How come conservatives say Clinton should have done more to get Bin Laden, but when Bush did NOTHING it is ok?

Question

We all know what conservatives say about Clinton. But regardless, if it was so important to capture Bin Laden, WHY DID BUSH DO NOTHING TO GET BIN LADEN FOR 8 MONTHS??? We ALL paid for his administration's negligence on 9/11!

007, what you said is absolutely no excuse for the Bush administration's lack of action against Bin Laden, especially when they were presented with the daily briefings about Bin Laden!

Answer 1

During the end of his administration, Clinton had intelligence reports of such a potential attack and drew up documents on suggested tactics to prevent it. It was ignored by Bush, or simply pushed aside. Not sure why he would do that other than he won't be told what to do because he's the "decider."

Oh yeah, and what ever happened to Bin Laden? He was just pushed aside as those documents were.

Answer 2

Abu Nida and Carlos the Jackal were the big terrorist names during the Clinton years and they were nabbed. This nation wasn't focused on Bin Laden and why would it have been. He was CIA trained and funded for a long time.

Anyway, the current Administration doesn't really want to catch Bin Laden. They want the War on Terror go on endlessly. Most Americans will think the war is or should be over once we have Bin Laden. When you spend $500 Billion on Defense...let's just say a lot of people have a lot of money at stake and finding Bin Laden is not good for business...which is all we Americans really care about.

Answer 3

Bush is incompetent,, he was asleep at the switch on 9-11,, he is a coward,, he is afraid of Osama bin Laden,,, the Taliban have regrouped and taken over Afghanistan again,,, Iraq is a debacle,,, Republicans are scared of losing their party,, they know they are beaten,, so they are stooping to the Karl Rove tactics,,, blame Clinton,, bring up Clinton,, it's their only pitiful defense against all the lies,, and WAR CRIMES in AMERICA,,

Answer 4

Why USA is after Bin Laden? After the man can't be more important than his ideology which fanning fire all around. Let the man die in peace and bury his ideology. There is no doubt that like cartoon super characters for kids as saviors of the Earth and the Universe, USA also created Bin Laden to control his rivals in Asia and elsewhere, perhaps to fight Russians in Afghanistan in nineties with the help of Talibans nurtured in Pakistan with CIA help.

Answer 5

Bush was focusing on his difficult and perplexing decision on the stem cell issue for the first 7 months of his presidency, as well as picking out the perfect scotch-guarded red plush carpet to replace the old semen stained carpet in the Oval Office. Bush and his staff got down on their and prayed, "What Lord should we do now!"
Bush and his cabinet spent the next month debating with themselves over whether he should change the shape of the Oval Office.
When the 9/11 attacks occurred he was too busy listening to first graders read to him that engaging book, "My Pet Goat",
to find out what the heck was going on.
He eventually made it clear that Bin Laden couldn't run and couldn't hide, he was getting together a posse to find Osama dead or alive...
But Osama did run(actually he rode a donkey) and he did hide in the caves and mountains of Afghanistan.
....That's when Karl Rove told what him what he and Cheney's double secret plan was....They told him Osama was too good at playing hide and seek, it was his backyard after all......but this was the perfect time to do what Dubya's daddy didn't want to do ..Take Saddam Hussein out and establish a grand democracy in Iraq....But they had to bomb the bits out of Iraq, so that Haliburton would be awarded no-bid contracts to try and rebuild it.
Bush has never spoken again finding Bin Laden, he knew that he couldn't even find Waldo, even though he was somewhere on every page of the darn book!
Conservatives blame all of Bush's failures on Clinton....
Laura even blames Clinton for George's inability to reach a climatic finish in his White House tenure...

Answer 6

Bin Laden and the Taliban are living the good life just over the Pakistani border. Bush knows where they are. He just doesn't have the courage nor commitment to cross Pakistan's border to kill Pakistan's 'protected and welcomed guest'.
Bush should grow a pair and get r done!!

Answer 7

I agree with Independent's remarks.

Hindsight is 20/20, but, we as a nation had plenty of warnings before 9/11 and our response as a nation was obviously inadequate. We didn't realize we were in a war until too late. This is true of all past Administrations, and the current one, Republican and Democratic.

Answer 8

Did nothing? What do you mean did nothing? If you're referring to the wait before we went to Afghanistan, you can thank your loving UN for that. They had to OK the mission before we could do anything and at that point Bush didn't know the UN was corrupt as they are. Doesn't matter cause Bush killed Bin Laden at Tora Bora. There hasn't been a video made of that ham sense. The ham that he was proves he's dead or else he's have been on the video tapes saying "Ha ha you missed me".

Answer 9

So you're going to get on Bush's case for not doing more to capture Bin Laden in 8 months when Clinton had 8 years? Puh leeeeeze! Read for yourself my backwards friend......

"At the time, 1996, he [bin laden] had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America." -Bill Clinton April 9. 2004 http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/9/165600.shtml

Answer 10

Yes, like Carter, Reagan, G HW Bush, and Clinton, during their presidencies, GW Bush should have done more in those 8 months to fight terrorism. We *all* should have taken it more seriously.

However, if you criticize Bush for not acting earlier, I hope that you are a strong supporter of the Patriot Act, tougher immigration laws, increased border protection and border searches for people and cargo, increased tracking of foreign nationals in the U.S., tougher military action overseas, and greater funding for the FBI and CIA, because those are among the things that we could have been doing earlier to prevent 9-11.

Amazingly, sometimes the same people who criticize Bush for not acting quickly enough in the first few months of his presidency also cirticize him for the steps he's taking now to prevent the next attack.