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Dave the Wonder Boy said:

• The 1993 World Trade Center bombing
  
• The ambush in Mogadishu, Somalia (because Clinton did not station adequate backup troops, if the troops came under heavy fire, because for politically correct reasons, he minimized the troops he sent there. Which resulted in a unit of Army Rangers getting slaughtered, and their corpses dragged through the streets on global television)
  
• Also in 1993, Clinton cut and ran from Somalia instead of militarily finishing the job. Paying more attention to popularity polls than doing the job right, he pulled our troops out. Muslims all over the world, and Al Qaida in particular, still cite this as proof that Americans are cowards, which further incites them to attack us.
  
• The 1995 bombing of U.S. troop barracks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Clinton's inaction led to later Al Qaida terror on a greater scale.
  
• The 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in the capitals of Kenya and Tanzania. Clinton's answer to this was to lob a few cruise missiles at Al Qaida camps in Sudan and Afghanistan. But it well acknowledged by Pentagon insiders at the time that this was known in advance to be a minimal, inneffectual illusion of action, that would not stop the threat, but would look tough to the American public. Clinton didn't do a larger and more effective attack in 1998, because he was attempting to negotiate a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. And a larger attack would have upset that agreement.
  
• And furthermore, Clinton's inneffectual 1998 cruise missile attack is what made Osama Bin Ladin an international hero to the entire Muslim world, for standing up to the United States and surviving. If a real effort was made THEN, to really stop Bin Ladin, then 9-11 would never have occurred.
  Again, Clinton's inaction led to later Al Qaida terror on a greater scale.
  
• The bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, at port in Yemen, in October 2000. Again, no response, because Clinton was negotiating peace in Israel/Palestine, and didn't want to upset the Arabs.
  Again, Clinton's inaction led to later Al Qaida terror on an increasingly greater scale.
  
• And likewise, beyond Al Qaida and terrorism, if Clinton had not naively signed away roughly a billion a year in energy give-aways to North Korea, with no verification required regarding inspection of their nuclear facilities, then North Korea would not have had 10 years to secretly build nuclear weapons.
  
• And likewise, if Clinton did not have a contempt for national security, and fill his administration with liberals who likewise had a contempt for national security, China would not have had the opportunity to steal nuclear secrets and missile technology, to build better ICBM's that can now reach the United States. This is something that will come back to haunt us, in the coming decades.
  
• Clinton also had incentive to invade Iraq in 1995, when high-level Iraqi military defectors first began telling that Saddam Hussein had a secret WMD program, that he was hiding from U.N. weapons inspectors.
  And again in 1998, when Saddam Hussein pushed out U.N. weapons inspectors entirely from Iraq (violating the 1991 peace terms), Clinton again did nothing. Again demonstrating weakness that invited attack on the U.S.
  
• And likewise, not resolving the situation in Iraq, maintaining Northern and Southern no-fly zones in Iraq, and troops in Saudi Arabia, was the specific reason Osama Bin Ladin declared his Al Qaida Jihad on the United States.
  Again, a situation where, if Clinton resolved the Iraq situation, rather than leaving our troops there indefinitely, the Al Qaida rationalization for 9-11 might have ceased to exist.
  

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