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Originally posted by Scipio
The Clinton administration was prepared to declare war on terrorism in the months before it left office, but they decided not to start a war so soon before a change of leadership.
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I keep hearing this spin now, but at the time of 9/11 most of the ex-Clinton/Gore people were saying quite the opposite. Dick Morris still says terrorism was job 102 for Bill.
If Clinton did have a plan like this, my guess is he waited until it was 'to late' for him so he could give the problem to the next guy. It would be fairly typical of Bill to pass the buck. No risk to his already shakey legacy.
Ohhhhh Clinton is going to go fight terrorists, after cutting the military budget, handcuffing the CIA with moronic regs, and giving us the humiliation of Somalia, but just you wait, we WAS going to get them, its all Bush's fault! Yea right.
If he wouldn't take Osama when offered because we didn't have 'legal' reason to hold him, what the hell was he going to do? Ask them to confess? Hope they play nice? Go blow up some empty tents?