Blasts from the Past - Clinton's Obsession with Osama

(Not in order by Date)

MY FAVORITE from September 22, 1998

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Keeping his public focus on international events, President Clinton renewed a global call to arms against terrorism yesterday and attacked the idea that it is mainly an American problem of American making.
"This is a threat to all humankind," Clinton said in a 21-minute speech to the opening of the 53rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. The hundreds of delegates gave Clinton a RARE STANDING OVATION as he was introduced in the cavernous hall at U.N. headquarters.

http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1998/sep/09-22-98/news/news4.html

November 6, 1998

New York -- A U.S. Federal Grand Jury in New York on Nov. 5 issued an
indictment against Usama Bin Laden alleging that he and others engaged
in a long-term conspiracy to attack U.S. facilities overseas and to
kill American citizens.

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/11/98110602_nlt.html

August 21, 1998

Events Leading Up To Clinton's Order To Strike Back
Last 13 days extraordinary for a president facing personal crisis

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/21/tictoc.king/

WASHINGTON -- Dozens of U.S. cruise missiles struck targets in Afghanistan and the Sudan on Thursday in what President Clinton described as an act of self-defense against imminent terrorist plots and of retribution for the bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa two weeks ago.

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/082198attack-us.html

August 20, 1998

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

Edgartown Elementary School

Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts

1:55 P.M. EDT

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/downloads/1998-08-20-clinton.htm

August 24, 1998

Did Bill Clinton Smooth the Way for Bin Laden to Become the World's Most Successful Terrorist?
Osama Bin Laden, Bill Clinton, Bosnia and Fundamentalist Muslims
By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources

http://www.bannerofliberty.com/OS8-98MQC/8-24-1998.1.html

August 27, 1998

LOW GAS PRICES -- Bill Cohen, of Ohio Public Radio, reports that many vacation drivers are being pleasantly surprised by gasoline prices under a dollar a gallon. The average price for self-serve regular is now $1.02 a gallon. Gas prices were low when the summer began, but continued to fall right through the peak driving season. (3:30)

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980827.atc.html

CLINTON DECLARES HIS WAR ON OSAMA BIN LADEN
(American Patriot Fiends Network)

On August 20th President Clinton launched scores of Tomahawk cruise missiles against alleged terrorist sites in Afghanistan and Sudan. (alleged???)

Sudan's president Omar el-Bashir strongly protested this act of terrorism perpetrated by Americans on the sovereign state of Sudan. He is pressing hard to show the world that the only thing America took out was a pharmaceutical factory that produced half of the country's medicine supply. Its main products were drugs used to combat malaria and tuberculosis. The president went on to say that Sudan would launch a complaint with the United Nations since the U.S. violated international law in its attack on a sovereign nation.

http://www.apfn.org/thewinds/1998/08/clinton_osama.htm

See all from the Google search here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%2Bclinton+%2Bosama+%2B1998+-2000+-2001+-2002+-2003+-2004+-2005+-2006&btnG=Search

k&r

Well, could not we go further back in our time machine and ask:
What the hell did George Bush I do to stop Osama? I mean why not do that? He had the whole middle east in his grubby little hands back in 1991, so why not take Osama out right then either?

Now HERE is a concept for y'all,

It has struck me that this "non-issue" (really if you think about all the treason this admin is doing, this is a non-issue) is REALLY the DLC re-asserting itself as the controller of ALL things Democrat.
I mean it is all a Clinton (+administration) face saving thing that now supposedly ALL good Dems come to the aid of their "fearless leader." Well, it really is sapping our "momentum" on other more important issues, and the corporate controlled DLC KNOWS THAT.

So, I have stayed outside the blogosphere on this one, except for the few phone calls to ABC radio to gnash my teeth on the air, with the likes of Levin (the Zionist) and the new idiot (Jerry) last night taking over Laura Ingram's 8-10 slot in the NY ABC market.

Screw Disney and ABC, they were the next to fall to the nazis after Fox anyway, everyone knew that. I believe that ABC is also stirring the pot to get all good Dems back into the DLC fold, as Hilary was starting to get REALLY antsy at the calls to debate Tasini and with Lamont, and the Screw the DLC push happening as of late, I feel this is the motive for the over-hype of this non-issue.

This all just another Corporate-control of our sense of "what is important."

:hi:
My concern is the latest attempt to rewrite history. We cannot sit back and allow it to happen, no matter what.

Get this in front of the people

Published on Tuesday, March 23, 2004 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune

(snip)

Rice would have Americans believe the Bush administration came into office eager to confront terrorism and willing to spend what was necessary to do that. The record, however, says otherwise -- in budgets, in priorities, in the well corroborated obsession the administration had with attacking Saddam Hussein. As it came into office, the Bush administration's take on President Bill Clinton was that he had been too obsessed with Osama bin Laden. The Bush team didn't intend to do that. But between the two obsessions, Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden, we'd say that Clinton, with Clarke's advice, made the right choice.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0323-06.htm