the terrorists declared war on U.S. during clinton admin. why did he do nothing.?

Question

93 wtc... kenya and tanzania U.S. embassies, U.S.S.cole ,blackhawk down, wake up people Bush didnt start this war but he will finish it.nuff said

Answer 1

you said it...because it was during the CLINTON administration...like all liberals who have NO backbone...or any plans about anything except trying copy the republicans and say it theirs...

Answer 2

The Idaho Militia declared war on the Washington government during the Reagan administration and remain a low level threat to this day. Why didn't your favourite Alzheimer victim do anything about them at that time. This was before OK City. The shrub doesn't have the ability or the will to find the right way to finish this. He has already said that his successor will be fighting the terrorists so I would say that all he's doing is waiting out the clock until he leaves the white house and to hell with how many bodies pile up until someone with the brains and balls to do what has to be done occupies the oval office. Most of the incidents you rattle off had nothing to do with the al-Qaeda but if you lump them together the problem looks so big and the shrub doesn't look so impotent when he can't deal with any situation that arises. And don't tell me it isn't his fault. He is the President and it is his fault when those he appoints are idiotic incompetents and he keeps them on.

Answer 3

The notion that clinton did not do anything is inaccurate.
in fact clinton did as much as he could.
please refer to this interview. and learn.


CLARKE: Because I was there and I saw it. You know, the White House is papering over facts, such as, in the weeks immediately after 9/11, the president signed a national security directive instructing the Pentagon to prepare for the invasion of Iraq. Even though they knew at the time from me, from the FBI, from the CIA that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

HEMMER: The White House says that before they even arrived at the White House, the previous administration was obsessed with nothing. I want you to look at a picture that we saw last week from NBC News -- an Al Qaeda terrorist training camp outside of Kandahar, Afghanistan. They allege, at the time, why wasn't anything done to take al Qaeda out. This was August of 2000. ( Full story)

CLARKE: Well, a great deal was done. The administration stopped the al Qaeda attacks in the United States and around the world at the millennium period, they stopped al Qaeda in Bosnia, they stopped al Qaeda from blowing up embassies around the world, they authorized covert lethal action by the CIA against al Qaeda, they retaliated with cruise missile strikes into Afghanistan, they got sanctions against Afghanistan from the United Nations. There was a great deal the administration did, even though at the time, prior to 9/11, al Qaeda had arguably not done a great deal to the United States.

If you look at the eight years of the Clinton administration, al Qaeda was responsible for the deaths of fewer than 50 Americans over those eight years. Contrast that with Ronald Reagan, where 300 Americans were killed in Lebanon and there was no retaliation. Contrast that with the first Bush administration where 260 Americans were killed on Pan-Am 103 and there was no retaliation.

I would argue that for what had actually happened prior to 9/11, the Clinton administration was doing a great deal. In fact, so much that when the Bush people came into office they thought I was a little crazy, a little obsessed with this "little terrorist" [Osama] bin Laden. Why wasn't I focused on Iraqi-sponsored terrorism.

HEMMER: It seems like this could go for pit for pat, almost a ping-pong match. [I'd like to] show you a couple of images of the USS Cole bombing in October 2000, a few weeks before the election that saw George Bush take the White House. Prior to that, August 1998 in Tanzania and Kenya, the U.S. Embassy bombings there. If you want to go back to Beirut, Lebanon, the early 1980's, the White House is now saying go back to 1998, back to the fall of 2000.

CLARKE: Right, and what happened after 1998? There was a military retaliation against al Qaeda and the covert action program was launched, the U.N. sanctions were obtained. The administration did an all-out effort compared to what the Bush administration did. The Bush administration did virtually nothing during the first months of the administration, prior to 9/11.

President Bush himself said in a book when he gave an interview to Bob Woodward, he said "I didn't feel a sense of urgency about al Qaeda. It was not my focus, it was the focus of my team." He is saying that. President Bush said that to Bob Woodward. I'm not the first one to say this.



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with regards to the Cole, please note what CONDI stated, at how your assement of the situation is hypocritical if you don't blame bush either.

Rice: The U.S.S. Cole was a terrible, terrible incident. And it demonstrated yet again that Osama bin Laden was a threat to the United States. We really felt that after 1998 when they had bombed the embassies and the response had not been an overwhelming military response that, in fact, it had a tendency to embolden the — the terrorists.

And we were worried, particularly since in the campaign we had said we wouldn't have pinprick strikes using military force. We were concerned that we didn't have good military options. That really all we had were options like using cruise missiles to go after training camps that had long since been abandoned and that it might have just the opposite effect. It might, in fact, embolden the terrorist not — not frighten them or not think that they were being taken seriously. Our response to the U.S.S. Cole was to get a strategy in place that could finally eliminate the threat of al-Qaida to the United States





so in conclusion your assement of the responce is wrong, and too politically inaccurate, please learn more.

Answer 4

I believe the 93 wtc bomber is in a prison in Colorado. Where is bin Laden 5 years on? Oh yes, he is under the protection of Bush's ally Musharraf.

Answer 5

There are so-called "terrorist groups" in Sri Lanka, Southern Phillipines, Southern Thailand, Chechnya but all of them (except Chechens) have never exported their fight for separate homelands into other countries.

Only fundamentalist Islamist groups (mainly MidEast origins) engage their enemies in and outside of their countries - global in fact - from Mainland America to Mogadishu, Bali to Madrid even moderate pro-West Islamic countries Saudi Arabia, Egypt are fair game.

Whether it's US foreign policies or the President, armed Islamist militants will stop at nothing to achieve their ends - whatever it may be. Terrorists have 'declared' war in the early 70s with their spate of skyjackings, Munich massacre - who were the US Presidents then? I don't remember but it's irrelevant.

Answer 6

George Bush Sr put troops into Somalia after Clinton was elected, but before he took office and didn't even bother to talk to him about what Bush was about to do!

Terrorism isn't a war! It's a bunch of pissed of people who are angry about what we steal from them!

What has Bush done about terrorism? Attack Iraq!! Boy that is bright as they had no terrorist!

Didn't Reagan supply our enemies with weapons, illegally, and did squat when 242 US Marines were killed in their barracks in Beirut in 1983 by Hezbollah?

Answer 7

The Clinton looked at it as a law enforcement issue rather than a war.

Answer 8

... it just goes to show that the CIA and the administrations have used the assets at their disposal to push their agendas through and distract the public on numerous occasions ... the islamic brigades including al-qaida were formed, trained, and armed by the CIA ... i guess we are to believe that these saps just decided at one point to turn on their sponsors right? better yet lets demonize all muslims on the news and ignore the fact that these militant islamic groups were formed and trained by us and have been used extensively in operations throughout the world to stir up populations and affect regime changes .... now they are the excuse to take over the most economically beneficial and oil rich region in the world .. how ***** convenient ...

Answer 9

There have always been terrorists.

Bush likes to control people using the myth of perpetual war.

Go read some more history, and check out Orwell's Animal Farm.

Answer 10

I think when they attack the U.S.S Cole and the US embassies they wanted to fight, but good ole bubba was busy with cigars and a fat chick