I know hindsight is 20/20 but I believe not taking care of Osama bin Laden was easily the biggest mistake of the Clinton administration. Not Monica, not lying about Monica, not any of the other scandels - Osama get's my vote.
What do you think?
2006-08-30 11:56:38 · 20 answers · asked by carl l 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
tranquilized - I must plead ignorance on that one! Doesn't sound very prudent!
2006-08-30 12:02:23 · update #1
theodore r - I agree with you up to a point but you really didn't answer. To me, other than lying about Monica under oath, that whole deal was blown out of proportion.
2006-08-30 12:22:43 · update #2
paul.collacatt - ya scrotty wanker, don't have anything better to offer?
2006-09-01 04:22:36 · update #3
ny21tb - I am not seeking to "blame" anyone for Osama existance. Yes we probably did train him. But I remeber warnings way back when from the intelligence community that warned of his influence with the growing militant Islamists.
2006-09-05 11:05:25 · update #4
You're right, it is hindsight. However, it's not like he ignored him.
Clinton tried to have him assassinated, had US special forces trained for the mission, had a group in Afghanistan ready to do it, but due to faulty intelligence, they missed him.
He did warn Bush that he was a threat. We know how that information was used...
2006-08-30 12:03:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Osama was not expected to be this big a problem. I would say picking Gore as the VP, his inability to run an effective campaign, gave us the current administration, and lost all the credibility that Clinton got us in the rest of the world.
2006-08-30 19:01:18 · answer #2 · answered by psycmikev 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Going along with Jimmy Carter and GIVING fuel oil and nuclear reactors to North Korea. What kind of wishy-washy tree-hugging idiot could have ever thought that was a good idea? There are a thousand Osama wannabes just waiting to take his place. Killing him will not solve anything (except give a lot of people a sense of revenge).
2006-08-30 19:06:14 · answer #3 · answered by mrknositall 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
While I was waiting for this page to open after I read your question (but not the details) I was thinking the same thing as you. That in hindsight it would be not taking care of Osama when they had the chance.
I agree.
2006-08-30 19:03:00 · answer #4 · answered by Tangus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the American public would get that type of mindset out of their political agenda we might give our presidents power to lead our country out of some of these messes.
We tied Clinton up in a lot of investigative garbage because he was shagging somebody.
I wish to hell he had not done it.
I say grow up. If you want to call any of thes guys on the carpet, look at the history. I believe you will find that most if not all of our political leaders have had extra-marital affairs.
So get over it and stop browbeating our presidents, turning them into lame ducks because someone told you that they had an affair.
Clinton was too busy defending himself from small minded people.
I am not just defending Democrats either.
Look what small minded thinking is doing to our current president.
Once the guy is elected we are all supposed to line up behind them and help to make things better.
No, but whoever wins the next election will have a bunch of no brains turning up as much dirt on them as possible.
2006-08-30 19:16:30 · answer #5 · answered by theodore r 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I agree that Clinton's negligance of terrorism directed against the U.S. was his administration's greatest failure. If you read the 9/11Commission Report fully you'll agree that Clinton deserved impeachment - not for that Monica nonsense - but for criminal negliance in regard to protecting the U.S. from terrorism.
Coming in second I'd have to say Clinton's non-action to the genocide in Rwanda. I'm not saying we should have sent U.S. troops there, but damn the U.S. should have done SOMETHING.
2006-08-30 19:33:50 · answer #6 · answered by zippychippy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Allowing Hillary and Al Gore make any decisions that did not revolve around cleaning the spots out of the carpet in the oval office.
2006-08-30 19:01:25 · answer #7 · answered by daydoom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody cared about Osama bin Laden back then.
2006-08-30 19:03:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its biggest mistakes was to have undervalued the terrorist threat
then to have prepared a free highway to the Bush administration,...
a last point, THE History is written by the dominant people or government,....so i just hope that in decades, we will not say that the irak prémilitary compaign of Bush Jr was based on trues, if not,.... in what holy mess will we live???
2006-08-30 19:46:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right....it's also what I think. Maybe if Monica hadn't been in the picture, Clinton would have seen things more clearly.
2006-08-30 19:02:58 · answer #10 · answered by Rea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