The Blame Game

Michael T. Wayne- 1-27-2012
So, if I understand things as Obama has laid them out, the war over the last decade, its cost, and our economic woes are GW Bush’s fault? Let us take a closer look, as I happen to have a great memory, as well as the necessity to do research as well as it can be done.
In the spring of 1999, the Nation of Sudan had captured Osama bin-Laden, and we were given the opportunity to take him off of their hands, for he had already attempted to bomb the World Trade Center on Feb 26, 1993. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, nephew of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in Al-Queda since 1998, was working with the blind sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahma, a man financially backed by Osama bin-Laden. Our President-Bill Clinton, turned them down. We had already named the 9-11 mastermind as an un-indicted co-conspirator. Why not take him? I do not know. Incidentally, Newt Gingrich was his speaker from 1995-1999. We all know Al-Queda’s record since that date.
September 11, 2001, bin-Laden was successful at his second attempt, costing us more than 3000 lives, not only there, but at the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Could this atrocity have been avoided if the Democrat President Clinton was interested in protecting us in the future, rather than being distracted by the intern under his desk? Who can say?
Then, President Bush, in his first year was forced to take us to war. The war(s) themselves did not cost as many dollars, not even a fraction of Obama’s wasteful spending. And as far as lives lost? With over a million of our men and women serving, only a few thousand deaths occurred. Unfortunately, too many others were not, but horribly mamed or burned by I. E. D.’s. These brave men and women gladly served their grateful nation. We love them for it. (I do anyway, sent your contributions to the wounded warriors ) But, would they even have had to if Clinton had taken care of bin-Laden when he was handed the opportunity? Would 9-11 have ever happened? Why did it take 30 days for him (BO) to approve the raid to kill the most wanted man in the world? How did you find him? Did they trace his location from a call on your caller I.D.?
This, Mr. Obama, is why you are the worst president ever. (I only capitalize the word if I respect the man) if you insist on blaming your predecessor for the nearly insurmountable problems facing us, try looking back a little farther, and see that it was Bill Clinton to blame for the whole 9-11 and war on terror which you blame President Bush for. GW could have said it was the last guy’s fault, but he did not. He did what a capable President does. He acted to protect us. The whole blame game is the petty act of people working for a corporation, who have just changed their CEO. Blame your predecessor.
This is a country, the most powerful one in the World. Not accepting blame has been one of the problems with some of the latest Democrat Presidents(2). At least Bill Clinton could get us out of a recession. Still, your party is the real culprit in the very murky dealings we have had since, oh, I do not know, 1993. Would you please grow a set, stop with the lying, and get out of our White House? You want to dis-respect the Governor of Arizona for telling the truth about you, and accuse her of dis-respecting you, and that gives you the right to talk to her the way you did? You are not infallible sir.
Quite the opposite. You have made more mistakes than any President before you, yet you will not own up to them, but blame GW, or Congress.
Dude, you had a Democratic Congress in your first 2 years, and that is when you screwed the pooch. Get over yourself, you lying !@#$! If you actually did care about this country, you would give the L.B.J. speech from 1968, and bow out of the disaster you and your party has perpetrated on us, the American People. You want dis-respect? Was that good enough?
I can get much worse. Go ahead and come be a condescending jerk to me, and I will put you in your place.
GO AWAY LEECH!
God Bless the United States of America and our Armed Forces!
By Michael T. Wayne- A Little Crazy
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The following is a reminder of that period of Clinton time.
From the NewsMax.com Staff
Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006 6:13 p.m. EDT
Clinton Admits Passing Up bin Laden Capture; Lewinsky Played Role.
Bill Clinton denies it now, but he once admitted he passed up an opportunity to extradite Osama bin Laden.
Clinton's comments and his actions relating to American efforts to capture bin Laden have taken on renewed interest because of claims made in a new ABC movie, the "Path to 9/11," that suggests Clinton dropped the ball during his presidency. Clinton has also angrily denied claims the Monica Lewinsky scandal drew his attention away from dealing with national security matters like capturing bin Laden.
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During a February 2002 speech, Clinton explained that he turned down an offer from Sudan for bin Laden's extradition to the U.S., saying, "At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him."
But that wasn't exactly true. By 1996, the 9/11 mastermind had already been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing by prosecutors in New York.
9/11 Commissioner former Sen. Bob Kerrey said that Clinton told the Commission during his private interview that reports of his comments to the LIA were based on "a misquote."
During his interview with the 9/11 Commission, Clinton was accompanied by longtime aide and former White House counsel Bruce Lindsey, along with former national security advisor Sandy Berger, who insisted in sworn testimony before Congress in Sept. 2002 that there was never any offer from Sudanese officials to turn over bin Laden to the U.S.
But other evidence suggests the Clinton administration did not take advantage of offers to get bin Laden -- and that the Monica Lewinsky scandal was exploding during this time period.
At least two offers from the government of Sudan to arrest Osama bin Laden and turn him over to the U.S. were rebuffed by the Clinton administration in February and March of 1996, a period of time when the former president's attention was distracted by his intensifying relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
