I just got done watching a show on tv called "The Final Report - Osama Escapes". In it, it details the various ways in which Osama Bin Laden has escaped from US capture. Many reasons why have been shown, some of them valid, some not, but this one is the one that makes my blood boil.
In February 1999, intelligence agencies found out and tracked Osama to a camp in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Osama was spotted and confirmed to be in the camp. Also in the camp is an unnamed United Arab Emirates prince. Our guys are near the camp gathering intelligence and waiting for the call to begin strikes against the camp. However, the prince's father is about to make a deal with the US to purchase several billion dollars worth of warplanes. Fearing the backlash and potential deal breaker that potentially killing his son would be, President Clinton calls off the strike.
This is in February of 1999, after the attacks of the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing hundreds and wounding thousands. This is after Al-Qaeda was known to be responsible for the embassy attacks. This is after it is known that Osama is known to have declared war on the US. This is years after the CIA had a unit dedicated to capturing or killing Osama.
When Bill Clinton gets on tv and tells the American people that he did everything he could to capture or kill Osama, he lied. I've seen bumper stickers that say "When Clinton lied, nobody died." That's bullshit. 3,000 people would be alive today, multi billion dollar buildings would be still standing and the psyche of the American people would be intact if Clinton did his job to protect the American people.
Instead, Clinton put a couple billion dollar deal ahead of the security and safety of the American people. If people want to impeach Bush for the Iraq war, fine. Put Clinton on trial for treason. His impotence against a known threat cost us dearly.
We had him in our sights ladies and gentlemen. Clinton decided not to pull the trigger. He did not have the spine to stand up against a threat and order it neutralized. I would rather have a public that demands answers from me and second guesses my decisions, then have to explain to their families why they are coming home in a coffin because I decided not to act.
I know I have many Democratic readers, so let me ask you this: Are you going to ask for Clinton's blood like you have so rabidly asked for Bush's? Are you going to second guess Bush's every decision he makes and not do the same for Clinton? The evidence is there that Clinton knew there was a threat, one that had already killed hundreds of people, including Americans. We had the opportunity to capture or kill that threat in our hands, yet Clinton knowingly did nothing over a financial deal. So where is it? Where's your call for blood? Where's your call for charges of treason? If not, you will all prove my point that Democrats are spineless and weak when it comes to such things.
Why was the prince with Osama in the first place? He was with a known terrorist and if he died in a strike, then that's the price he pays for hanging around such people.
Michael Scheuer, Chief of the Bin Laden unit at the CIA from 1996-1999 confirms this story.
Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com
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If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.
Republican or Democrat, Bin-Laden would be allowed to escape, and this multi-billion dollar deal would still have happened.
Bullshit. You're simply trying to minimize the effects that this event had in the future of America and the lives of 3,000 people.
It's inexcusable for Bill Clinton to allow Bin Laden to escape after it was widely known that he had attacked our embassies that killed hundreds and injured thousands, including some of your own countrymen.
Yet, you seem to think "oh well, no one could have known".
That's bullshit and you know it.
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