Bin Laden returns
So, Hannity says, “Liberals want to tie this to the War on Iraq as a means for having not gotten him. The best opportunity we did have was when Sudan offered Bin Laden to America to Clinton and we passed on it 3 times.”
Aren’t Republicans the party of responsibility? Then why hasn’t the R’s gotten bin Laden yet? Why did we allow Bin Laden to escape from Kabul? Why did we allow Bin Laden to escape from the Tora Bora mountains? As a matter of fact, wasn’t that the purpose for going to Afghanistan? To kill or capture those responsible for September 11th?
Clinton being offered Bin Laden…Only a couple of right wing dudes have claimed this. There is no collaborating data that I’m aware of. But Hannity continues to bring this up like it was fact.
Missing Bin Laden in Tora Bora is a fact but for some reason Hannity doesn’t seem to want to talk about that.
Again, the R’s are trying to deflect attention away from the real problem. Spying on americans. The War in Iraq is still not going as we had hoped.
I miss the fact that the 9/11 commission completely debunked the theory that the Sudanese offered Osama bin Laden to us. This is from the 9/11 commission’s staff statement number 5 –
These contacts with Sudan, which went on for years, have become a source of controversy. Former Sudanese officials claim that Sudan offered to expel Bin Ladin to
the United States. Clinton administration officials deny ever receiving such an offer. We have not found any reliable evidence to support the Sudanese claim.
Sudan did offer to expel Bin Ladin to Saudi Arabia and asked the Saudis to pardon him. U.S. officials became aware of these secret discussions, certainly by March 1996. The evidence suggests that the Saudi government wanted Bin Ladin expelled from Sudan, but would not agree to pardon him. The Saudis did not want Bin Ladin back in their country at all.
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again, Hannity plays fast and loose with the truth.