Re: OT BILL CLINTON'S MILITARY CAREER

larry moe 'n curly wrote:

Fred the Plumber wrote:
Maybe if Clinton had kept those promises, an estimated 3,000 people in
New York and Washington, DC. who are now dead would be alive today.


Maybe, but I doubt it because Clinton was paying a lot of attention to
terrorism, and some al Qaeda operations had been prevented during his
administration. OTOH GW Bush ignored terrorism during his first
months in office because he didn't understand it, didn't work on it,
was highly ignorant of international affairs, and was mislead by an
Iraq-obsessed vice-president and foreign policy team. Remember, in
January of his first term, he was briefed by Richard Clark that Al
Qaeda was the #1 threat, but immediately thereafter, Condeleezza Rice
told GW Bush that the #1 threat was Saddam Hussein. Also he did
nothing when specifically told, almost a month before the 9/11
attacks, "Al Qaeda Determined to Strike in the US".

If GW Bush had been a normal president, 3,000 people in NY and
Washington who died on 9/11 would be alive today.

I don't know what you mean by "normal" but the way 9/11 played into the hands of the neo-cons Israel?), war profiteers and exporters of Milton Friedman's theories of economics raises, serious questions.

From article from In These Times titled "Who Knew?":

The disclosures rocked the administration. “BUSH KNEW,” blared the May 16, 2002 cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post. A front-page headline in the Washington Post warned, “An Image of Invincibility Is Shaken by Disclosures.” Even worse for Bush, the news set off an inter agency war of press leaks over who was to blame for the mishaps, with each embarrassing leak from the CIA provoking a defensive counter-leak from the FBI. The result of the battle, which wore on through the summer, was political misery for the White House.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=340_0_1_0_C

Baltimore Sun:
http://tinyurl.com/yo28lc

Bush Saudi connection:
http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=14289

CNN:
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/05/15/bush.sept.11/index.html

Note:
At one time there was over 50 links to stories about prior knowledge of pending attacks, most are no longer available.
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