I think the criticism he getting to him just a tad, you think!?
No wonder he tried so hard to get the 9/11 movie stopped.
The thing is I, as a “right winger” (his words in the Fox interview) don’t “blame” him for inaction.
I don’t know about anybody else on the right but I think dude just had a different focus for his administration, and got distracted with stupid shit like M.L.
Clinton was simply the type of guy who wanted to be liked, by every damm body and did not want to take risks and take decisive action. Any Democrat would have been the same type of president and tried shoving diplomacy down our collective throats and hoped that those terrorists would just go away and be nice.  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) (Article Link) - Former President Bill Clinton, angrily defending his efforts to capture Osama bin Laden, accused the Bush administration of doing far less to stop the al Qaeda leader before the September 11 attacks.
In a heated interview to be aired on Sunday on “Fox News Sunday,” the former Democratic president defended the steps he took after al Qaeda’s attack on the USS Cole in 2000 and faulted “right-wingers” for their criticism of his efforts to capture Osama bin Laden.
“But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now,” Clinton said when asked whether he had failed to fully anticipate bin Laden’s danger. “They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed.”
The September 11 attacks occurred almost eight months after President George W. Bush succeeded Clinton in January 2001.
“I authorized the CIA to get groups together to try to kill him,” Clinton said.

He added HE had drawn up plans to go into Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and launch an attack against bin Laden after the attack on the Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden.

Sorry people but he is fucking lying there. Ok picture ANY president sitting in a dark room, drinking some wine, clothes wrinkled, intently looking at a detailed map, telling his minions,
 “ok folks” (remember to use you Clinton voice) “ya see were, gonna send out troops, up yander, were gonna flank our boys over this ridge, hit them with the heavy artillery and blast those terrorist sons of bitches out of those caves and pin then down HERE! I think we have us a plan y’all, call the Joint Chiefs and get them in here so I can brief them on what we is gonna do”

“Now if you want to criticize me for one thing, you can criticize me for this: after the Cole, I had battle plans drawn to go into Afghanistan, (cough, liar…) overthrow the Taliban and launch a full-scale attack search for bin Laden. But we needed basing rights in Uzbekistan — which we got after 9/11,” Clinton said.
The former president complained at the time the CIA and FBI refused to certify bin Laden was responsible for the USS Cole attack.
“While I was there, they refused to certify. So that meant I would have had to send a few hundred special forces in helicopters, refuel at night,” he said.
Earlier this month, Clinton dismissed as “indisputably wrong” a U.S. television show that suggested her was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky scandal to confront the Islamic militant threat that culminated in the September 11 attacks.

“Now if you want to criticize me for one thing, you can criticize me for this: after the Cole,  (cough, liar…) overthrow the Taliban and launch a full-scale attack search for bin Laden. But we needed basing rights in Uzbekistan — which we got after 9/11,” Clinton said.The former president complained at the time the CIA and FBI refused to certify bin Laden was responsible for the USS Cole attack.”While I was there, they refused to certify. So that meant I would have had to send a few hundred special forces in helicopters, refuel at night,” he said.Earlier this month, Clinton dismissed as “indisputably wrong” a U.S. television show that suggested her was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky scandal to confront the Islamic militant threat that culminated in the September 11 attacks.
 

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