100,000 dead because the Clinton administration “wouldn’t fire first.”
The Clinton administration had 9 opportunities to kill Osama bin Laden. Hours before 9/11, Bill Clinton gave a speech in Australia bragging that, “I nearly got him once. I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have had to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him.”
Almost 3,000 people died. Over a hundred thousand died in the ensuing conflicts.
Now Leon Panetta, Bill Clinton’s former chief-of-staff who served various security roles in the Obama administration, which belatedly got Osama, has popped up to criticize Israel for being too ready to kill terrorists.
“You have to be able to verify to take time to make sure that information that you’re getting is accurate with regards to targets,” Panetta said on CNN “And I have to tell you that in the past, at least in my experience, the Israelis usually fire and then ask questions.”
That’s not true. Israel has a decision pipeline of its own. One that has cost the lives of Israeli soldiers including on Oct 7 where helicopters did not have permission to attack soon enough.
But do Americans really want the Democrat approach to national security in which the failure to get Osama bin Laden 9 times led to 9/11 or a willingness to actually take out the terrorists?
Under Obama, the onerous rules of engagement costs the lives of thousands of American soldiers.
And Leon Panetta’s old boss was bragging about his moral superiority about refusing to value the lives of Muslim terrorists and their family members in Kandahar over that of Americans.
That’s not morality, it’s a suicide pact.
During the 9th time when Bill Clinton once again refused to take out Osama bin Laden or even bomb the Taliban,
an unnamed official asked: “Does al-Qaeda have to attack the Pentagon to get their attention?”
And now you know the rest of the story.
100,000 dead because the Clinton administration “wouldn’t fire first”. Or second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eight or ninth.
Bruce D Watt says
he also allowed the 800,000 Hutu and Tootsies to hack each other to death and not a word.
somehistory says
More of the hypocrisy. They all want to be judge and jury …of their own and of others’ decisions. They judge themselves as righteous and right, while those they hate are evil and wrong…no matter what.
And they just keep piling on
hamas wants to destroy Israel and the people like panetta are fine with that as long as Israel doesn’t destroy the terrorists.
“The latest sunshine ally is Nancy Pelosi. The former House Speaker joined a letter signed by 40 House Democrats urging President Biden to stop transferring weapons to Israel. In the wake of the mistaken bombing on a relief convoy, the Members write, “we strongly urge you to reconsider your recent decision to authorize the transfer of a new arms package to Israel, and to withhold this and any future offensive arms transfers until a full investigation into the airstrike is completed.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/opinion-democrats-play-into-hamas-s-hands/ar-BB1le59Z
Ray Jarman says
As usual Somehistory, you are so correct. These fools keep forgetting that the best defense is a tenacious offence which they certainly have refused to apply since the days of Harry Truman.
somehistory says
Thqnk you, Ray. I’ve never been to war, but I have watched a lot of football.
The announcers always seem dismayed when they have to say, “this game, if the …..win, it will be by their defense.”
tgusa says
And I have to tell you that in the past, at least in my experience, the democrats ask questions and never fire. They also have a run plan handy if they need one.
Mike says
In fairness to President Clinton though, it is possible that the 9/11 attacks may have occurred even if Osama had been killed before they were carried out.
Terrorists are often recruited in one country, trained in a second one, and sent to a third one, and it’s possible that Osama himself may have not been directly responsible for the attacks.
Nonetheless,given Osama’s status in the al-Qaeda organization and how dangerous he was, Clinton should have killed him when he had the chance, even if several hundred innocents would have died, tragic though that would have been.
tgusa says
I used to be a fair minded guy Mike but the democrats didn’t like that version of me so I trashed canned that version and became something else. I hope they enjoy the new me.
Keys says
Here’s Johnny !
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