Anonymous wrote:

How would Bill Clinton have known that 3000 would die if he didn't kill Osama bin Laden? He didn't know about what would happen at 9/11. Also, there would have been a huge outcry, given that it would be killing Osama bin Laden for absolutely no offense, but rather paranoia. Republicans would probably impeach him again, and then try him for murder. We know now that Osama killed more than would have died, but hindsight is 20/20.

Do a little research. Why do you think they were hunting Bin Laden?

How would Bill Clinton have known that 3000 would die if he didn't kill Osama bin Laden? He didn't know about what would happen at 9/11. Also, there would have been a huge outcry, given that it would be killing Osama bin Laden for absolutely no offense, but rather paranoia. Republicans would probably impeach him again, and then try him for murder. We know now that Osama killed more than would have died, but hindsight is 20/20.

Anonymous wrote:

Muslima wrote:Was it worth killing 300 civilians to capture one man? No.....

On this, I have to disagree. He killed 3000+ and those civilians should have thought twice about allowing him to be their neighbor or guest.

Scheuer explained that the situation, in Dec. 1998, did not unfold the way Clinton claimed, calling the former president a "liar."

Scheuer recalls that bin Laden had gone from his home in southern Kandahar to Kandahar city to meet with Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders. He said bin Laden stayed too late and ended up staying the night in a wing of the governor's palace.

"We had an asset that put him in that room, escorted him there and reported to us where he was. The attack would have occurred in the middle of the night and it would have killed no one but Taliban people and Usama bin Laden and his crew," said Scheuer.

He recalled that on that day in 1998, he was at the White House while then-CIA Director George Tenet met with Clinton about a potential strike against bin Laden.

"When Tenet came out, he didn't say a word. But when we got back in the car, he told us that they had decided not to shoot because they were afraid some of the shrapnel from the cruise missiles would have hit a mosque that was nearby and that the Muslim world would rise up and attack Americans," he said.

Muslima wrote:Was it worth killing 300 civilians to capture one man? No.....

Anonymous wrote:

Sure, "Clinton" could have killed OBL. But on what basis at that time? The Embassy bombings or the first WTC attack? At the time (back when our policymakers still understood the difference between a criminal act and a military attack), the U.S. government didn;t hunt down its adversaries and kill them out of hand.

You forgot about the Cole!

Anonymous wrote:

Are you incapable of reading the 9/11 commission report ?

Not poster to whom you are responding.

I think the interesting thing here is to hear Bill publicly admit it. That was NOT in the report.

Are you incapable of reading the 9/11 commission report ?