Since this isn’t new or even halfway original (circulated originally in 2001), here is snopes.com answer to these claims… and before anyone starts screaming I am a Clinton fan, you have no clue… but the facts are the facts… if people want more indepth information, let me know and I will surely do my own leg work in it…

<LI>On 26 February 1993, a car loaded with 1,200 pounds of explosives blew up in a parking garage under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring about a thousand others. The blast did not, as its planners intended, bring down the towers — that was finally accomplished by flying two hijacked airliners into the twin towers on the morning of 11 September 2001.

Four followers of the Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman were captured, convicted of the World Trade Center bombing in March 1994, and sentenced to 240 years in prison each. The purported mastermind of the plot, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, was captured in 1995, convicted of the bombing in November 1997, and also sentenced to 240 years in prison. One additional suspect fled the U.S. and is believed to be living in Baghdad.

<LI>On 13 November 1995, a bomb was set off in a van parked in front of an American-run military training center in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. Saudi Arabian authorities arrested four Saudi nationals whom they claim confessed to the bombings, but U.S. officials were denied permission to see or question the suspects before they were convicted and beheaded in May 1996.

<LI>On 25 June 1996, a booby-trapped truck loaded with 5,000 pounds of explosives was exploded outside the Khobar Towers apartment complex which housed United States military personnel in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing nineteen Americans and wounding about three hundred others. Once again, the U.S. investigation was hampered by the refusal of Saudi officials to allow the FBI to question suspects.

On 21 June 2001, just before the American statute of limitations would have expired, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted thirteen Saudis and an unidentified Lebanese chemist for the Khobar Towers bombing. The suspects remain in Saudi custody, beyond the reach of the American justice system. (Saudi Arabia has no extradition treaty with the U.S.)

<LI>On 7 August 1998, powerful car bombs exploded minutes apart outside the United States embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people and wounding about 5,000 others. Four participants with ties to Osama bin Laden were captured, convicted in U.S. federal court, and sentenced to life in prison without parole in October 2001. Fourteen other suspects indicted in the case remain at large, and three more are fighting extradition in London.

<LI>On 12 October 2000, two suicide bombers detonated an explosives-laden skiff next to the USS Cole while it was refueling in Aden, Yemen, blasting a hole in the ship that killed 17 sailors and injured 37 others. No suspects have yet been arrested or indicted. The investigation has been hampered by the refusal of Yemini officials to allow FBI agents access to Yemeni nationals and other suspects in custody in Yemen.

(The USS Cole bombing occurred one month before the 2000 presidential election, so even under the best of circumstances it was unlikely that the investigation could have been completed before the end of President Clinton’s term of office three months later.)

In August 1998, President Clinton ordered missile strikes against targets in Afghanistan in an effort to hit Osama bin Laden, who had been linked to the embassy bombings in Africa (and was later connected to the attack on the USS Cole). The missiles reportedly missed bin Laden by a few hours, and Clinton was widely criticized by many who claimed he had ordered the strikes primarily to draw attention away from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. As John F. Harris wrote in The Washington Post:

In August 1998, when [Clinton] ordered missile strikes in an effort to kill Osama bin Laden, there was widespread speculation — from such people as Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) — that he was acting precipitously to draw attention away from the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal, then at full boil. Some said he was mistaken for personalizing the terrorism struggle so much around bin Laden. And when he ordered the closing of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House after domestic terrorism in Oklahoma City, some Republicans accused him of hysteria.

. . . the federal budget on anti-terror activities tripled during Clinton’s watch, to about $6.7 billion. After the effort to kill bin Laden with missiles in August 1998 failed — he had apparently left a training camp in Afghanistan a few hours earlier — recent news reports have detailed numerous other instances, as late as December 2000, when Clinton was on the verge of unleashing the military again. In each case, the White House chose not to act because of uncertainty that intelligence was good enough to find bin Laden, and concern that a failed attack would only enhance his stature in the Arab world.

