Why didn't Bush listen to the warnings of the outgoing Clinton Adminstration about Bin Laden and his intent to

Question

attack us? It is too bad that the Republican controlled Congress tied CLintons hands about Bin Laden in the mid 90's when Sudan offered him to us. Its too bad they said Bin Laden wasn't our problem and hadn't done anything. Why didnt the Republicans care about keeping Americans safe? Why did they have to focus on a ******* instead of keeping us safe?

Oh what Bush isn't running again? Jesus H Christ I hope you don't vote. He is still the President and has to answer to the people got it?
The rest of you get our facts straight on Clinton and what did and did not happen.

Answer 1

You said Bush and listen in the same sentence.

Not meaning to exaggerate; but there is no know incident of Bush listening to anything.

Remember last year when he invited all the War Pundents to Camp David for a conference. After they were served brandy and seated Bush secretly left.

The Next morning they were all called back in to the conference room and a giant screen TV was showing Bush in Baghdad. He was laughing at them and mocking them for being dumb enough to think he would listen to their advice.

Answer 2

Quick to blame Bush aren't we? Have you asked yourself why Clinton didn't do anything about Bin Laden besides pass the problem on? Don't give me the Republicans tied his hands crud either, he was the president, he has the power to use the military for what he sees fit. He is the commander and chief in that aspect and does not need congress approval to use the military. He could have easily used the military to get Bin Laden from Sudan when they offered and Congress couldn't have done a thing.
Seriously that excuse is like me telling you that we could have taken out Hussein during the Gulf War, but the democrats wouldn't let Bush Sr. pull the trigger because they were more scared of what Husseins son would be like in power. It makes ZERO sense.

Answer 3

That offering Osama to America, seems more like a rumor to me. because I don't think they would have just let him go even if America didn't want him. there were several other countries that did, and would have gladly taken him off their hands. I believe this to be untrue.
But, you are correct about the Republican dominated congress tying Clinton's hands to fight terrorism. The trimmed his bills at the request of the airline lobby saying his security measures where "too expensive", they dragged their feet putting together a national agency to respond to terrorist threats, and PR'ed the whole thing to look like Clinton was weak on national security.
Clinton was obsessed with terrorist. Bush was obsessed with Saddam, and covering up the fact that his buddies supplied Saddam with the tools that he used to commit genocide.
If you haven't noticed, dealing with any witnesses rather quickly and permanently.

this whole Iraq thing was another Iran contra type situation, and they are tying up lose ends.
after they get the loose ends tied up, if Bush still has time, he'll go after Osama. If not the next guy will.

all the perps of the first trade tower bombing where captured, tried and imprisoned. not sure what else these people shouting the lies, that he did nothing wanted him to do.

Answer 4

See all the Right Wing trolls spouting talking points but lacking GENUINE knowledge of the events surrounding Clinton's attempts, it was republicans that made him stop screaming about "Wag the dog" scenarios and that his attempts to thwart terrorism were meant to distract from his impeachment problems when in reality he was working to address the problem here's some quotes from prominent republicans from that period
"Although the majority of Republicans publicly backed the al Qaeda strikes in 1998, a few sitting Congressional members were skeptical of Clinton's motives.

"While there is clearly much more we need to learn about this attack and why it was ordered today, given the president's personal difficulties this week, it is legitimate to question the timing of this action," Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) said in a statement. "Once the president has broken the bond of trust with the American people, as he has done with his repeated lies, it raises questions about everything he does or does not do."

Republican Senators Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and John McCain (R-AZ) didn't go as far as Coates, but both noted that Clinton was "distracted," before slightly reversing themselves later, after House Speaker Newt Gingrich characterized "Wag the Dog" accusations as "sick."

But after Clinton struck targets in Iraq in the winter of 1998, many more Republicans joined the "wag the dog" attack. "Both the timing and the motive are subject to question," Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) was quoted as saying, and Rep. Harold Solomon, (R-NY) said "Never underestimate a desperate president."


Clinton emphatically rebutted this charge in a Sep. 26, 2006 interview on Fox News: “ABC just had a right- wing conservative run in their little Pathway to 9/11, falsely claiming it was based on the 9/11 Commission report, with three things asserted against me directly contradicted by the 9/11 Commission report. ... And I think it's very interesting that all the conservative Republicans, who now say I didn't do enough, claimed that I was too obsessed with bin Laden... They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day after we were involved in ‘Black Hawk down,’ and I refused to do it and stayed six months and had an orderly transfer to the United Nations.”

Answer 5

why are you so uniformed when asking this question. Everyone knows that Clinton let Bin laden go. The Saudi offered him on a platter and Clinton refused. This is after the first bombing of the Trade Center (by the way they knew Bin Laden was behind that) along with the Battleship being bombed in Yemen. In reality it was Clinton that caused all of this. Look up Clinton news Interviews on Google and you'll see the one where he lost his cool because he knows he didn't do anything to stop terrorism. do some research. I'm sure your a Democrat because your daddy is one, right?

Answer 6

Bush and the Republicans knew of the Osama Bin Laden threat before Bush ever became President. It was part of Bush's agenda to create fear and chaos upon the American population to enforce new legislature onto the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The war on terror was used as the excuse to execute his plans. The results are staggering as we live with them everyday now.

Answer 7

How seriously should Bush have taken Bin Laden when Clinton didn't. The most wanted man in the world and Clinton did sweet FA about him the entire time he was in office.

US was attacked FIVE times during Clinton's tenure in office, and the best he could do is shoot a missile into an empty tent?? So you tell me, how seriously would YOU have taken it when your predecessor couldn't have cared less??

Answer 8

Why didn't Clinton do anything the first time the Taliban bombed the twin towers? He was too busy with his intern (Monica) to care about it. He didn't even retaliate for the lives of our military when the Somalians dragged our Men threw they streets, Go watch Black Hawk down and learn something about Clinton's dirty Administration. This war is being fought long and hard by many just for your free speech, so use it wisely and try not to judge, one day it could end up that we have some A**hole in our government making woman wear sheets and forbidding children to go to school.

Answer 9

Because the Bush family is good friends with the Bin Laden family. Osama's father and brother were in meetings with Bush's father when the "attacks" happened.

If these attacks were a surprise, why was the World Trade Center -- which holds 50,000 people, so empty that morning? Why had the building just been insured? Why were so many airline stocks "sold short" -- meaning people predicting the stocks would suddenly plummet -- just before the attacks?

Why??? Because the Bush family was in on the whole thing -- they needed to get public sympathy to get an excuse to invade Iraq -- a country that had nothing to do with 9-11, and had no Al Quaeda at the time.

All this -- and then Bush got re-elected (by cheating on the election).

Answer 10

I just love people who blame Clinton, claim the towers were "almost empty" when the attack happened, we know, all the jews were warned, christ how stupid can you be? somehow all the jews were warned, but somehow no one else ever found out.
I love Dubyas rection to the news, sat on his *** for 7 minutes mumbling to himself.