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Maybe if congress had sent up a bill to tap suspected terrorists phones in 1996 like Clinton begged them to, this would have been prevented. You can alter a giant asteroids course easliy if you deflect it soon enough.
"We are fighting terrorism on all fronts with a three-pronged strategy. First, we are working to rally a world coalition with zero- tolerance for terrorism. Just this month I signed a law imposing harsh sanctions on foreign companies that invest in key sectors of the Iranian and Libyan economies.
As long as Iran trains, supports and protects terrorists, as long as Libya refuses to give up the people who blew up Pan Am 103, they will pay a price from the United States.
Second, we must give law endorsement the tools they need to take the fight to terrorists. We need new laws to crack down on money laundering and to prosecute and punish those who commit violent acts against American citizens abroad; to add chemical markers or taggants to gunpowder used in bombs so we can track the bombmakers.
To extend the same power police now have against organized crime to save lives by tapping all the phones that terrorists use. Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime. Why should we have two different standards for a common threat to the safety of America and our children?
We need, in short, the laws that Congress refused to pass. And I ask them again -- please, as an American, not a partisan, matter, pass these laws now."
Excerpt from Clintons 1996 democratic convention speech.
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