Do you want to know how Bill Clinton failed the USS COLE?

Question

http://thomasgalvin.blogspot.com/2004/04/failing-uss-cole-galvin-opinion.html

Despite the fact that bin Laden had declared war on America in 1998 the Clinton Administration never countered that we were at war with terrorists. In a radio address on October 14, two days after the attacks, Bill Clinton said "even when America is not at war, the men and women of our military risk their lives every day." In an October 18 memorial service, Clinton only devoted one small paragraph to the terrorists. He never mentioned any grave threat by name, not even Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda. In a "Meet the Press" interview just 3 days after the attack, National Security Advisor Sandy Berger did not even bring up Al Qaeda or the risk it posed to Americans.

http://thomasgalvin.blogspot.com/2004/04/failing-uss-cole-galvin-opinion.html.

Answer 1

I am NO Bill Clinton fan these days, but I honestly don't believe ANYONE did enough to stop terrorism before 9/11. People didn't think it could happen, and the public wouldn't have supported aggressive action. They don't even support it now!

Answer 2

Is this a question or an answer or an invitation to ask something. In all cases nothing applies hence the question is not valid. Nevertheless you or I can never know what were the conditions in 1998 when this attack took place, I assume that the US was not hit in its pride so that is why there was no aggressive action against anybody. Meet the press is staged and nobody can guide it or get a discussion running except those of the white house. In that year Clinton was afraid by what might come from the Monica case and that made him shut up, but it was known and clear to the security departments of the administration that al qaida was behind that, but there was nothing to crop from it. Further more those interested in deep world and US politics were not clear what they want or their agenda was not clearly defined so they waited for the next opportunity with a man that will do without asking for a payback like Bush. Clinton was good at evading everything even an impeachment that was clear he will indited but he turned it to a partisan issue and fled away this is guts and good judgment. Those things are not in bush personality so it was easy for them to manipulate a president at that time rather very difficult to do it to Clinton.

Answer 3

How many terrorist groups are there in the entire world? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands?

How many of them hate the US? Same numbers about?

.... Now is every leader a threat? YES! Is every leader the same threat level? NO

At the time Bin Laden wasn't a threat. He had just came off from his mentor whom was against attacking America. He wasn't a threat early in Clinton's term and in addition, Clinton didn't have a priority nor did Clinton know Bin Laden was going to attack the trade centers. Stop yelling at an ex-president and do something now you ignorant fool. What's in the past is the past and theres a hundred thousand things that could've been done to stop 9/11 and bin laden. How many did YOU do?!


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"I saw Bill Clinton all over the TV this weekend and pundits were asking him what should be done. I kept thinking - why ask him - he didn't do anything when he was in office, is he such an expert now? If he'd done his job when he was President, maybe none of this would have happened!"

Did you know about Bin Laden in the 90's? Did you know he planned to attack the world trade centers? Did you know he was "big time"? Don't even say yes, of course you didn't. He was small-time back then. You may think that it's not your job to know those sort of things, of course it's the President's job, right? So it can't be Bush's fault... for having intelligence that was wrong about WMD's in Iraq. For not reading the intelligence stating Bin Laden threatens to attack the US! It was all Clinton. Bush was just suffering from Clinton's lack of action. You didn't do anything either and I KNOW that no one on this forum would've done anythign about Bin Laden back then before he was a somebody.

Answer 4

Well--you just answered your own question in a way---

Clinton NEVER adressed the THREAT bin laden proposed!

He was too obsessed with his personell life

It was simple----he wanted the US to think he had everything under contol and even NOW he will blame the BUSH administration for all the troubles with this TERRORIST rather than take any RESPONSIBILITY for our troubles with saddam and bin laden---
Clinton will never accept what is rightly his shoulder of blame for some of our problems with bin laden and when he could have been shut down--much like how these liberals continue to WHINE

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I am also well aware of what Clinton's failure was, he was to busy trying to save his own political neck. Watch the Fox interview with Clinton on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2006. See him try to explain and loose his usual cool when confronted and then fall into the mantra of the right wing conspiracy. Same old Clinton.

Answer 7

So what are you trying to say here?

That President Bush failed to read the reports and get up to snuff and thus failed to prevent the Sep 11 attack?

That President Bush was too busy playing golf and reading "My Pet Goat" to defend America?

What is your point?

Are you saying that President Bush is not Responsible? Well, that goes without saying, that Bush failed to prevent the attack.

I want a president who is responsible.
Is that so much to ask?

Answer 8

Might be because the FBI and the CIA didn't think that Al Qaeda existed and once they did, they didn't follow up on Bin Laden.

http://break.com/index/purple_faced_rage.html

Answer 9

I saw Bill Clinton all over the TV this weekend and pundits were asking him what should be done. I kept thinking - why ask him - he didn't do anything when he was in office, is he such an expert now? If he'd done his job when he was President, maybe none of this would have happened!

Answer 10

if you remember nobody claimed responsibility for the attacks until almost a month later

october 15th transcript stating that bin laden was high on suspect list but yet unconfirmed http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/15/sm.17.html