Bill Clinton takes the Oath of Office

[aha45]

Chelsea looks a little ape-like.

[gonadcancervictim]

thank you ross perot, my first act as president is to make it impossible for any 3rd part candidate to have a chance in hell again

[davleuv]

This happened 4 months before I was born!!!!!

[mcacts1]

I Barak Hussein Obama- do solemnly swear- that I will execute- the office president of the United States faithfully- and will to be best my ability- preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States. So help me God. Is that how it goes? It sounds funny....

[RWT683]

Wow that Rehnquist was one inspiring SOB wasn't he?

[fastbatmanbourne]

it's unfair to blame 9/11 on Clinton. He wasn't president at the time, Bush was. It happened while he was in his 8th month as commander in chief. The people to blame though is Bin laden and his terrorist network. so it's not even Bush's fault it happened. i don't think it was an inside job either. He's not that smart to pull one off. But is to blame for the economy. When he came in office there was a surplus left by Clinton. now we owe billions to china. It took him a week to help neworleans

[ADEAL918]

It's both presidents' faults. It was planned mostly on Clinton's watch and because of his idiotic restrictions on the intelligence community we were never able to find out what was in the works. Bush did nothing to change these policies in his first 8 months in office, true, so he certainly deserves his share of blame. But that plot should have been stopped LONG before Bush ever took office. And it's not about getting bin Laden either--it's about intelligence tools that Clinton never allowed

[ADEAL918]

he may have been a good president economically, but it was his restrictions on intelligence gathering that allowed 9/11 to happen. Yes Bush was asleep at the switch for the first eight months of his presidency as well, but 9/11 was planned for four years at least while Clinton was in the White House--it should have been stopped in its tracks long before Bush ever took office.

[kidkavon]

u can fault clinton for not taking out bin laden when he had him in his crosshairs, but the fault for letting 9/11 happen falls solely on bush. when you have intelligence saying that foreign terrorists plan on driving planes into the twin towers, u have to act on that intelligence. the intel was there and bush ignored it.

[ADEAL918]

I'm not faulting Clinton at all for not getting bin Laden. Osama's nothing but a figurehead anyway--getting would be nothing but a symbolic victory. I'm faulting Clinton for the restrictions he placed on the intelligence community. His own advisors testify to this. And Bush only had intelligence that said they were planning to attack inside the U.S. using jetliners--nothing more specific than this. And it was because of Clinton's intelligence policies that he couldn't learn the specifics.

[MarkProffitt]

Israeli intelligence, Mossad, tried twice to warn the CIA and FBI that of a plan to run airplanes into building near the beginning of Sep 2001. They were refused an audience. It was all reported in Israeli news papers.

A US State Department alert was sent out Friday before the attacks, and was even reported on NPR in the USA.

[ADEAL918]

Which the FBI and CIA probably foolishly believed either that they had it under control or that it was not a credible threat. I can't say all the circumstances surrounding it, but I will remind you of all the other "threats'" that have been cited since 9/11, some credible, some not, but many disregarded by much of the intelligence community. We didn't have the system in place at the time that we needed to make such determinations.

[insanedavis109]

clinton came closer to getting bin laden and tried harder then bush ever did bush just waged a bogus war in iraq to take control of its oil reserves the only thhing good about iraq was they got suddam and for that you have to give bush credit. clinton at least tried to get bin laden.

[ADEAL918]

This isn't about if he got bin Laden. It's about whether he gave the intelligence community the tools they needed to find out what plots were in the works and to nip them in the bud. Bush did this after 9/11. Clinton never did. By the way, Iraq had ZERO to do with oil and everything to do with WMD intelligence that turned out to be wrong, but that Bush had every reason to believe was credible. Saddam's own henchmen believed it. But that wasn't what kept us safe. Intelligence overhauls did.

[MarkProffitt]

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield and the rest of them had published their intention to invade Iraq in 2000, a year BEFORE 9/11 attack. And they said the only way the people of the USA would support it would be for another Pearl Harbor type of event.

This is all documented on their website, Project for the New American Century in a document named RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

[ADEAL918]

It was a hypothetical possibility, that yes, it was understood that eventually Saddam had to be driven from power if the issue of international terrorism was ever to be addressed. If you're trying to claim this as support for 9/11 being an "inside job" you need a MAJOR crash course in corelation vs. causation

[MarkProffitt]

Osama bin Laden was captured by Sudan and the Sudanese government requested he be extradited to the USA to face charges for attacks against the USA but Clinton refused to extradite him. Clinton had him and purposely let him go.

[ADEAL918]

And I never defended this. I always have said that Bush and Clinton are both to blame for 9/11 happening.

[gumby118]

We need a president like Clinton. Clinton

was good because he didn't fuck up the

economy like Bush is right now. Bush is

totally ruining the country and hes the worst

leader we've had since Jimmy Carter.

[insanedavis109]

jimmy wasnt so bad.

[gumby118]

Wait a minute, your that same fool who

told me that Lyndon B. Johnson was mostly responsible for John F. Kennedy's

death, which is so not true. And Carter

technically was a bad president because

he was responsible for the Iran hostage

crisis and he didn't do shit to get anyone

freed.

[ADEAL918]

The threat that we face from radical Islam can in many ways trace back to the Khomeni revolution in Iran while Carter was president.