Just hours before 9/11, Bill Clinton admitted he had Bin Laden in the cross-hairs, but refused to act

There's a a good reason the Democrat Party has always been referred to as The Party of Weakness™. Its track record of foreign policy failures -- from Carter to Clinton to Obama -- has been perfect. Oh-for-three.

Remember how the leftists always used to blame 9/11 on Bush, despite 8 years of Islamist attacks on U.S. interests that were treated as crimes -- not acts of war -- by B.J. Clinton?

If memory serves, the Democrat fairy tale involved Bush getting a Presidential Daily Briefing in August of 2001. Here's the complete sentence from the PDB, one of 800 warnings that month.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an [redacted] service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's access to the US to mount a terrorist strike.

Gee, that seems specific. Damn that Bush, always missing obvious leads like that.

Well, it turns out that B.J. had multiple chances to kill Bin Laden and shrank away from his responsibilities due to political concerns. And just hours before 9/11, he actually admitted it, in one of his hundreds of $150,000 speeches, many to foreign entities.

Nothing to see here, just move along, kids.

A recording has turned up in Australia in which former President Bill Clinton explains why he didn’t kill Osama bin Laden, just hours before the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. He made the comment reportedly during a Sept. 10 meeting with business leaders in Australia, ABC news reports:

“And I’m just saying, you know, if I were Osama bin Laden … He’s a very smart guy. I spent a lot of time thinking about him. And I nearly got him once,” Clinton said in the audio.

“I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have had to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him.

“And so I didn’t do it.”

Clinton had multiple chances, it turns out, to kill or capture Bin Laden (and that's according to 60 Minutes).

But for Democrats, political expediency -- not the interests of the American people -- always come first.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.