The more I learn about this ABC fakumentary, like the fact that director is a Christianist and that it's got a few scenes of Clinton hate porn, I'm just weirded out by the whole thing. I mean really, you just don't show mock assassinations of a former president on national television, no matter what the context. You just don't. I mean, c'mon, people flipped when the Zapruder film was replayed over and over again in JFK. We're just going to let this one slide, because it was Clinton?
Are there really people out there that hate Clinton that much?
Are we really this screwed up?


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The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than tripled last year, according to U.S. government figures, a sharp upswing in deadly attacks that the State Department has decided not to make public in its annual report on terrorism due to Congress this week.
Overall, the number of what the U.S. government considers "significant" attacks grew to about 655 last year, up from the record of around 175 in 2003 . . .
The data provided to the congressional aides also showed terrorist attacks doubling over the previous year in Afghanistan, to 27 significant incidents, and in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, where attacks rose to about 45, from 19 the year before. Also occurring last year were such deadly attacks as the seizure of a school in Beslan, Russia, by Chechen militants that resulted in at least 330 dead, and the Madrid train bombings that left nearly 200 dead.
The State Department did not disclose to the aides the overall number of those killed in incidents last year. Johnson said his count shows it was well over 1,000.
And that's just one year. Hooo-boy.
There were none between 1993 and 2001, either. That's 8 years. I guess that means that you feel that Clinton did better than Osama Bin Bush.
"Dubya is taking a strong stance on terrorism"
By leaving our ports and borders wide open? Yeah, that's pretty darn strong, alright.
"unlike willy who was to occupied with Lewinski to care about his nations safty, that nation he was supposed to be governing."
Ignorant comments do nothing but make you look ignorant. Clinton held three cabinet level meetings PER WEEK on counter terrorism. Bush held ZERO until the week before 9/11. Case closed.
Why not wait a few days and report on the real thing rather than just following the herd?
Best regards, Ben
Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed"
Where were the conservatives who were saying, "hey, wait til it comes out' on the Reagan mini-series, eh? Have you watched the clips? What do you think about them?
But they will Sean... Television and Hollywood traded in family values, discreetness and dignity for politics, ratings and money a long, long time ago...
Let's remove "touched by an angel" as it may be offending those who are non- religious, but it's ok to have everyone sit down with a nice big bag of pop corn and cozy up to this new "Disney film". YUK.
"There were none between 1993 and 2001, either. That's 8 years. I guess that means that you feel that Clinton did better than Osama Bin Bush. "
However on April 15, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated explosives in a Ryder Rental Truck in downtown Oklahoma City at the Murrah Federal Building. Are you trying to tell me that this was not an act of terrorism? Sure it may not have been by foreign nationals, but it still happened on Bill Clintons watch. Not to mention the bombing of the U.S.S Cole on October 12, 2000.
But go ahead, blame it all on Clinton's penis.
President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year.
I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities.
From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial channels between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I met with officials in both countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Sudan's president and intelligence chief. President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas.
Among those in the networks were the two hijackers who piloted commercial airliners into the World Trade Center.
The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening.
Important data on each had been compiled by the Sudanese.
But U.S. authorities repeatedly turned the data away, first in February 1996; then again that August, when at my suggestion Sudan's religious ideologue, Hassan Turabi, wrote directly to Clinton; then again in April 1997, when I persuaded Bashir to invite the FBI to come to Sudan and view the data; and finally in February 1998, when Sudan's intelligence chief, Gutbi al-Mahdi, wrote directly to the FBI.
Gutbi had shown me some of Sudan's data during a three-hour meeting in Khartoum in October 1996. When I returned to Washington, I told Berger and his specialist for East Africa, Susan Rice, about the data available. They said they'd get back to me. They never did. Neither did they respond when Bashir made the offer directly. I believe they never had any intention to engage Muslim countries--ally or not. Radical Islam, for the administration, was a convenient national security threat.
And that was not the end of it. In July 2000--three months before the deadly attack on the destroyer Cole in Yemen--I brought the White House another plausible offer to deal with Bin Laden, by then known to be involved in the embassy bombings. A senior counter-terrorism official from one of the United States' closest Arab allies--an ally whose name I am not free to divulge--approached me with the proposal after telling me he was fed up with the antics and arrogance of U.S. counter-terrorism officials.
The offer, which would have brought Bin Laden to the Arab country as the first step of an extradition process that would eventually deliver him to the U.S., required only that Clinton make a state visit there to personally request Bin Laden's extradition. But senior Clinton officials sabotaged the offer, letting it get caught up in internal politics within the ruling family--Clintonian diplomacy at its best.
Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history.
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As to the bill Clinton tried to get passed, there were specific provisions in section 3.s204a that were designed to break down the walls of non-communication between the CIA and the FBI which was the cause of 9/11. Well, that and Bush ignoring the August PDB titled: Bin Laden Determined to Strike US." But hey, those are just details.
And TJ: you obviously cannot read, as I said: Are there really people out there that hate Clinton that much?
That's not a defense. It's callled an interrogative.