"DSK" wrote in message
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I noticed that you did not respond to my point that 2001 WTC occurred
on George Bush's watch. Since when did a commander not take
responsibility for what happened on his/her watch?


NOYB wrote:
There's not a person on the face of this Earth who thinks 9/11 was
planned and executed in an 8 month period.

That's not the point.

The point is that Bush & Cheney did nothing... NOTHING! ... to stop the
progress of the Sept 11th plotters, desptite the warnings and intel he was
handed.


Clinton had several opportunities to assassinate or arrest the *******
prior to 9/11, but was worried about the Constitutionality of such an
act.

Unlike Bush & Cheney, who don't give a flying **** about the Constitution.

In fact, he's on record (audiotape) as saying that he didn't know under
what legal grounds he could hold him when the Sudanese offered to hand
him over.


Guess what... Sept 11th hadn't happened yet.


Somalia had happened. The 1993 WTC attack had happened. Soon after the
proclamation of war, the Khobar towers attack occurred...followed shortly by
the USS Cole. After the Cole, Clinton didn't react even though all
indications were that it was directed by bin Laden.



You're ignoring the fact that after Sept 11th, which Osama Bin Laden
claimed full credit for, Bush & Cheney gave up looking for him.


No they didn't. The PDB's from the period leading up to 9/11 showed that
Bush had directed the DoD to formulate an attack plan to go into
Afghanistan.





This is precisely the point that is being argued here. Our laws are
inadequate to deal with international mass murder and/or war...

That's simply not true.

Yes it is. bin Laden should have been captured or killed the minute that he
declared war on the US.


*IF* Bush & Cheney had managed their intel & counter-terrorist ops
half-competently, then Sept 11th would not have happened.

8 months wasn't enough time to formulate and implement a plan to remove the
Taliban from power in Afghanistan. Besides that, the Bush administration
had to deal with tensions over China's downing of one of our Naval planes.


Instead they were worried about how to hush up Cheney's oil policy.




It is not a case on inadequate law, it is a case of incompetent
leadership.

Right you are! From 1996 until 2000, Clinton had several opportunites to
get the *******.