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http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york-issue112901.shtml[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Clinton Has No Clothes[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]What 9/11 revealed about the ex-president.[/FONT]
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By Byron York, NR White House Correspondent[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]
From the December 17, 2001, issue of National Review[/FONT]
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n June 25, 1996, a powerful truck bomb exploded outside the Khobar Towers barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, tearing the front from the building, blasting a crater 35 feet deep, and killing 19 American soldiers. Hundreds more were injured. [/FONT]
February 26, 1993, bombing of the World Trade Center, the Khobar Towers attack, the August 7, 1998, bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS
Cole — Clinton was preoccupied with his own political fortunes to an extent that precluded his giving serious and sustained attention to fighting terrorism.
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Investigators quickly discovered that bin Laden was behind the attacks. On August 20, Clinton ordered cruise-missile strikes on a bin Laden camp in Afghanistan and the al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. But the strikes were at best ineffectual. There was little convincing evidence that the pharmaceutical factory, which admin istration officials believed was involved in the production of material for chemical weapons, actually was part of a weapons-making operation, and the cruise missiles in Afghanistan missed bin Laden and his deputies. [/FONT]
As in 1998, U.S. investigators quickly linked the bombing to bin Laden and his sponsors in Afghanistan's Taliban regime. Together with the embassy bombings, the
Cole blast established a clear pattern of attacks on American interests carried out by bin Laden's organization.
These terrorist attacks have nothing to do with which American President was elected, it is about the idea of being in total control of everything that the rest of the World believes morally and religiously. Read the whole article, if you want to blame President Clinton for every attack on America but that will not be true. It wouldn't have mattered if President George Washington had been in office.
As to President Bush 41 stirring things up in the middle East,
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2006/06/26/guests_takes_wide_view_of_iran_hostage_crisis/
"But only a fool, says Mark Bowden, considers the hostage crisis history. It was the future. It was now.
``You can draw a direct line between the hostage crisis and 9/11," Bowden says. ``It's a tentative line -- they're more ideologically linked than directly connected. But the hostage crisis was the first time Americans heard themselves called the Great Satan. It was the first time they learned how much Islamic fundamentalists, of whose existence they were barely aware, detested them.
``It was the first time they realized they were the enemy in a war they didn't even know had been declared."
Just how far back in history do you want to blame US Presidents for what terrorists are doing C/1Lt Henderson ?
