Reply #14: I love when they say that "Clinton did NOTHING"--I guess stopping [View All]

Al Qaeda operative Ahmed Ressam with his trunk full of explosives, headed for Los Angeles, New Year's Eve 1999 was nothing to these "patriotic" Americans.

“We’re taking extraordinary efforts in the government to act based on the incident out in the Pacific Northwest,” said President Clinton on the eve of millenium celebrations scheduled for December 31, 1999 around the world. Overseas’ terrorism is bad enough, but the prospects of Islamic suicide bombers on American soil sounded a loud wakeup call. Referring to the U.S. as “the big bull’s eye” for international terrorists, the Ressam case “demonstrates that there is a global network . . . that really wants to hit us where we live,” said an unnamed intelligence official, driving home the point that terrorism is now a real threat.

***This was published 6 months BEFORE 9-11****

<http://www.onlinecolumnist.com/032601.html>

The Bush team was all gung-ho Star Wars defense systems. Who knew that Daddy's buddy's kid would destroy the WTC? Who indeed . . .