[Anyone] clinton and terrorism:

[Thos Myers]

Terrorist Attacks Bill Clinton Stopped

Just for the record, under Richard Clarke's leadership as Czar of  
Counterterrorism:.

·  CLINTON developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy,
and appointed first national coordinator of anti-terrorist efforts.

·  Bill Clinton stopped cold the Al Qaeda millennium hijacking and  
bombing plots.

·  Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to kill the Pope.

·  Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up 12 U.S.   
jetliners simultaneously.

·  Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up UN  
Headquarters.

·  Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up FBI  
Headquarters.

·  Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up the Israeli  
Embassy in Washington.

·  Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up Boston airport.

·  Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up Lincoln and  
Holland Tunnels in NY.

·  Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up the George  
Washington Bridge.

·  Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up the US  
Embassy in Albania.

·  Bill Clinton tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda  
through
preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).

·  Bill Clinton brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center  
bombing and CIA killings to justice.

·  Bill Clinton did not blame the Bush I administration for first WTC  
bombing even though it
occurred 38 days after Bush left office.  Instead, worked hard, even  
obsessively - and successfully
- to stop future terrorist attacks.

·  Bill Clinton named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature  
of terrorist threats
and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.

·  Bill Clinton sent legislation to Congress to tighten airport  
security.  (Remember, this is before 911)
The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition  
from the airlines.

·  Bill Clinton sent legislation to Congress to allow for better  
tracking of terrorist funding.
It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition  
from banking interests.

·  Bill Clinton sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to  
explosives, to allow for better tracking
of explosives used by terrorists.  It was defeated by the Republicans  
because of opposition from the NRA.

·  Bill Clinton increased the military budget by an average of 14 per  
cent, reversing the trend under Bush I.

·  Bill Clinton tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism  
and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism.

·  Bill Clinton detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20  
countries.

·  Bill Clinton created national stockpile of drugs and vaccines  
including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.

·  Of Clinton's efforts says Robert Oakley, Reagan Ambassador for  
Counterterrorism:
"Overall, I give them very high marks" and "The only major criticism  
I have is the obsession with Osama".

·  Paul Bremer, current Civilian Administrator of Iraq disagrees  
slightly with Robert Oakley as
he believed the Bill Clinton Administration had "correctly focused on  
bin Laden.

·  Barton Gellman in the Washington Post put it best, "By any measure  
available, Bill Clinton left office
having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before  
him" and was the "first administration
to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort".

Clarence Swinney,
Political Historian

http://www.bartcop.com/clinton-terror-stopped.htm

And bush just sat back and wondered what happened on 9-11.  What a  
dupe of the right wing republican wankers.
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