Did Clinton really pursue Bin Laden as fanatically and single mindedly as he and Richard Clarke say he did?

Question

Clinton says he was after Bin Laden since before the Somalia fiasco. He says he tried his hardest to kill Bin Laden. Why are there so many people saying he didn't try. Why didn't the Republicans go after what really mattered in the 90's? Like the war on terror(before it was named that) and killing Bin Laden instead of going after Clinton for lying under oath. surely they understood the threat to America was not Clinton's morals but Bin Laden's?

Answer 1

Try asking the Sudanese . They offered bin Laden to him . Chris Wallace was sitting in wonder at what he was hearing from Clinton -Clinton truly lost it . Why didn't we go after the war on terror before the terrorists attacked us ? I do not get your question ? Clinton was the one running the country and the one in charge -but he was too busy lying under oath ; getting disbarred and impeached -while trying to sort his mistresses from his wife . Clinton's morals were at the heart of it all . He turned his back & never looked back . He dismantled our military and made the United States vulnerable to 9/11 .The man who carried the "Nuclear football" while Clinton was in office ,Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson wrote a book about Clinton called "Dereliction of Duty" about Clinton's reckless disregard for national security . You might find it interesting .

Answer 2

In hindsight Clinton should have assasinated Bin Laden at any cost.

Given that the Republican Party have been so critical of Clinton in failing to track down and kill Bin Laden. I think it is a fair question to ask, "What efforts did Bush make in tracking down and killing Osama Bin Laden in the time from when he was sworn in to 9/11?".

Answer 3

I think the jury should be out on this one. I say this because there were a great many other higher profile terrorists during the Clinton Years. I'm not trying to detract from Clinton, but I doubt that Bin Laden was as high a priority as other terrorists during that time.

Answer 4

Lt. Col. David H. Hackworth, the most highly decorated military officer in modern times, wrote in his book "Hazardous Duty" that he was instructed to tell Bill Clinton that we had Osama bin Laden located and "zeroed in" and all Clinton had to do was to say "Do it". Clinton was busy on the golf course and later having drinks an the clubhouse and he avoided Hackworth and the issue all afternoon, even though he had been told several times about the situation. Bin Laden escaped.

Answer 5

We measure by success. I am not speaking about this political situation, but consider these FACTS as history:

Thomas Edison DID NOT invent the Telephone.
(why would we say that, when Alexandar Graham Bell did).

The Russians did not land on the Moon.

Woodrow Wilson did not form a United Nations.

Bill Gates did not invent the Macintosh.

You see what I mean. These negative facts have no meaning. The facts of what were accomplished in history do.

Chuck Yeager was the first man to fly faster than the sound barrier. THAT's A FACT. Let's build our knowlede of history based on positive fact. Not an endless list meaningless failures.

Answer 6

Why is everyone so obsessed with Bin Laden once he is dead there will be someone take his place it is a never ending cycle

Answer 7

Clinton has already proved to the world his an F'ing liar. This is just another example of it. People that fall for this load of dung deserve all they get.

Answer 8

Hardly. In fact, it was during this administration that leaked the fact US inteligence knew what was going on because it was so easy to eavesdrop on their phonecalls. Guess what, they quit using phones.

Clinton could have easily killed OBL.
Typical rewriting of history by a liberal.

Answer 9

If he per-sued Bin Laden half as hard as he did interns he'd be dead.

Answer 10

Foreign policy is the Presidents Sphere of influence, Congress has not power to conduct it.

Clinton failed to act. They had him several times but were afriad of lawyers.