Reply #52: people keep citing this

[northzax]

without really knowing what happened. First off, shall we remember that this was 1999 (Clinton administration, you know, the husband of the Senator so opposed to this deal?) And that the UAE had helped us track down the bomber of the Cole? So maybe we didn't want to piss off the most moderate Arab state in the Middle East, the place we use as out major port in the region?

oh, right. Clinton was planning the 9/11 terror attacks with bin Laden, so he didn't want to kill him, and then he couldn't pull it off in time, but Bush took over and got it done. is that how it went?

and it's not possible that someone could have tolerated bin Laden before 9/11, when his targets were purely military and government, and turned on him after he targeted civilians?