Yet the same people think it's entirely Bush's fault for the war in Iraq even though it was passed through congress (congress includes the Senate in this context for those that didn’t know). Classic Clinton never made a mistake but Bush makes nothing but mistakes and is the center of all evil mentality. It's really getting old.

Listen up everyone! Clinton had a full eight year term in office and we were attacked by al Qadea as early as 1993 at the WTC. That's 7 years of not being able to put Bin Laden's head on a platter or being able to disrupt the 9/11 agenda in it's infancy. Bush was the governor of Texas and doing a pretty good job there - hence one of the reasons he was elected in 2000. He was doing pretty well in his first year, too. Employment was good, the DOW was at record levels and he helped out military families tremendously, etc.

Then one day he's reading a book to children in a classroom and the liberals haven't been able to stop blaming him since. They even attack his reaction in the classroom to this day. He went from an average President to a war President faced with one of the most turbulent economical crisis as a result of the attacks Clinton could have prevented. All this happened overnight! Granted he was in office for a year prior to the attacks and is responsible for how OIF and OEF was/is conducted (most people question OIF including myself). But to think Clinton isn't to blame for pre-9/11 activity when Bush is to blame or everything since 9/11 is asinine. He ****ed up. Pure and simple.

 

Remember Salty, Bush asked the terrorists to attack us. I agree, it's outrageous. Everyone has to have a scapegoat though and as you and I both know leaders always bear the worst of it.

 

one word: mogadishu

 

The truth is that Clinton could have done something, and Bush could have done something. Pointing fingers is not worth anything as it was both administrations that are at fault, as well as congress, the FBI, ect.

Besides, what does it matter now? Clinton is out of the presidency, making plenty of money speaking and with his book. Dubya's got another three years, and is untouchable, and is getting enough grief with the Iraq war. Pointing fingers now is worthless.
-Jeff

 

Sadly, this type of thinking isn't common when it really should be.

 

If there was an administration that was / is at fault, it goes all the way back to Reagan. After all, his fight against the Commies, and the subsequent funding of Al-Queda, led us into this sh!tstorm.

 

What do u mean Bush asked them to attack us?

 

I think he was being sarcastic

 

Al Queda did not exist until 1988. Prior it was called Maktab al-Khadamat. Bin Laden even refers to Al-Queda (The Base) formerly as the International Front for Jihad against the Jews and Crusaders.

as for Reagan funding him....B.S.
http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archiv...24-318760.html
In summary:

• U.S. covert aid went to the Afghans, not to the "Afghan Arabs."

• The "Afghan Arabs" were funded by Arab sources, not by the United States.

• United States never had "any relationship whatsoever" with Osama bin Laden.

• The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Arab backing for the "Afghan Arabs," and bin Laden's own decisions "created" Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, not the United States.

 

Ouch.

Someone tried to pass the buck on another conservative President? I never thought i'd witness the day!

 

truth of the matter is decades of mis steps, thousands of years of strife and conflict, and the tact of a retarded drunken bull in a china shop collided on one continent at one time.

and now we get to sort thru it all

 

The roots of the organization were certainly in place.

Fill me in on how many non-Arab Afgahns fought against the Soviets.

Really? Doesnt our current administration maintain that Osama and Saddam are inextricably linked? I was told that Saddam's money helped fund Bin Laden.

Notice this picture?


Could money have trickled down to Saddam's fellow terrorist brothers? I mean, after all, Saddam did attack us on 9/11, right??

 

I think that this pretty much sums it up

 

You want numbers? Or are denying the fact about who we funded?


The 9/11 Commision does not dispute that contacts between Iraq and al-Qaeda occurred. The Administration also knew that Iraq was harboring a terrorist network headed by Zarqawi. Zarqawi, the senior al-Qaeda associate who was known to be in Baghdad for medical treatment in May 2002, continues to undertake indiscriminate acts of terrorism today. The Administration knew Saddam had longstanding, direct, and continuing ties to a number of terrorist groups, including groups responsible for killing Americans.
As for the funding, I heard Saddam had given $300,000 in cash to Ayman Al Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's number two man, in the spring of 1998. Not sure if that was ever confirmed or denied.




What does a picture from 1983 have to do with this post?

Did I ever state this?