Faux: The Clinton administration did not confront an evil they knew existe

[brettdale]

I dont want to read it, its Olielly comments.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Yes they did

They ran against a republican candidate in '96. They forcefully and successfully confronted a known evil, and beat it.

[Corgigal]

2. Yeah,yeah

Well, fine. How's is Bush doing on that score?

[unrepuke]

3. A friend of mine just sent me this yesterday...

"For when they start to blame Clinton"

http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/30/clinton.terrorism/

I don't listen to O'Reilly, but I bet this is the article they are debunking. Just this morning on Ch 11 (Fox - I confess) they were doing the same, saying "Clinton should have done something when he had the chance."

[Garbo 2004]

4. Well there's Richard Clarke's book that provides some info on what the

Clinton administration did and tried to do. Without the full cooperation and indeed often outright opposition of the FBI, Pentagon and Congress. No doubt they could have done much more without the turf wars and opposition hindering them.

They passed the torch and Bush dropped it. Now they're blaming Clinton because they won't admit that Bush Administration had no interest in the Clintonista "obsession" with Bin Laden and terra. The Bushies had "other priorities."

[BOSSHOG]

5. And thanks to the republican party

in the 90's a large number of the FBI's resources were devoted to investigating lying state troopers in Arkansas, stained blue dresses and dragging 50 dollar bills through trailor parks. Meanwhile terrorists plotted.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Bush didn't "drop the torch", he flung it into a garbage dumpster.

Like you said, they had "other priorities".

:evilfrown:

[featherman]

6. I will never forget how Clinton was crucified

for his supposed "wag the dog" missile strike against "some tents in the desert" in an attempt to take out "some guy named Bin Laden or something"
Absolutely ridiculed and pilloried by the MSM, talk radio, and the GOP smear team. Look up the public record.

[wishlist]

7. CNN report yesterday outlined actions Clinton took against Bin Laden

CNN actually had a balanced report shown several times yesterday where they debunked the notion that Clinton ignored the Bin Laden threat. On the contrary, a section of the CIA was set up devoted solely to monitoring Bin Laden, there were targeted bombings of Al Qaeda camps and other actions. They had a top CIA guy under Clinton who talked about all of their efforts against Al Qaeda and he emphasized that Al Qaeda was only one of numerous terrorist groups they were working to thwart.

[Vickers]

8. What was he supposed to do, bomb Kennebunkport?

:shrug:

[unrepuke]

11. uh...can you give us 30 reasons why not to ?

:nuke:

[BrklynLiberal]

10. That is all 10 of the Republican Commandments.

1. Blame Clinton
2. It's Clinton's Fault
3. Blame Clinton first.
4. Blame Clinton second.
5. Blame Hillary Clinton if Bill wasn't around
6. Try blaming Chelsea
7. It REALLY is all Clinton's fault.
8. Clinton did it.
9. I saw Bill Clinton do it.
10. When all else fails, blame Clinton.