play 'cause you might fail and, then what? That good ol' boy was only interested in playing with the toys and having a good time.

Meanwhile, Osama was running some 10,000 - 15,000 wack jobs through his training camps. We knew this and we knew their agenda. Osama was not hiding what he was up to - heck, he was advertising it!

TRLBC just figured that it was politically safer for him to kick the can down the road and leave the problem for the next guy. To have done anything about it he would have had to engage in a long-term campaign to convince the American people and Congress that Osama was a threat we couldn't ignore.

While that turned out to be true, TRLBC was the last guy to engage in such a campaign. Never gonna happen - "I might fail - and then what, they won't like me anymore (boo-hoo)".

Now, we come the fun part - Bush and Iraq. Here's not just a well-funded thug (that's Osama), but a super, duper well-funded thug (that's Saddam) with a HISTORY (trying to get through here) of developing and, yes Binky, USING WMD.

So, Bush, being a politician and knowing that another 9/11 won't just sink his presidency, it would consign it to the ash heap of history, decides to actually do his job and go after the punk before he has a chance to act out again.

The irony, of course, is that Saddam is a moron and had actually destroyed the WMDs and then, inexplicably, refused to let anyone verify it. This, despite years of sanctions and inspections regimes. Ol' Saddam is definitely going to go down as one of history's great miscalculators - Iran-Iraq War, Gulf War I, Gulf War II - and, to think, Iraq has the means and people to have a real country. It's truly a crying shame!

Summary: TRLBC was doing the only thing he COULD do (think (pathetic) genetic destiny) and Bush has done what we pay him to do (i.e., act before they act upon you and you get your a** fired!).

Answer 6

No one blames Clinton(at least not that I am aware of) for Bin Laden. We blame Bin Laden for Bin Laden.

And for all you Bush beaters....Im sure if you put Clinton uder the same microscope you have been putting Bush under....YOUR golden boy would show up all tarnished too!

Answer 7

First, Reagan did not fund Osama. This is a lie.

Second, we do not blame Clinton FOR Osama, but for his repeated failure to do anything ABOUT Osama, despite the repeated attacks against US targets - WTC Bombing, Khobar Towers bombing, US Embassy bombings, etc.

If you stopped trying to mischaracterize and distort what we are actually saying, and stopped parroting lies and propaganda, and actually researched the truth, you might get a clue about actual history.

Answer 8

Most conservatives don't. But we always criticize the guy before us. It's human nature. No doubt the next president and party will blame the guys before them. First rule of politics: Always have a scapegoat.

Answer 9

Are you sure about Regan. I was under the impression that he cam out of the Afghanistan struggle against the Soviet and that put him more in Carter's era then Regan's. Not that I am a big fan of Regan.

Answer 10

I find it amazing too because each president has had their hand in the events that led up to 9/11....