Did you know Osama before 9-11
 

Did you know about Osama, Al Qaeda(sp?), and of Taliban before 9-11-01

nope

Personally? yea. we had sleep overs.

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you mean the guy america supplied with training. Yes.

yea man, we used to sip whiskey and smoke cubans on thursday evenings.

Yeah, but I didn't care; nor do I really care now.

I met him at a French Pocket Protector Collectors Covention in Sioux Falls, Iowa.

Yes, I said when I first saw it that I thought it could only be him...I'd heard
and read enough about him and his "goals" to jump to that conclusion.

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Situations change Pyro, why even on this forum it's possible that
someone who was formerly an "ally" would now happily snap your spine...

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[quote="Eight Ace":425da]Situations change Pyro, why even on this forum it's possible that
someone who was formerly an "ally" would now happily snap your spine...[/quote:425da]

You would never do that to me right?

I knew about The Taliban for a long time but didn't do any research into it until I heard about Commander Massood of the Northern Alliance when I was in grade 9. about a year before 911. I have known about Osama for quite some time. Ever ince he bombed the Embassy's in Africa and the USS Cole bombing.

I only knew that Clinton mentioned him once as a terrorist from Afganistan.

never heard of him before 9/11

he bombed our embassies in africa and the uss cole not to mention clinton could have caught him but decided not to.

I remember 20/20 did a special on him in 2000.

ya. The moment our principle told us about 9/11 Iwas like. "Bin laden." And no one else believed me.
man are they dumb.

[quote="Unknown_Sniper":929fa]ya. The moment our principle told us about 9/11 Iwas like. "Bin laden." And no one else believed me.
man are they dumb.[/quote:929fa]

thats funny cause i was like towel heads and everyone believed me.

and for that tragic laps of judgement bill clinton has the blood of all the people lost on 9/11 on his hands. had he delt with that asshole then those people would be alive and the buildings still standing today. 9/11 would have never happened.

How about you two little bitches both shut the fuck up because you dont know what youre talking about. If i remember correctly, it was on W's watch 9 months into his term. He had plenty of briefings with the CIA, FBI and other officials but he decided to take a little vacation that summer and choked on a pretzel.

yep sure did. They supspected him and his crew the ( "taleeban") of blowing up that U.S Crew ship that killed a few american soldiers back in '99 i think

Yeah add to that the fact that Bush sat and read a story about a goat for ~30 minutes knowing full well a plane had hit the first building. He also claimed to have watched the 1st plane hit on a TV in the school. I'd like to know how he did that becuase the media didn't get any footage of the 1st strike until much, much later in the day. eek:

yeah i knew about bin laden for the 2 events above:
embassy bombings in africa
boat bombing of those ships

i partially agree with madmartagen about the bush being on watch, but clinton did a lot of really retarded things, take the somalia (black hawk down) crisis for example. bill clinton, when it came to foreign policy and dealing with known terrorists, was fuckin borderline (retarded)

i saw this interview yesterday while at work, i dont remember the guy's name, but it seems that bush wanted this man to find evidence of iraq's direct involvement in 9-11. he said bush never asked him to make anything up, but that he wanted to hear that iraq was responsible no matter what....so basically bush was after iraq from square one, and there was more to us going to war than a bullshit wmd hunt

I agree that Clinton fucked up Somalia, but i think its stupid to blame him for 9/11. Its so hypocritical for republicans to blame clinton for 9/11 when he wasnt even in office and to blame him for the 93 bombing of the WTC when he was only in office for 4 months or so. If anyone should take the blame for 9/ll other than Osama bin Laden, it should be Bush.

we were homies back in the day

ok..reverse it. had bush been in office when the trade got bombed the first time he would have smaked bin laden right quick. those sailors and all those people from 9/11 would still be with us.

it comes down to the same thing. clintons huge lack of balls. if he spent more time takin care of business instead of gettin his unit serviced things might be different today. clintons lack of action cost the lives of 1000s of people. plain and simple. his little slap on the wrist just reinforced bin ladens belief that americans were cowards and would not fight.

he knows different now...but its too late for those lost souls.

1. Clinton didn't supposedly have the means".

2. He wasnt considered such a threat that he would do 9/11

3. Bush has his hand in the cookie jar a lot deeper my friend.

4. Ban Eames already Mods. THis is the millionth strike of racial slurrs he has spewed out onto this board. Lets do this place a favor.

Dude what are you talking about? After the first bombing in 93 Clinton launched a dragnet that captured those responsible for the bombing. Because of that, they are currently spending their days rotting in Attica somewhere. Also, surveillence videos leaked recently shows that the Clinton administration was actively looking for him in Afghanistan. He also launched missles against targets that were believed to be involved with his network. If republicans had spent less time flooding congress and the media with tales of Clintons sex life, maybe he could have done more and maybe it would be more widely known that he took an active role in trying to find Bin Laden. Its bullshit to put this blame squarely on Clinton. He didnt know what was going to happen 9 months out of his term of office. Bush had the intelligence available to him the whole time he was in office and he was briefed over and over again my the departing administration.

All I can say is that there are people to blame... and I know NONE OF US have the right to throw out names to who it was. Now that 9/11 happened, hopefully it opened the eyes of everyone and maybe that kind of event can be prevented from happening again.

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Pyro, we supplied him and trained them to use them as pawns against the U.S.S.R. They were nothing more then expendable people we used in the cold war. In all your jealousy and jaded perception of how exactly the world works you may have failed to see that enemys turn to allys and allys turn to enemies. Its how the world works. Grow up kid, you do more crying and moaning then anyone Ive ever met.

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Dude, sometimes you have to make alliances with shady people to get shit done. We were involved in a global competition with another superpower and it was a means to fight our adversary. This isnt the first or last time the US or any other nation for that matter to make deals with disreputable people. We made deals with Saddam and overlords in South America to fight the Iranians. You cant fight this kind of shit without getting dirty. But there are limits, we dont start blowing up innocent civilians when we hit a road block.

Nope

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