Was Bill Clinton at the DNC to Celebrate His Massive Cuts to Our Military and our CIA and for Protecting...?

Question

... the rights of Al Qaeda pilots to NOT be squealed on by the CIA when they take flight lessons IN THE US?

Answer 1

No, but I'm sure that McCain will celebrate his votes to cut veterans' benefits at the RNC.

Answer 2

According to Bill Clinton's book none of what you said is true. Why lie? Bill is not running for any office. You should try to read some and become more informed and more educated. The million seller book is "My Life".

Answer 3

Is this kind of talk really productive?  Get over Bill Clinton.  

Answer 4

no he was hunting interns.

Answer 5

Uhm, the CIA did squeal on the Al Qaeda pilots.  That intelligence was ignored.  Too busy trying to get that Iraq war going, I guess.

Answer 6

the reps just want to keep spending those tax dollars on more wars to keep their corp friend's profits up...u should read Eisenhower's memoirs about the "Military Industrial Complex" in the US

Answer 7

Well, if we look at the historical record, the Clinton Administration led the fight against terrorism (over strong opposition from Republicans in Congress and the pro-Republican Media).

February, 26, 1992, barely a week after Clinton and Gore took office; terrorists detonated more than 1,000 pounds of explosives under the World Trade Center

What did Clinton do?

-- Found and had arrested four of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's disciples

-- Gave them a speedy trial where all were convicted them for the bombing

-- Sentenced them to 240 years in prison

All by March 1994, only 13 months after the bombing.

Officials captured the prime suspect Ramzi Ahmed Yousef in 1995. A court convicted him in November 1997 and sentenced him to 240 years in prison as well.

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Clinton vs. Terror

-- sent legislation to congress to tighten airport security. (remember, this is before 911) (the legislation was defeated by the republicans because of opposition from the airlines).

-- sent legislation to Congress to allow for better tracking of terrorist funding. (It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.)

-- sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for better tracking of explosives used by terrorists.

(It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.)

When Republicans couldn't prevent executive action, Clinton - Gore:

-- Developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

--Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Boston airport.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania.

-- Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes.

(efforts denounced by the G.O.P.)

-- Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.

-- Tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism.

-- Detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries

-- Created a national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.

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Here, in stark contrast, is part of the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism record before September 11, 2001:

-- Backed off Clinton administration's anti-terrorism efforts.

-- Shelved the Hart-Rudman report.

-- Appointed new anti-terrorism task force under d**k Cheney. Group did not even meet before 9/11.

-- Called for cuts in anti-terrorism efforts by the Department of Defense.

-- Gave no priority to anti-terrorism efforts by Justice Department.

-- Ignored warnings from Sandy Berger, Louis Freeh, George Tennant, Paul Bremer, and Richard Clarke about the urgency of terrorist threats.

-- Halted Predator drone tracking of Osama bin Laden.

-- Did nothing in wake of August 6 C.I.A. report to president saying Al Qaeda attack by hijack of an airliner almost certain.

-- Bush - knowing about the terrorists' plans to attack in America, warned that terrorists were in flight schools in the US - took a four week vacation.

-- By failing to order any coordination of intelligence data, missed opportunity to stop the 9/11 plot as Clinton-Gore had stopped the millennium plots.

Answer 8

i wish i could give Gary F about 75 thumbs up.  everything he posted is a fact.  L. Paul Bremer, the guy Bush appointed Viceroy of Iraq, called Bill Clinton "obsessed" with terrorism in general and Osama bin Laden in particular.  anyone who questions his anti-terror efforts is either uninformed or a partisan idiot.

Answer 9

The 1993 WTC bombers...they're still in jail, right?

Answer 10

Clinton was a good president while Bush is a disaster.  That's why Clinton is celebrated.  Bush is still president.  Concentrate on what is happening now.  The WTC of 1993 bombers were apprehended, tried and convicted.  Osama "wanted dead or alive" bin Laden makes videotapes.

Bush has wasted our military in an unnecessary and foolish war in Iraq, reduced recruitment to accepting grandmothers and gang members into the Army and has exposed our military weaknesses for the world to see.  When Clinton left office we were respected and feared around the world.  Now we're laughed at.  

Answer 11

Some things the US citizens should never forget:

After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured 1,000; President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.

Maybe if Clinton had kept his promise, an estimated 3,000 people in New York and Washington, D.C. that are now dead would be alive today.