is clinton responsible for 911 ?

Answer 1

No, it isn't Clinton's fault or Bush's fault. If you don't recall, it was OSAMA BIN LADEN!!!!!!! WHY DOES EVERYBODY WANT TO BLAME BUSH OR CLINTON???????

Answer 2

First off, the American president isn't God. He does not have complete control over any situation, even if sometimes he is the most powerful player.

Second, the law of unintended consequences says that sometimes bad things happen even when you choose the best course of action given the facts at hand.

Third, Osama bin Laden has free will and also isn't particularly rational.

There were many contributing factors for 9/11
* Soviets losing in Afghanistan made Mujaheddin feel powerful and cocky
* American troops based in Saudi Arabia, post Gulf War One, made some Muslims feel that foreign troops were too close to Mecca and Medina
* American historical support for dictators, such as Hosni Mubarak, made Muslims feel we were helping to oppress them
* US failure to demand that the Taliban hand over bin Laden in 1998 (see CNN article below) when we had the chance.

You could say that any of these factors was responsible for 9/11, and then blame whoever the decision maker was. But blaming it on just one person is inaccurate and an oversimplification

Answer 3

Clinton is not solely responsible. Bush 1 or 2 is not themselves solely responsible. Many people from many countries are responsible and it's far more complicated than any of us armchair presidents have the imformation to make a good judgement.

Then again, people who believe in politics need someone to blame, so it must be either one of the Bush's or Clinton.

Answer 4

Clinton was not responsible for 911. The hatred of extremists made it happen. Even if people were aware an attack would happen no one would have ever imagined what unfolded that day.

Answer 5

No, I have a gut feeling that if the elections turned out differently, 911 might not have happened. I know it was in the planning stages for years, but somehow the world changed when the warmonger took office. Even if 911 had happened, maybe Gore would have made sure those Taliban misogynistic creeps were permanently eradicated, and maybe Osama would be standing trial instead of Hussein. Not that they don't both deserve termination with extreme prejudice.

Answer 6

Why is it that some Americans still won't believe that the Bush clan was friends with Bin Laden? 9/11 is reminiscent of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt had prior knowledge as did Bush and it was just an excuse to do what they both wanted. To boost up their Presidency. Roosevelt didn't have too, but Bush.......

Answer 7

Why would you think it was Clinton? It's the Bush's continuing the obviously shining tradition that the family feels responsible to uphold. It wasn't Clinton.

Answer 8

The claims of Michael Springman, State Department veteran of the Jeddah visa bureau, that the CIA ran the office and issued visas to al Qaeda members so they could receive training in the United States, sound like the sour grapes of someone who was fired for making such wild accusations.

That one of George Bush's first acts as President, in January 2001, was to end the two-year deployment of attack submarines which were positioned within striking distance of al Qaeda's Afghanistan camps, even as the group's guilt for the Cole bombing was established, proves that a transition from one administration to the next is never an easy task.

That so many influential figures in and close to the Bush White House had expressed, just a year before the attacks, the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" before their militarist ambitions could be fulfilled, demonstrates nothing more than the accidental virtue of being in the right place at the right time.

That the company PTECH, founded by a Saudi financier placed on America’s Terrorist Watch List in October 2001, had access to the FAA’s entire computer system for two years before the 9/11 attack, means he must not have been such a threat after all.

That whistleblower Indira Singh was told to keep her mouth shut and forget what she learned when she took her concerns about PTECH to her employers and federal authorities, suggests she lacked the big picture. And that the Chief Auditor for JP Morgan Chase told Singh repeatedly, as she answered questions about who supplied her with what information, that "that person should be killed," suggests he should take an anger management seminar.

That on May 8, 2001, Dick Cheney took upon himself the job of co-ordinating a response to domestic terror attacks even as he was crafting the administration’s energy policy which bore implications for America's military, circumventing the established infrastructure and ignoring the recommendations of the Hart-Rudman report, merely shows the VP to be someone who finds it hard to delegate.

That the standing order which covered the shooting down of hijacked aircraft was altered on June 1, 2001, taking discretion away from field commanders and placing it solely in the hands of the Secretary of Defense, is simply poor planning and unfortunate timing. Fortunately the error has been corrected, as the order was rescinded shortly after 9/11.

That in the weeks before 9/11, FBI agent Colleen Rowley found her investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui so perversely thwarted that her colleagues joked that bin Laden had a mole at the FBI, proves the stress-relieving virtue of humour in the workplace.

Answer 9

No not directly but yes indirectly, because he and his administration decided not to do anything about terrorist attacks. Hoping it would go away I guess. He had at least 2 chances to take Bin Laden and didn't do it. He did bomb an asprin factory though and an empty tent, so I guess he kind of tried in a half azzed way. lol

Answer 10

no. clinton is not responsible. neither is bush. although neither of them is perfect, they have done their best. neither of them are involved with the terrorists who attacked us. yes, there was information that an attack might be impending, but nobody really knew when or where. believe me, if they could they would have stopped it.

Answer 11

Regardless of political prefernces (conservative here), or what any docu-DRAMA wants to say... no ONE PERSON could ever be responsible for it... say Osama... I am not a Clinton fan, but do you really think Clinton has so much power as to be able to single handedly allow 9/11 to happen?