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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
host, this is insane, even for you. You have a RECORDING, in which Clinton says that Sudan had OBL, and immediately after that, he says, "I didn't want to bring him here."
Unless you have some REAL evidence that the recording is a forgery, contesting something that cut-and-dried just makes you look bad. Especially if you chose the words "I still don't see" because the recording is something you have to HEAR.
Edit: I'll grant you this. I do not accept Clinton's lame, years-later response that what he said in the recording was "factually inaccurate," in spite of all of the memory problems he and Hillary displayed over the years, under oath.
However, if you're saying that Clinton was "misinformed," then I'm sure we can expect a great deal more sympathy and understanding in regard to Niger and yellowcake.
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Your recording and the news article surrounding it (which I haven't researched, I only know from what I've read in this post) indicate there was ONE time in which Sudan may or may not have had Bin Laden, and there was no crime they could charge him with to extradite him, and so were forced not to take action.
In this country (until recently) we only take legal action against people who we can charge with crimes. It's part of the constitution. Which is to say, it currently is covered in jackboot prints, but it's a crucial part of our (erstwhile) liberties nonetheless.
But okay, so perhaps he was "on a platter"--although legally inaccessible to a country that follows the rule of law--once. What's the second one?
TO RETURN TO THE TOPIC: I don't really see why it matters if Bin Laden is dead. He's a figurehead anyway. The danger in Al Qaida isn't the personality of the leader, it's the structure and mission. A network of independent cells is completely unbeholden to a central leadership structure. This is the crucial part of the war on terror that our "command and control" oriented military compex can't get its head around. It might be a moral victory--and I'm sure that those who think going into Iraq was a great idea probably feel great that he might be dead. But it changes nothing.