. . . people maintain Clinton should have adapted Bush’s policy promising that regimes that harbor terrorism will be treated as severely as terrorists themselves, and threatening to evict the Taliban from power in Afghanistan unless leaders meet his demands to produce bin Laden and associates. But Clinton aides said such a policy — potentially involving a full-scale war in central Asia — was not plausible before politics the world over became transformed by one of history’s most lethal acts of terrorism.

Clinton’s former national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger . . . said there [was] little prospect . . . that Pakistan would have helped the United States wage war against bin Laden or the Taliban in 1998, even after such outrages as the bombing of U.S. embassies overseas.

Bush gets blamed for not preventing 9-11,though HE WAS ONLY IN OFFICE EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE IT HAPPENED.

Yet,CLINTON was in office eight *YEARS* before that,and the libs never question why he didn’t go after Osama after the 1993 World Trade Center attack a month after his first Inauguration.

There’s a very simple reason why Clinton didn’t go after Osama from Feb. ’93,(the first WTC attack) and January 2001 (when he finally left office.) YOU CAN’T CHASE TERRORISTS AND WOMEN AT THE SAME TIME! Clinton chose to chase women,rather than to protect his country.

Yep Republican Youth… did nothing… now go back in to your hole and ignore the rest of the facts… it is easier that way.

Angelsea- blame for 9/11 can be put on a number of people from both Clinton and Bush years… but to put it on one or the other is overlooking the reality… btw… nice piece of hyperbole on the chasing women and terrorists comment… go apply at your local comedy club…

Drumline- I love it when people call Clinton a lib… it is funny and makes me almost pee in my pants… add in the whole bit about Perot, this nation lost great respect, protection and economic balance and you have yourself a wonderful column… you can call it “Clinton was a dirty lib and other fairy tales” it will be a smash hit with those people who buying the other fantasy titles…

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Pretty slick! You say “blame for 9-11 can be put on a number of people from both Clinton and Bush years”…….only one problem with that! Re-read my comment,I was clearly talking about the PRESENT President Bush,and again,he didn’t have eight YEARS in office before 9-11 like Clinton did…………….he had eight MONTHS. Nice try,lib guy!

As for applying to my local comedy club,I just might take your suggestion. (Lol),it’ll be nice to be in an enviornment without LIBERALS around,it seems that you guys are totally,100% H U M O R L E S S,I can ESCAPE you all there! On the positive side,that’s a clever screenname you have.

Drumline_Kiwi-You’re right about Perot,except I want to add that Perot COULDN’T have taken away so much of the conservative vote,unless Bush hadn’t alienated them with his raising taxes.

WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST LOVE EACH OTHER?!

Oh … right.

Okay, then.

I just thought this was kind of funny, Clinton’s wedding ring is show in the picture … way to keep the Presidential cheating tradtion going there, Billy.

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There most certainly IS a problem with what you said…..you don’t know the difference between MONTHS and YEARS! You made a deceitful statement by saying “blame can be put on a number of people from both Clinton and Bush *YEARS*”(emphasis mine)….. I nailed you on it,and you can’t admit it. This conversation is over,I don’t need to waste my time talking with you until you can apologize for LYING!

Youbetzler-

You make a valid point that Bush wouldn’t have done any better……you’re right,terrorism WASN’T an issue in the 2000 campaign. I have no problem admitting that some of the blame for 9-11 may have rested with the Bush Administration. But it’s eight MONTHS worth of blame,not eight YEARS worth! The other person was trying to give the appearance that Bush was in office for YEARS prior to that terrible September day,and it’s a lie.

Angelsea –
Did you just call him a liar for ” can be put on a number of people from both Clinton and Bush years.”…? Seriously? No, you’re joking, right?

This isn’t a reference to length of term, rather it is a reference to people occupying an office during Clinton’s YEARS as president, and the people occupying an office during Bush’s YEARS as president. Simply because only 8 months had elapsed between inauguration and the terrorist attacks of 9/11 does not mean that the people working in Bush’s administration can’t be described as the “people from Bush’s years.”

What a shameful reason for calling someone a liar. Perhaps you should now apologize for making that kind of accusation over a simple understanding.

I stand behind what I said! He lied,let HIM apologize. Have a great day.