Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The Sudanese offered bin Laden to Clinton. He did nothing.

Oopsie, Rush, you are just rehashing old, old stuff that you keep bringing up, I keep responding to, and a few months later you'll bring it up again.

1. This was 1996, before adequate intelligence had confirmed a basis for U.S. action against Bin Laden and 2 years BEFORE the kill order and the alleged myth about not shooting the "tall man" who "might have been" Bin Laden. THIS IS NOT WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.

2. As Clinton clearly states, and the "inconvenient truths" you keep ignoring, Clinton did not have a lawful basis at that time. The Sudanese were not credible contacts and we did not have diplomatic relations with the Sudanese (though they were trying to reestablish them).

CLINTON DID NOT IGNORE THIS. We did suspect that Bin Laden was a bad guy.

CLINTON TOOK ACTION. He contact the Saudi government, where Bin Laden was a citizen, and where they did have legal status to act, to take action.

THE SAUDIS, Bush's buddies, Bush's oil cronies, REFUSED TO ACT. At that point, there was no legal action appropriate for that time.

You are so desperate to obey those who pull your puppet strings.

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