One of the offers took place during a secret meeting in Washington, the same day Clinton was meeting with Lewinsky in the White House just miles away.
On Feb. 6, 1996, then-U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan Tim Carney met with Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Osman Mohammed Taha at Taha's home in the capital city of Khartoum. The meeting took place just a half mile from bin Laden's residence at the time, according to Richard Miniter's book "Losing bin Laden."
During the meeting, Carney reminded the Sudanese official that Washington was increasingly nervous about the presence of bin Laden in Sudan, reports Miniter.
Foreign Minister Taha countered by saying that Sudan was very concerned about its poor relationship with the U.S.
Then came the bombshell offer:
"If you want bin Laden, we will give you bin Laden," Foreign Minister Taha told Ambassador Carney.
Still, with the extraordinarily fortuitous offer on the table, back in Washington President Clinton had other things on his mind.
A timeline of events chronicled in the Starr Report shows that during the period of late January through March 1996, Mr. Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky was then at its most intense.
On Feb. 4, 1996, for instance - two days before Ambassador Carney's key meeting with the Sudanese Foreign Minister, the president was focused not on Osama bin Laden, but instead on the 23-year-old White House intern.
Their rendezvous that day included a sexual encounter followed by a leisurely chat between Clinton and Lewinsky, as the two "sat and talked [afterward] for about 45 minutes," according to the Starr Report.
Later in the afternoon that same day, as Sudanese officials weighed their decision to offer bin Laden to the U.S., Clinton found time to call Lewinsky "[to say] he had enjoyed their time together." If there were
any calls from Clinton to the State Department or Khartoum that day, the records have yet to surface in published reports.
The Feb. 4 encounter with Lewinsky followed a period of intense contact detailed in the Starr report in interviews with the former White House intern, including a sexual encounter on Jan. 6, 1996, several sessions of phone sex during the week of Jan. 14 - 21, and another sexual encounter on Jan. 21.
Sudan's offer to the U.S. for bin Laden's extradition remained on the table for at least a month, and was reiterated by Sudanese officials who traveled to Washington as late as March 10, 1996.
On March 3, Sudan's Minister of State for Defense Elfatih Erwa met secretly with Ambassador Carney, another State Department official and the CIA's Africa bureau Director of Operations at an Arlington, Va., hotel, according to Miniter's book.
Erwa was handed a list of issues the U.S. wanted taken care of if relations were to improve. The list included a demand for information on bin Laden's terrorist network inside Sudan.
Erwa replied that he would have to consult with Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir about the list. When he returned for a March 10, 1996 meeting with the CIA's Africa bureau chief, "Erwa would be empowered to make an extraordinary offer," writes Miniter.
On instructions from its president, the government of Sudan agreed to arrest bin Laden and hand him over to U.S law enforcement at a time and place of the Clinton administration's choosing. "Where should we send him?" Erwa asked the CIA representative.
In his 2002 speech President Clinton has acknowledged being fully briefed on the Sudanese efforts to turn over the 9/11 mastermind, admitting that he made the final decision to turn the offer down.
As chronicled in the Starr report, however, Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky proved to be a growing distraction around this time.
Two weeks before the secret meeting between Erwa, Carney and the CIA bureau chief, the president summoned Lewinsky to the White House to inform her that he "no longer felt right" about their relationship and it would have to be suspended until after the election.
Lewinsky explained, however, that Clinton's decision to put their relationship on hold did little to change its basic character, telling Starr's investigators, "There'd continue to be this flirtation when we'd see each other."
The Starr report noted, "In late February or March [1996], the president telephoned her at home and said he was disappointed that, because she had already left the White House for the evening, they could not get together."
The call, Lewinsky said, "sort of implied to me that he was interested in starting up again."
On March 10, 1996, as Sudanese Defense Minister Erwa was making his extraordinary offer for bin Laden's arrest to the CIA's Africa bureau chief, Clinton met with Lewinsky in the White House.
The Starr report:
"On March 10, 1996, Ms. Lewinsky took a visiting friend, Natalie Ungvari, to the White House. They bumped into the president, who said when Ms. Lewinsky introduced them, 'You must be her friend from California.' Ms. Ungvari was 'shocked' that the president knew where she was from."
Though there was no physical contact that day, three weeks later, on March 31, 1996, Clinton resumed his sexual relationship with Lewinsky.
It was around this time, the president later admitted, that he was involved in delicate negotiations to try to persuade Riyadh to take bin Laden, after refusing to accept his extradition to the U.S.
"I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have," Clinton admitted in the 2002 speech. "But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."
On April 7, 1996, Monica Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon. Around the same time, the administration's hunt for bin Laden finally seemed to begin in earnest. Just weeks after Clinton spurned Sudan's bin Laden offer, for instance, the CIA created a separate operational unit dedicated to tracking down bin Laden in Sudan.
But it happened too late to capture the 9/11 mastermind. On May 18, 1996, bin Laden boarded a chartered plane in Khartoum with his wives, children, some 150 al-Qaida jihadists and a cache of arms - and flew off to Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

God Bless the United Staes of America and our Armed Forces!

This history reminder was posted by Michael T. Wayne- A Little Crazy