I mean, uh……Clinton sure never tried. And Pres’dent Carter….plenty of opportunity but, uh……din’t get ‘im. Didn’t even try s’fars I know.
Johnson could’a…..could’a got ‘im while he was still in grade school. Didn’t!
Kennedy could’a gone after him before he was offa his momma’s teet. Too busy goin’ after lesser threats like Khrushchev.
Truman….he uh……he had the A-bomb. Shouldn’ta wasted it on Japan when he coulda just used it on Iraq where EVERYONE knows was the international seat of terr’ism and WMDs for the last thousand years or so.
Roosevelt coulda gone after Osama’s daddy, Muhammed Awad Bin….uhhh….Bin somethin’ er other. Preemptive Strike we call that in uh….we uh….my friends and I like to say.
So, nobody’s done nothin’ ta get Saddam Bin La….Osama Bin Laden ‘cept me, my daddy, and Ronnie Reagan who sold weapons to Iran in order to make the world a safer place for uh……uh…..know-what-I’m-sayin’?
Thing is…….s’not my fault….’kay! I mean uhhh, nothin’ ever is!
2006-09-27 02:50:40 · 13 answers · asked by Beef Stewie 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I guess pretty in pink doesn't get it.
2006-09-27 02:53:42 · update #1
Superb!
2006-09-27 02:54:15 · answer #1 · answered by Kwan Kong 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, they did try - they tried very hard. Read any of the accounts of the US involvement in that part of the world since the first Gulf War and you'll find (unless you're intolerably biased) that they were aware of the threat and did what they could within the rules of what was allowed at the time. (By the way, a couple of weeks ago I asked a question - could anybody direct me to a history of that period and the current Iraq war that said it was a success? and nobody had any suggestions at all. Whereas I've a bookcase of stuff indicating that Clinton was well aware and trying).
A side comment: if you happen to be a West Wing nut, the end of the first series had an assassination attempt on President Bartlet and in the Sit Room review the National Security Adviser lists the potential threats, including Bin Laden ... and that series was made when Clinton was in office. I read more than one review of The West Wing that suggested that its writer was more clued-up about OBL than the incoming Bush administration.
Asymmetrical warfare is darned difficult - ask anyone who's had to deal with an insurgency in tough terrain. Skilled people like OBL don't use high-tech means (like mobile phones) whereby they could be tracked electronically. 'Getting' them depends on a mixture of good intelligence on the ground and a population prepared to turn someone in. And it's a commonplace that the US didn't have the Middle East on its radar - to a lesser extent, neither did the UK, although it had some colonial experience - and so couldn't run the kind of on-ground intelligence operation that they could against the Soviets.
By the way, note how many Bosnian war criminals still haven't been taken out - and that's in a country the size of Wales.
2006-09-27 03:10:09 · answer #2 · answered by mrsgavanrossem 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a pretty bad Texan accent, and Bin Laden didn't do anything to threaten the U.S. before, and the president would need authority from Congress to do any such act, AND it would give the U.S. a really bad reputation if Bin Laden was nuked, AND the UN would be like "WTF?!? Why'd you do that for?!?" Are these enough reasons? (And i'm anti-Bush, if you're wondering)
2006-09-27 03:00:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clinton's effort to kill Bin Laden was leaked by the Republican ... the Republican and I know you had nothing to do with that. Great typing and language ... you had me fool at first.
2006-09-27 03:35:50 · answer #4 · answered by Pey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
President Carter... Don't even let me get started on that p*ssy!
And Clinton.. He was too busy doing other things like cheting on his wife in the Oval office with plenty of other women besides Monica... He simply didn't have time for all that bullsh*t.
2006-09-27 03:00:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Democrats were busy in the office with their pants down to their knees. Kudos to the Republicans for standing up and fighting extremists in order for the safety of the Americans.
2006-09-27 02:59:25 · answer #6 · answered by Scouser7674 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wow, even satire of King George gives me the heebie jeebies, although not as much as the real thing.
2006-09-27 03:04:00 · answer #7 · answered by Zhimbo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just to inform you clinton did go after bin Laden, during his second term he has U.S. Navy ships shooting missles at Afghanistan's training camps. The ships missed Bin Laden due to bad intel
2006-09-27 02:59:23 · answer #8 · answered by bhamonkey 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The 9 months of not doing anything to catch him or prevent his plots in order to lure him out of hiding was your most brilliant plan ever...sir!
2006-09-27 02:54:33 · answer #9 · answered by BOISE_DD 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
W and Regean both did far more to make America safe than Clinton ever did. Sorry that that bothers you so much.
2006-09-27 02:54:00 · answer #10 · answered by Tony M 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