Is it possible Bill Clinton isn't to blame for everything thats wrong on September 14, 2007?

Answer 1

I can't believe that some of the Con idiots above imagine that Clinton didn't go after Bin Laden. The fact was he did, we bombed his location several times (based on CIA intelligence) and we just missed him.

At the time, Con pols were delighted that our military failed to kill him because they could use it to make cheap political attacks on Bubba. And Bubba warned the stooge Bush again and again and again about Bin Laden but Bush ignored it (just read Richard Clarke's book, he served BOTH Presidents).

Answer 2

Of course that's true. Every person who has ever served this country has made mistakes and everything they do doesn't make everyone happy.Clinton made his mistakes, both Bush's made their mistakes, Reagan made mistakes, Carter made mistakes. A couple of things need to be considered. First of all , neither the democrats or republicans are good at accepting responsibility. They both walk around completely blaming the other party for everything that is wrong in this country when they are actually both at fault. Secondly, just because you think something is a mistake doesn't make it a mistake and doesn't mean everyone else thinks it is a mistake. We as a country , and especially our politicians,need to learn to respect the fact that we all have different opinions and learn to work together to solve our problems and stop all the name calling and finger pointing. That's why our government can't get anything done now, instead of doing their jobs , they are too busy pointing their fingers at others for not doing theirs. By the way, I am a republican, I don't like either Clinton, but it is not fair to blame them, or anyone else for things they didn't do.

Answer 3

I retired when Bush came to office. Asked to stay on, I refused. I was aware of how things had been ignored and just knew that Bush was going to have to adress certain issues.
I was the guy Clinton called everytime there was a mess (militarily) -- it was on my recommendation that we pull out of Somalia. We'd had OBL in our sights no less than three times and between Albright and Berger, was allowed to do nothing. The Weapons inspections had been a farce, the first resigned in disgust.. He'd been promising to back Tiawan over the Chinese, then they launched an invasion force -- fortunately they had to turn back due to an outbreak of dysentary. Ernon, WorldCom, White Water?
While aboard the Lincoln I asked Adm. Nader (Clinton's chief architect for the military draw down -- actually started by Bush Sr. before Desert Storm) the reasning behind such expansive cuts. He said that the USSR had fallen, we'd never fight another two front war and don't need this large a military AND because the economy was sluggish. I pointed out that it's sluggish because people aren't spending what they don't have. They're not working. I asked how taking a group of gainfully employed people, naking them unemployed and then turning them loose on an already sluggish economy was suppose to help. I was asked to sit down. This was the mentality of the Clinton administration. And the fiscal deficit (or lack of), it was a Republican controlled Congress. Bill just bottomed lined what he'd been given.

Answer 4

There are people who go through political life ... everything that is messed up is the fault of people in the other political party ... that seems to be the majority behavior.

Then there are people who try to figure out how we can use the system to solve problems ... that is a minority approach that needs to be marketed to more people.

A lot of stuff came out in the 9-11 investigations that many people are ignoring or denying ... I suggest you reread the 9-11 commission report, and also read other similar investigations ... every 6 months or so there's one or another into the major problems of the nation.

The 9-11 commission report found a dozen prior instances of hijackings aimed at crashing into buildings.

The one I remember was Air France hijacked to fly into the Eiffel Tower. Even with gun to their heads, the pilot and co-pilot refused to do that.

The lessons to be learned from that incident:
Terrorists are interested in flying hijacked planes into national monuments.
They will be training their people to know enough to do that. They won't need to learn all the landing & takeoff stuff. The FBI and other agencies ought to be on the look out for such suspicious training going on.

Well in retrospect, it seems like those lessons were not heeded. I do not feel like that is a failure of government at the Presidential level, but somewhat lower.

Intelligence info coming into USA in the summer of 2001 was like on fire ... the chatter was that a major terrorist strike on US soil was imminent, that it would probably involve something with hijacked planes ... many gov agencies were alerted, but FAA was kept out of the loop.

Just prior to then, there had been earlier investigation that our airline security was a joke. Congress tried to get that beefed up, but the Airline industry mounted a huge campaign to suppress that effort. They were successful.

Every outgoing President tries to brief the incoming on major issues. Clinton and his staff did brief Bush and his staff on the very serious nature of the bin Laden threat, which was very high on Clinton radar screen when he left office.

Every incoming President tries to distance himself from the prior policies and solutions of their predecessor.

This is not a problem with Bush per se
rather it is part of why partisan politics are so poisonous to America, and in addition the Clinton Bush transition was severely disrupted by the voting battle ... remember the Florida Chad?

The nation is not, should not, be run by President alone. There is also Congress.

When President and Congress are of same party, they tend to not do oversight of each other oops, cover up problems that ought to be fixed.

When opposing parties, everything President tries to do is under gun of Congress. Some Presidents, like Bush are more successful than others, like Clinton, of defying the will of Congress.

One thing Clinton managed to do while in office was to take the National Debt to Zero ... no more deficit spending until Bush reversed that trend and made it 1,000 times worse than it had ever been.

Now we will hear that this is neccessary because of the current war with terrorism and in Iraq, but the nation has had wars before ... WW I WW II Korea Vietnam Cold War ... what makes the current war so different than the prior ones that has to have astronomical deficit?

Answer 5

It is a beautiful day outside. Is Bill Clinton responsible for that? I think that these questions are amusing but truly not provoking constructive debates or exchanges of ideas. We get your point. Some of US are trying to make the another that there were serious flaws during the Popular Presidents term. Problems we do not wish to see repeated. To me if Hill was not running I could care less what he does. What he did not do to protect us against the 9/11 attacks I feel is worth deeper investigation. That is no joke. Thank you.

Answer 6

No, it isn't! Bill Clinton is at fault for everything bad that's ever happened! Even the Holocaust and the sinking of the Titanic were his fault!



I still don't get why people blame so much on Clinton. He may have made some mistakes (most people do), but all this crap about how he strengthened Al-Qaeda and tried to destroy America and so on...I just don't see how that works out. The republican extremists just need to wake up and see the world as it really is, i.e. as a world where republican presidents can make mistakes just as democratic presidents can.

Answer 7

No. Just watch "Path to 9/11" and then the interview with him afterwards. He really protested a little bit much, don't you think?

It was reported that he paid OBL not to attact the USA until he left office. He closed a number of military bases and weakened our defenses. He committed adultery and lied about it. This is just to name a few. He left the USA in a mess and lied about that too.

Answer 8

I never said clinton was responsible for everything, but we must consider why Clinton felt OBL was no harm to the US or its citizens...Just maybe if he had pondered on that for a minute while he was still in office 9-11 would not have happened and therefore some of the things wrong today would not be going on....

Oh but i forget you libs feel that Clinton was in the right when he didnt get OBL when he had the chance....i suppose if he did then you would have nothing to complain about!

Answer 9

Clinton has been out of office for 6 years now. Has Bush Jr fixed nothing in that time?

Answer 10

Unlikely he allowed us to fall for 8 years the economy was in ruins we had been attacked all throw his presidency and he was likely the direct reason for it he made our people look like crap world wide. In the foreign papers it stated the US Government was for sale and on and on, then Gore tried his 2000 coup attempt.

We are lucky to have survived as a country.