Clinton: I was right to bomb bin Laden

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Bob's Note: This psychopath is again showing his Narcissistic streak and is expecting nobody to remember the truth about his "bombing bin Laden". First of all, it's funny he waited until after GW Bush gave his speech which was powerful, to the point, and truly presidential. BJ in this article is still trying to steal the spotlight from a now fully accepted leader of the free world. He wants everyone to look at him and tell him he is the center of their world. Even though not once in his life did he ever give a speech as potent as the one GW delivered tonight.

In addition, both of BJ's bombing raids on terrorists were done to cover up the lies about the blow jobs (hence his nickname: BJ) he got from Monica Lewinsky: real timely all right. And just like before it's one excuse after another. Just read this article and have a good laugh at the has-been still revered by the Liberal Socialist Democrap media.

Thursday, 20 September 2001 23:59 (ET)

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Former President Bill Clinton defended his use
of Tomahawk missiles against Osama bin Laden in 1998 and called for
tolerance to uphold the United States as a nation of immigrants in a speech
Thursday in New York City.

"We did it because there was reliable information that Osama bin Laden and
his senior lieutenants would be there," Clinton said in a speech at the
Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan. "They were there, but left a few
hours before the missiles arrived -- it was an intelligence failure."
Clinton said the satellite-guided cruise missiles, surgically accurate and
capable of delivering a 1,000-pound payload onto a precise target a half
continent away, were programmed to strike at the heart of bin Laden's
operations.

After the missiles hit, the administration said the strikes had crippled
bin Laden's infrastructure. The United States fired more than 70 Tomahawk
cruise missiles into eastern Afghanistan, targeting training camps operated
by bin Laden. The attack killed about 20 people. "After that we trained
commandos and kept the missiles on ready, but the intelligence never
justified another reasonable opportunity," Clinton said Thursday. "Now the
stakes, the consciousness and the possibilities of American action have all
been increased and we must pursue them in all-deliberate speed."

Clinton approved the military strike in 1998 against bin Laden, after the
bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa were linked to bin Laden. The former
president was awarded a medal for supporting global trade and seeking to
expand Americans' knowledge of international affairs from the Foreign Policy
Association.

"We must remain united as we, in support of President Bush and his
national team, build a global coalition to root out terrorism, their top
aides, their money, and support from others, including governments," Clinton
said. "We must improve our defenses, including better security for planes,
pilots, airports and public transportation, as well as, better legislation
to deal with money laundering.

"We must continue to demonstrate to the world's poor and all the
developing nations that America is not their enemy and to do what we can to
involve all the people in the possibilities of the 21st century, both to
increase global growth and stability and to deprive terrorists of more
potential recruits." Clinton also warned that the terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon should not widen social divisions and
that "we should hold on to the diversity of our nation."

"One of the things the terrorists are hoping for is for discord to be sown
in the United States and I have been profoundly disturbed by reports of
attacks on Muslims in America, on mosques, on non-Muslim Arabs, on Sikhs,"
Clinton said. "This is being done by people right now who are scared, angry
and frankly ignorant of the real roots and belief systems of the people they
are attacking."

Clinton added that these are the most exciting times in human history
because of the breakthroughs in science and medicine. "We must remain
united. We must remain visionary," he said. "We have to show terrorists that
they cannot kill our spirit or way of life."

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Copyright 2001 by United Press International.