Clinton Suddenly Terror Expert
From Reuters:
Former President Bill Clinton says he warned President George W. Bush before he left office in
2001 that Osama bin Laden was the biggest security threat the United States faced.
"In his campaign, Bush had said he thought the biggest security issue was Iraq and a national missile defence," Clinton said. "I told him that in my opinion, the biggest security problem was Osama bin Laden."
At Wednesday's luncheon, Clinton said his inability to convince Bush of the danger from al Qaeda was "one of the two or three of the biggest disappointments that I had."
Clinton said that after bin Laden, the next security priority would have been the absence of a Middle East peace agreement, followed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
"I would have started with India and Pakistan, then North Korea, and then Iraq after that," he said. "I thought Iraq was a lower order problem than al Qaeda."
Clinton's vice president Al Gore, who ran against Bush in the 2000 election, did not make the threat from al Qaeda a major focus of the presidential campaign, which both candidates kept focused mainly on domestic topics.
Hindsight really is 20/20.
It is obvious that Clinton didn't believe that Osama bin Laden
was a threat at all when he refused to take bin Laden into custody after Saudi Arabia offered him up. What actions did his administration take in order to alleviate the "biggest security problem" he was all worried about? He was in office for eight years. Osama was a terrorist all eight of those years. Nothing was done. That last line of the article is also telling, showing that Gore obviously didn't feel that bin Laden was such a big issue either.
Clinton, who's foreign policy included bombing Kosovar civilians, was no international diplomat. In fact, his only foreigh military actions happened because he wanted Monica Lewinsky out of the headlines. Its hard to see how Clinton had time to be worried about bin Laden when he was busy with plans for pardons and his presidential library.
Reuters News Article
Former President Bill Clinton says he warned President George W. Bush before he left office in
2001 that Osama bin Laden was the biggest security threat the United States faced."In his campaign, Bush had said he thought the biggest security issue was Iraq and a national missile defence," Clinton said. "I told him that in my opinion, the biggest security problem was Osama bin Laden."
At Wednesday's luncheon, Clinton said his inability to convince Bush of the danger from al Qaeda was "one of the two or three of the biggest disappointments that I had."
Clinton said that after bin Laden, the next security priority would have been the absence of a Middle East peace agreement, followed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
"I would have started with India and Pakistan, then North Korea, and then Iraq after that," he said. "I thought Iraq was a lower order problem than al Qaeda."
Clinton's vice president Al Gore, who ran against Bush in the 2000 election, did not make the threat from al Qaeda a major focus of the presidential campaign, which both candidates kept focused mainly on domestic topics.
Hindsight really is 20/20.
It is obvious that Clinton didn't believe that Osama bin Laden
was a threat at all when he refused to take bin Laden into custody after Saudi Arabia offered him up. What actions did his administration take in order to alleviate the "biggest security problem" he was all worried about? He was in office for eight years. Osama was a terrorist all eight of those years. Nothing was done. That last line of the article is also telling, showing that Gore obviously didn't feel that bin Laden was such a big issue either.Clinton, who's foreign policy included bombing Kosovar civilians, was no international diplomat. In fact, his only foreigh military actions happened because he wanted Monica Lewinsky out of the headlines. Its hard to see how Clinton had time to be worried about bin Laden when he was busy with plans for pardons and his presidential library.
Reuters News Article
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