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Originally posted by dig420
and just how did I prove that they do? Because I said that this wouldn't happen under Clinton's watch? I have reasons for believing this is so. The Clinton administration understood the danger posed by AQ and they took it very seriously, unlike the Bush team whose pre-911 priority was online pornography, and whose post-911 priority was Saddam Hussein. The Clinton team was interested in generating and reacting to actual objective intelligence, the Bush team told the intelligence community what they wanted to hear and then ignored everything else until they heard it.
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Well ok. Considering that Osama "declared war" on the US in 1998 what did the last administration do about it? You are saying they "understood the danger posed by AQ and they took it very seriously". So what did they do, sit down and talk about how much they took it seriously? What action did they take in 1998, 1999, and 2000 in response to Osama's attacks? A few missiles fired into Afghanistan and Sudan? There are whole books on the subject of "Clinton's deriliction" just as there are on Bush's. The crux of the matter is that Osama "declared war" on America 6 years ago and Clinton didn't do anything that worked and neither has Bush. Maybe the next guy will. Maybe Osama is more clever than all of them. Who knows?