February 21, 2004

Policy Disputes Over Hunt Paralyzed Clinton's Aides

Between 1998 and 2000, the CIA and President Bill Clinton's national security team were caught up in paralyzing policy disputes as they secretly debated the legal permissions for covert operations against Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Typical Clintonista WaPo claptrap in which they try to lay the blame on the CIA and not where it properly belongs--on Bill Clinton.
Check out the closing paragraph:

Some CIA managers chafed at the White House instructions. The CIA received "no written word nor verbal order to conduct a lethal action" against bin Laden before Sept. 11, one official involved recalled. "The objective [under the Clinton Administration] was to render this guy to law enforcement." In these operations, the CIA had to recruit agents "to grab [bin Laden] and bring him to a secure place where we can turn him over to the FBI. . . . If they had said 'lethal action' it would have been a whole different kettle of fish, and much easier."

William Jefferson Blythe, clearly one of the most ineffectual presidents in our history, as well as it most immoral, was perpetually hampered by overcerebration, overemphasis on the handling of international terrorism and murder as an intellectual exercise, complete dependence on popularity polls, and most of all, his innate loathing of the military which resulted in his consequent inability to deploy our forces properly as Command in Chief.
Thank Heaven we now have a President who is his complete opposite!
Not only have we bagged Saddam, 45 of the 55 Most Wanted of the Iraqi criminals and 2/3 of Al Queda leadership, but there have been increasingly frequent reports in the past few weeks, that we're closing the net on Osama (if he's still alive) in the mountainous badlands of eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan.
Good Hunting to the US military and thank God for President Bush, a President who has the political will to get the murderer Osama!