Clinton did NOTHING about the 5,000 Kenyans Bombed at Our Embassy. Is that Because Kenyans Weren't Important

Question

... to Bill and Hillary?

What did Clinton's inaction tell poor people in 3rd world countries?

Answer 1

Actually, he launched cruise missile attacks against terrorist targets in response to this. No rational person could categorize his response as nothing.

Answer 2

It told everyone that the Republicans, in both houses, wouldn't let Clinton do anything about the bombings.

Or maybe it told the world that Clinton had as much sense and Reagan did when Reagan got the hell out of Beirut after the Marine barracks bombing.

Answer 3

Clinton initiated a response to the embassy bombings, or are you ill-informed?

Apparently you are grasping at straws, here and Clinton has been out of office for over 6 years.

DO you really have a point, or are you compulsively posting questions because you have nothing to truly say?

Answer 4

Clinton caused 9-11 by not going after Osama!

Blame it on Clinton!

Answer 5

Beware the next President of the U.S. Georgie boy hasn't done anything for the multiple tens of thousands of Iraqis who have been slain by terrorists in Iraq either. So who else do you want to blame for all the world's ills?

Answer 6

Clintoon had many inaction's. Except when he deported a little boy at gunpoint and blew up a bunch of women and children in Waco. I know it's hard to believe but Clintoon actually killed more Americans than he did foreign terrorists...

Answer 7

• On 7 August 1998, powerful car bombs exploded minutes apart outside the United States embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people and wounding about 5,000 others. Four participants with ties to Osama bin Laden were captured, convicted in U.S. federal court, and sentenced to life in prison without parole in October 2001. Fourteen other suspects indicted in the case remain at large, and three more are fighting extradition in London.

In August 1998, President Clinton ordered missile strikes against targets in Afghanistan in an effort to hit Osama bin Laden, who had been linked to the embassy bombings in Africa (and was later connected to the attack on the USS Cole). The missiles reportedly missed bin Laden by a few hours, and Clinton was widely criticized by many who claimed he had ordered the strikes primarily to draw attention away from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. As John F. Harris wrote in The Washington Post:

In August 1998, when [Clinton] ordered missile strikes in an effort to kill Osama bin Laden, there was widespread speculation -- from such people as Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) -- that he was acting precipitously to draw attention away from the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal, then at full boil. Some said he was mistaken for personalizing the terrorism struggle so much around bin Laden. And when he ordered the closing of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House after domestic terrorism in Oklahoma City, some Republicans accused him of hysteria.
. . . the federal budget on anti-terror activities tripled during Clinton's watch, to about $6.7 billion. After the effort to kill bin Laden with missiles in August 1998 failed -- he had apparently left a training camp in Afghanistan a few hours earlier -- recent news reports have detailed numerous other instances, as late as December 2000, when Clinton was on the verge of unleashing the military again. In each case, the White House chose not to act because of uncertainty that intelligence was good enough to find bin Laden, and concern that a failed attack would only enhance his stature in the Arab world.
. . . people maintain Clinton should have adapted Bush's policy promising that regimes that harbor terrorism will be treated as severely as terrorists themselves, and threatening to evict the Taliban from power in Afghanistan unless leaders meet his demands to produce bin Laden and associates. But Clinton aides said such a policy -- potentially involving a full-scale war in central Asia -- was not plausible before politics the world over became transformed by one of history's most lethal acts of terrorism.
Clinton's former national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger . . . said there [was] little prospect . . . that Pakistan would have helped the United States wage war against bin Laden or the Taliban in 1998, even after such outrages as the bombing of U.S. embassies overseas.

Answer 8

Clinton has'nt been president for 7 years. Enough already ! What about the 3,000+ AMERICANS killed in Iraq, and still being killed ?

Answer 9

Bush doesn't care about blacks---not Clinton.

Answer 10

You can say the same about Bush and the situation in Darfur.