Kerry Praises Clinton Security Record

John Kerry has claimed that Bill Clinton made our country safe while President Bush – during his 8 months in office prior to 9-11 – didn’t do enough to stop terrorism.

The fact is Bill Clinton and his top advisors mishandled our national security for eight years, especially regarding terrorism and Iraq.

Expect the same from Kerry.

Bin Laden openly declared war against America on Clinton watch, but this threat was not enough for Clinton to take pre-emptive and protective actions.

Do you remember any homeland defense measures in the 1990s? No you don’t, because the Democrats never took bin Laden’s threat seriously. Do you recall Clinton and Senate liberals like Kerry:

• Making passenger airplanes more secure? Where were those hundreds of new air marshals, secure cockpit doors, new rules on permitted carry-on items?


• Improving airport screening?


• Passing a Patriot Act?


• Creating a Department of Homeland Security?


• Establishing an alert and warning system for the American people?


• Increasing border patrols?


• Knocking down the “firewalls” established by liberals to keep intelligence and law enforcement apart?


• Rapidly expanding funding and training for local authorities so they could learn to handle chemical or biological attacks?


• Requiring background checks for all foreigners applying for flight training in the US?


• Arresting or expelling Arab terrorists raising money here in the US (like the professor at USF)?


• Preparing our national air defenses to handle 9-11-like hijack contingencies; issuing clear policies and guidance?


• Warning countries like Saudi Arabia to crack down vs. terrorists? Both countries took President Bush seriously, having killed or arrested HUNDREDS of Al Qaeda terrorists and jihadists to date.

No, contrary to the latest Kerry lie, Clinton did none of these things even as bin Laden plotted and prepared the 9-11 attacks, even after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, even after the massive attacks against our embassies in Africa, even after three major terror attacks against our US military forces stationed in Saudi Arabia, even after the Millenium bomb plot against Los Angeles was uncovered, and even after bin Laden attacked the USS Cole.

Hey folks. Here’s the facts on Clinton and the Democrats. There were some 929 anti-US terrorist attacks from 1993-2000 that killed 90 American citizens and wounded almost 1,700 others. These figures were published by Clinton’s own State Department!!!! The casualties do not include non-US dead or wounded, such as the 5,400 casualties in the 1998 Africa embassy attacks.

The final report of the commission investigating the October 2000 USS Cole attack found that after eight years under Clinton, the Defense Department had not allocated sufficient resources or intelligence analysis and collection assets in support of combating terrorism.

According to recently published accounts, our single best chance to kill Usama bin Laden before 9-11 was rejected by the Clinton team who feared we might kill some of his hunting companions, a ridiculous collateral damage calculus in light of bin Laden’s attacks on our African embassies just a few months earlier, which caused almost 5,400 Kenyan and Tanzanian civilian casualties!!!!

John Kerry talks of adding two divisions to our Army, but doesn’t want to tell Americans that Bill Clinton cut eight – that’s eight divisions during his watch.

President Bush will continue to provide the kind of stalwart and bold leadership needed to defeat global terrorism. Americans can trust him to do his level best on our behalf. President Bush and his team acted boldly and took all the homeland security measures noted above after 9-11, some of which liberals like Kerry continue to oppose, notably the Patriot Act!

John Kerry? Weak against terrorism. Simple.