So an interesting audio tape has been uncovered of a speech that the newly former President Bill Clinton gave to a group of businessmen in Melbourne, Australia on September 10, 2001. This was one of those well-paid gigs that Bill is famous for now. The recording was released last week by Michael Kroger, the former head of the Liberal Party in Australia who recently rediscovered the long forgotten taping. So here is the gist of what Clinton said only 10 hours before the attacks on September 11, 2001 -
If you listened to the audio, you will hear laughter in the background. The aborted hit on bin Laden was purportedly planned and aborted in 1998 and the "little town called Kandahar" was actually bin Laden's training camp outside of Kandahar. I wonder what would have happened if Clinton had not feared what his legacy would have been and how many American lives could have been saved. Oh, and just in case you have forgotten, this aborted attempt didn't come out of nowhere. The reason Clinton had been thinking about bid Laden was that bin Laden's Al Qaeda was responsible for the bombing our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998 where 240 were killed and over 4000 were injured to be followed up in 2000 with the attack on the USS Cole in the port in Yemen where 17 sailors died and 39 were injured. Oh, yeah, and the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 too. Yeah, I know, it's the "what ifs" that get us every time, but I just hope that $150,000 speaking fee was worth it the next day.
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"I'm just saying, you know, if I were Osama bin Laden - he's a very smart guy, I've spent a lot of time thinking about him - and I nearly got him once. I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have 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."
If you listened to the audio, you will hear laughter in the background. The aborted hit on bin Laden was purportedly planned and aborted in 1998 and the "little town called Kandahar" was actually bin Laden's training camp outside of Kandahar. I wonder what would have happened if Clinton had not feared what his legacy would have been and how many American lives could have been saved. Oh, and just in case you have forgotten, this aborted attempt didn't come out of nowhere. The reason Clinton had been thinking about bid Laden was that bin Laden's Al Qaeda was responsible for the bombing our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998 where 240 were killed and over 4000 were injured to be followed up in 2000 with the attack on the USS Cole in the port in Yemen where 17 sailors died and 39 were injured. Oh, yeah, and the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 too. Yeah, I know, it's the "what ifs" that get us every time, but I just hope that $150,000 speaking fee was worth it the next day.