Do you think 9/11 was Clinton's fault?

Question

Bush was only President for a short time before 9/11 happened. I believe the Clinton Administration was blind and didn't respond to previous attacks on the WTC. What do you think?

Answer 1

Yeah sure, everything is Clinton's fault.

Answer 2

It's just amazing! A month after Clinton took office in '93, the WTC was bombed. Instead of blaming it on Bush Sr. and then invading a Iraq, he went after the people responsible. They are now rotting in jail! When McVeigh bombed the Murrah Building, Clinton had him caught, tried, convicted and executed. In Dec. '99 the Millinium Bomber was caught before he could execute his plan. Twice he orderd cruise missile attacks, one against a chemical factory in Sudan and the other against a training camp in Afghanistan. On that one he missed Bin Laden by a half an hour. Another time he had an attack ready to go when he found out that Bin Laden was with the royal family of the UAE. The country were most of the moeny for the hijackers came from. Our allies in the war against terrorism and of the port deal. When ever Clinton tried something he was accused by the Republicans of wagging the dog. As for Bin Laden being offered to him by the Sudan government, the papers that suppossedly tell this tale have been proven to be forged. The signature on them were of a General that had been dead for ten years at the time. When the Bush Administration took over, Bush, Cheney and Rice were told how important it was to catch Bin Laden. In fact Cheney was the head of the Terrorism Task Force. But it didn't even meet till after 9/11. Bush had 52 FAA warnings about hijackings in the US plus the Aug. 6th PDB. Also FBI field agents were warning thier superiors about Muslems's taking flight training. So the most important thing to remember is " 9/11 HAPPENED ON BUSH'S WATCH!!"

Answer 3

The best deterrent to terrorist, rogue countries, and bad people foreign and domestic is a strong military and intelligence community. During Carter and Clinton eras the military and intelligence communities were severely cut back. Cutbacks were not only in weapons systems but in the human intelligence gathering capabilities of America. And this is very important as the British so proved last week by spoiling a large terror campaign. Often it is not the high tech surveillance systems that clue us in to the terrorist plans but by the spys on the ground that infiltrate and gather our enemies secrets. Without these people we are doomed. There were laws written that didn't allow different braches of law enforcement to talk to each other and share their information. We actually knew the terrorist were in the country taking flying lessons but due to Carter and Clinton and other democrats tying the hands of law enforcement this information could not be adequately processed and allow us to come to a conclusion that we needed to do something. Now through alot of catch up spending Bush has built up our military and intelligence community to a point where it can operate efficiently. Republicans have passed laws that allow law enforcement to work together (i.e. patriot act). Clinton was not the only one at fault.... every president that cut military spending is at fault. Sure it cost alot.... but we are safe.... the country is strong.... everyone is fighting to live here illegally or not.... jobs are abundant... and the economy is booming.

Answer 4

Speaking as a mostofthetime Republican, I personally think that 9/11 was the fault of Ronald Reagan and Casper Wineburger (sp?)
In 1983 when Hezbollah was 200 guys with truck bombs, they blew up a building housing 241 United States Marines. A plan was drawn up for immediate military response, which basically means the location of these people was to be bombed. The plane was gassed up and ready to go. Casper nixed the idea because it "wouldn't look good". Then the American Military presence was withdrawn from Lebanon. The message this sent to Bin Laden and those of his ilk was this --- "Kill American soldiers and America will run."

Answer 5

What do you think the chances are 9/11 would have happened, if, for example, we had not fooled with Kuwait and set up shop in Saudi Arabia during the first Bush administration / first Gulf War?

Interventionist foreign policy pisses off the recipients of it, and rightly so. It makes you a target. And US foreign intervention started long before either Bush, or Clinton.

It isn't the fault of any one convenient scapegoat therefore, and the electorate for the last several decades is as culpable (as enablers) as any politician.

I will only add the following comment about Clinton: sending a couple of Tomahawks into Afghani tents doesn't event rate symbolic value, much less substantive. Not much of an anti-terrorism campaign.

PS I would love to know the mindset of those who give this type of answer a thumbs down. Come out of the shadows, rationalize your opposition to logic please.

Answer 6

Weeelll - No. Seems like the taliban took credit for that. Clinton was guilty of what was going on under the desk. Terrorists are terrorists and will do things whenever and whereve, no matter who does what, when. That is why the current president was asked (actually begged) by the American public to invade Iraq. Now we have stupid excuses like bad intelligence to placate the press and the people with 24 hour war attention spans. We were warned explicitly and repeatedly before the war that it would take - like - forever - and we scremed -GO. Now we must deal with it.

Answer 7

No. His administration takes part of the blame. But remember, his administration's left-overs were the ones who gave Condalleeza the report called "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the U.S." So, I'd say the present administration deserves more than half the blame.

In reality, I think we need to learn from the failures more than place blame though. Obviously, no one expected such an attack or it would have been prevented.

Or, you could go with the conspiracy theorists who believe Bush wanted it to happen...I personally think that's a little out there.

Answer 8

9/11 was fabricated long before clinton or bush ever took office. Operation Northwoods. Go ahead search it into your search bar and be amazed at what you'll find. This government and many governments alike are so twisted its beyond their own control now they are just puppet's with someone higher pulling the strings. Do a little research on the Bush Clan and see what you come up with. Bush's grandfather was affilliated with the Nazi's and helped fund them with his High rankings of the banks.

Answer 9

The blame is spread further than clinton. There are documented quotes by the clintons, reid, kerry, gore, pilosci and kennedy which all warned of wmd's and terrorist plots in progress most of which stemmed from Iraq.
As much as all leftist and liberals want to ignore the evidence it remains out there.

Answer 10

Just wanted to say that Topher must not have realized that 9/11 was the main reason we went to war!!!!! He should think about things before he says them!! I believe that the terrorist hated USA anyway, but they didn't like the original President Bush, so when his son became president that just gave them a boast in their deceitful schemeing!!!!!!!

Answer 11

Well, according to the 9/11 Commission, both Clinton and the current Bush administrations were at fault. I do find it odd that Bush and Cheney refused to be sworn under oath or have their testimony publich however.