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Clinton vs. Terror, Republicans vs. Clinton
President Clinton led the fight against terrorism over strong opposition from Republicans in Congress and the pro-Republican Media. Here's a partial - yet incredibly long - list of accomplishments against terrorism for which the Clinton Administration gets almost no credit or even recognition. President Clinton:
-- sent legislation to Congress to TIGHTEN AIRPORT SECURITY. (Remember, this is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.
-- sent legislation to Congress to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF TERRORIST FUNDING. It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.
-- sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF EXPLOSIVES USED BY TERRORISTS. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.
When Republicans couldn't prevent executive action, President Clinton:
-- Developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
--Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Boston airport.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge.
-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania.
-- Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).
-- Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.
-- Did not blame Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days after they had left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively -- and successfully -- to stop future terrorist attacks.
-- Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.
-- Tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism.
-- Detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries
-- Created a national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
-- Robert Oakley, Reagan Counterterrorism Czar says of Clinton's efforts "Overall, I give them very high marks" and "The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama"
-- Paul Bremer, Bush's Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley saying he believed the Clinton Administration had "correctly focused on bin Laden. "
-- Barton Gellman of the Washington Post put it best, "By any measure available, Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him" and was the "first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort."
http://www.mikehersh.com/printer_Clinton_vs_Terro [...]
Here, in stark contrast, is part of the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism record before September 11, 2001:
-- Backed off Clinton administration's anti-terrorism efforts.
-- Shelved the Hart-Rudman report.
-- Appointed new anti-terrorism task force under Dick Cheney. Group did not even meet before 9/11.
-- Called for cuts in anti-terrorism efforts by the Department of Defense.
-- Gave no priority to anti-terrorism efforts by Justice Department.
-- Ignored warnings from Sandy Berger, Louis Freeh, George Tennant, Paul Bremer, and Richard Clarke about the urgency of terrorist threats.
-- Halted Predator drone tracking of Osama bin Laden.
-- Did nothing in wake of August 6 C.I.A. report to president saying Al Qaeda attack by hijack of an airliner almost certain.
-- Bush - knowing about the terrorists' plans to attack in America, warned that terrorists were in flight schools in the US - took a four week vacation.
-- By failing to order any coordination of intelligence data, missed opportunity to stop the 9/11 plot as Clinton-Gore had stopped the millennium plots.
-- Blamed President Clinton for 9/11.
2006-09-26 16:50:55
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answered by Anonymous
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It is amazing how a question about who knows who the author the book was turns into a random dolt of Clinton and Bush bashing.
2006-09-26 18:10:48
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answered by trl_666 4
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A neo con is a clean conservative. Ron Paul is a libertarian. Libertarians, conservatives, new conservatives, social conservatives, and economic conservatives all have a tendency to belong to the Republican party. Socialists, liberals, and different safe practices information superhighway individuals tend to be interior the Democratic party. you're categorised as liberal, yet once you're socialist, then it really is what you're. i imagine your buddy change into merely being insulting.
2016-10-16 02:28:55
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answered by rhona 4
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Who cares, Clinton already cooked his goose in his interview with Chris Wallace, that is why he got so pissed, he was confronted of the facts of osama. Even Dick Morrison said on Hannity and Colmbs that he was not truthfull, he pointed out at each statment that clinton made in his interview with Chris that he was not telling the truth. About the cole, Somilia, WTC attack of 93, on each he said Clinton was not truthfull because Dick Morrison was their.
2006-09-26 16:40:36
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answered by hexa 6
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and all fanatical zealotry is borne out of islamic religiosity?
"NUFF SAID.
2006-09-26 16:35:51
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answered by Anonymous
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dick morrison is a lier an dtraitor to our country and you mam are a dolt ..
why do you hate america
2006-09-26 16:44:42
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answered by illogicalbeats 2
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They seem oblivious to all.
2006-09-26 16:34:54
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answered by San Diego Art Nut 6
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Do you know how dumb your question sounds? I do!
2006-09-26 16:35:14
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answered by Wolfpacker 6
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say what,,,, i see by the picture your motives
2006-09-26 16:35:14
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answered by blue_eyed_southernman 4
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