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Jan. 2001 memo warned of Al-Qaida attack... idiots in the White House ignored it

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Machiavelli:
The Clinton administration had as many as four chances to kill or capture bin Laden between December 1998 and July 1999, but all the operations were scuttled because of uncertain intelligence and fears that civilians or dignitaries might be killed. In one example, in May 1999, sources provided detailed reports about bin Laden's whereabouts in the Kandahar area over a period of five nights, but strikes were not ordered because the military was concerned about the accuracy of the reports and the risk of collateral damage, investigators found.

 A month after the Clinton administration launched missile strikes on al Qaeda targets in retaliation for the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa, counterterrorism officials within the Pentagon prepared a paper proposing "a more aggressive counterterrorism posture" to "take up the gauntlet that international terrorists have thrown at our feet." The authors also warned that in case of more "horrific attacks . . . we will have no choice nor, unfortunately, will we have a plan."

 The eight-point proposal went nowhere, in part because senior officials thought the plan was too aggressive, investigators found.

• In the spring of 1998, the Saudi government broke up a plot organized by bin Laden to launch attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia using portable missiles. Scores were arrested, but the Saudis did not publicize the case at the time, the commission report said.

• U.S. officials learned that Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistani intelligence, had assured Taliban leaders in July 1999 that he would provide three or four hours of warning before any U.S. missile launch as he had the "last time" -- an apparent reference to the failed 1998 missile strike.

*Jamal*:
This is not a Democrat vs. Republican issue.... our government fucked up... both sides of the aisle...

Ant:

--- Quote from: Machiavelli on February 11, 2005, 04:31:57 PM ---
even your canadiate Wesley Clark agrees clinton failed to stop 9/11


--- Quote ---After I gave my former commander-in-chief credit for squeezing Libya," said Mr. Clark, "I realized that I would also have to blame him for not stopping the 9/11 attacks. After all, there was a three-year hiatus between the Clinton White House and the Libyan decision, but only nine months between Bill's departure and the day the planes hit."
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LOL.  This is a satirical news site.  The story you quoted is completely ficticious.

Look at the name of the newspaper first:  Scrappleface: News Fairly Unbalanced. We Report. You Decipher.  This is a fake news site.  Here is another story from Scappleface "DNC To Consider Republican Chairman." 

"ScrappleFace, the daily news satire site, features new stories virtually every day. Scott Ott, editor-in-chief, leads the vast editorial staff of ScrappleFace to cover the globe like a patina of dental plaque."

I'd give you a little respect if you admitted you were wrong.  Now please try to find a site that gives actual, reliable news that supports your main point.  Be sure to include a link.

M Dogg™:
Clinton had 2 years, and still, it's been 4 years for Bush and he still ain't caught him. So your whole deal on blaming Clinton is unfound to me. I've read all that shit, and if Bin Laden can get away from the "stronger on terrorist" Republicans, then I think they can get away from Bill Clinton too. It's like this, Bin Laden is like the fucken Road Runner, our Coyote ass presidents ain't going to catch him with their Acne traps, what we need is a president that tries something else. I was saying Wesley Clark needs to be president, or Kerry needed to have him as his VP, all that military experience would have done wonders. Oh well, back to Will'ie Coyote number 2 trying to catch Bin Laden.

Don Jacob:
you can say that bush fucked up and you can say clinton fucked up and on the same note you can say the government as a whole fucked up. you can say all of these things and be right .....but at the end of the day who HONESTLY thought something like 9-11 would happen to the US?

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