It's May 31, 2024, 10:11:34 PM
I think it's ancient news. Good republicans have known for years that Bill Clinton was offered Bin Ladin 3 seperate times before 9/11, (remember this is after Bin Ladin bombed the U.S.S. Cole, and the World Trade center the first time), and all 3 times Clinton's administration refused to accept Ladin's head on a stick.
Here's 1 example of Bill Clinton admitting it HIMSELF, to a group of Businessmen in Long Island, in 2002. Now; when the 9/11 commission asked him about this, he said that he must have misspoke, that never happened. "We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again, They released [bin Laden]. At the time, 1996, he 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. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan." Of course in '96 Bin Ladin had already been linked to the NY bombings by several newspapers, as well as bombings in Saudi Arabia against U.S. citizens. When the 9/11 commission met, Clinton told them he never said that. They told him they had the tape, lol, and he then said that he misspoke when he said that, he was never offered Bin Ladin by the Saudis. He was then backed up by Sandy Berger, who just got busted and admitted to stealing 9/11 related Clinton-era documents out of the National Archives. How convienent.
You mean to say that politicians lie? I won't believe it. They're the most honest men in all the land.
It's simple. Why killing someone who can still be of use.. like.. for blowing up a couple of towers and giving you a free-to-do-whatE>V>E>R-you-want-policy.
Quote from: 7even the peaceful dude on August 29, 2005, 08:19:47 AMIt's simple. Why killing someone who can still be of use.. like.. for blowing up a couple of towers and giving you a free-to-do-whatE>V>E>R-you-want-policy.Why would any self-respecting liberal want to give a conservative that kind of power? Everyone and their mama knew Gore wasn't going to win the election. Clinton fucked up.
1. Bin Laden was staying at an American hospital in Dubai for kidney problems in 1998 (after the embassy bombings, and while he was most-wanted by the U.S. government). ALLEGEDLY... someone from the CIA paid him a visit.2. The Taliban offered to hand Bin Laden over to the U.S. if they had provided evidence. Our response was that we "don't negotiate with terrorists". So either Clinton was simply looking at the situation the same way (not negotiating with terrorists)... or we just consider ourselves to be the "civil" ones because we're in the West... but when it comes down to it, we just want to bomb the shit out of countries.
There were even some fucking churches that told their congragations to stop coming of they vote for Kerry.