The very phrasing of what you quoted reveals this so-called "the record" you posted, to be a partisan spin-site.
When I clicked on your link... it'a a blog !
When you said "the record", I was expecting an excerpt from a congressional transcript, an intelligence report, or even an editorial assessment by the new York Tiomes or Washington Post. Not even !
I would point out that you presented a Clinton mini list of your own on your previous post. No link so I would assume your the source. Guess I'm not seeing the big difference. Now Blogs can be a source of misinformation (as well as dramitizations) but factually did you have a problem with what the blog presented?
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-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously.
I thought the FBI did that.
That falls into the same category as Bush capturing Saddam or any terrorist attacks thwarted post 9/11 IMHO.
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-- Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P. ).
Far from the truth, Republicans have criticized Clinton for blowing several opportunities to arrest or kill Bin Ladin. As I detailed in my post above.
No, some Republicans criticised Clinton right after the bombing attempts for Saddam & Osama. Arlan Specter was one of them. It's more a case of twisting events to criticise Clinton post 9/11. Case in point, the one incident in "Path" where you see Osama walking in the background while the Clinton Administration shuts down the operation to get him had in reallity been called off weeks before by George Tennent.
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-- Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.
These actions were detailed in the Road to 9-11 program.
The conservative version not based on the 9/11 report. The version Rush Limbaugh praised for it's accuracy.
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-- 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, even obsessively -- and successfully -- to stop future terrorist attacks.
That's very funny, because the Democrats invented the blame-game regarding terror, after 9-11. It was only after the Democrats initiated the blame-game, that Republicans countered that many of the things blamed on Bush and Republicans were actually bungled by the Clinton administration.
I don't agree. Republicans had spent 8 yrs trying to get Clinton. Blaming him for 9/11 wasn't a start but simply a continuation of what they had been doing all along.
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-- Created a national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
That begs the question: if Clinton created this stoickpile, why are authorities under Bush struggling to stockpile them now?
Not an expert but I don't think those things have an indefinite shelf life. And are you mixing it up with the bird flu where Bush is playing catch up because he was slow to act?
Quote: -- Robert Oakley, Reagan Counterterrorism Czar says of 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." ...
