[Anyone] clinton and terrorism:

[Mike in Taos]

Genocide clinton didn't stop.............................500,000 to 800,000 
deaths clinton was responsible for.

A recent Organization for African Unity report shows that the Clinton 
administration did nothing to stop the genocide of 500,000 to 800,000 
Rwandans, even though it knew full well the extent of the mass murders.

In March of 1998, Clinton visited Rwanda and apologized. "All over the 
world," he said, "there were people like me sitting in offices who did not 
fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed by 
this unimaginable terror." The United States and the international community 
had not responded swiftly enough, he admitted, declaring "Never again." This 
was a clasic Clinton apology, for he found a way to excuse his lack of 
action: We didn't do anything to stop the genocide, but we didn't know a 
horrific nightmare was happening.

Clinton was prevaricating -- and lying about genocide is bit more outrageous 
than lying about sex. The OAU report refers to the well-known fax that 
Dallaire sent the UN three months before the genocide began. In that 
dispatch, Dallaire warned an extermination campaign was coming. A few weeks 
later, the report notes, "Human Rights Watch was told that a US government 
intelligence analyst had estimated that if conflict was renewed in Rwanda, 
the worst-case scenario would involve one-half million people dying.

Once the insane killing was under way, information and news of the genocide 
flowed to Washington and the West. "There was," the OAU report asserts, "no 
issue of insufficient information in the US. Human Rights Watch and the US 
Committee for Refugees, both of whom had first-hand knowledge from within 
Rwanda, persistently held public briefings and issued regular updates on the 
course of events. That it was a genocide was beyond question. Within two 
weeks, the International Committee of the Red Cross estimated that perhaps 
hundreds of thousands were already dead." The report challenges Clinton 
directly: "President Clinton insists that his failure was a function of 
ignorace. The facts show, however, that the American government knew 
precisely what was happening ... But domestic politics took priority over 
the lives of helpless Africans." They are calling Clinton a liar -- and a 
political coward.

Not for all. Clinton pushed silence at the time of the genocide, and Gore, 
Albright and other Clintonites tolerated that silence. If the history books 
do register Clinton as one of the "greatest," it will be an insult to the 
memory of hundreds of thousands slaughtered Rwandans.


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>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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