He has two signs that he's lying....his lips move & that stupid finger points & wags
We got one of the most prolific liars in history with GWB, Clinton can't compete on that front.
DUBYA was meeting with the Taliban from 1998 through March of 2001 on an gas pipeline deal.
Democrats under President Clinton;
- sent legislation to Congress to tighten airport security BEFORE 9/11. (The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.)
- sent legislation to Congress to allow for better tracking of terrorist funding. (It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.)
- sent legislation to Congress to add tagging agents to explosives, to allow for better tracking of explosives used by terrorists. (It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.)
When Republicans couldn't prevent executive action, Democrat President Clinton:
- Developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy.
- Stopped a planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously.
- Stopped a planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters.
- Stopped a planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters.
- Stopped a planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
-Stopped a planned attack to blow up Boston airport.
- Stopped a planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY.
- Stopped a planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge.
- Stopped a planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania.
- Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the GOP).
- Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.
- Did not blame Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days after they had left office. Instead, worked hard and successfully to stop future terrorist attacks.
- Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.
- Tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism.
- Detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries
- Created a national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
- Robert Oakley, Reagan Counterterrorism Czar says of Democrat Clinton's efforts "Overall, I give them very high marks" and "The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama..."
- Paul Bremer, Bush's Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley saying he believed the Clinton Administration had "correctly focused on bin Laden."
- Barton Gellman of the Washington Post put it best, "By any measure available, Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him" and was the "first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort."
Here, in stark contrast, is part of the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism record before September 11, 2001:
-- Backed off Clinton administration's anti-terrorism efforts.
-- Shelved the Hart-Rudman report.
-- Appointed new anti-terrorism task force under Dick Cheney. Group did not even meet before 9/11.
-- Called for cuts in anti-terrorism efforts by the Department of Defense.
-- Gave no priority to anti-terrorism efforts by Justice Department.
-- Ignored warnings from Sandy Berger, Louis Freeh, George Tennant, Paul Bremer, and Richard Clarke about the urgency of terrorist threats.
-- Halted Predator drone tracking of Osama bin Laden.
-- Did nothing in wake of August 6 C.I.A. report to president saying Al Qaeda attack by hijack of an airliner almost certain.
-- Bush - knowing about the terrorists' plans to attack in America, warned that terrorists were in flight schools in the US - took a four week vacation.
-- By failing to order any coordination of intelligence data, missed opportunity to stop the 9/11 plot as Clinton-Gore had stopped the millennium plots.
-- Blamed President Clinton for 9/11. "