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How 9-11 happened
Ann Coulter 


April 1, 2004 



We don't need a "commission" to find out how 9-11 happened.  The truth
is in the timeline: 


PRESIDENT CARTER, DEMOCRAT 


In 1979, President Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah of Iran to be deposed
by a mob of Islamic fanatics.  A few months later, Muslims stormed the
U.S. Embassy in Iran and took American Embassy staff hostage. 


Carter retaliated by canceling Iranian visas.  He eventually ordered a
disastrous and humiliating rescue attempt, crashing helicopters in the
desert. 


PRESIDENT REAGAN, REPUBLICAN 


The day of Reagan's inauguration, the hostages were released. 


In 1982, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed by Muslim extremists. 


President Reagan sent U.S. Marines to Beirut. 


In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut were blown up by Muslim
extremists. 


Reagan said the U.S. would not surrender, but Democrats threw a hissy
fit, introducing a resolution demanding that our troops be withdrawn.
Reagan caved in to Democrat caterwauling in an election year and
withdrew our troops - bombing Syrian-controlled areas on the way out.
Democrats complained about that, too. 


In 1985, an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was seized and a
69-year-old American was shot and thrown overboard by Muslim extremists.



Reagan ordered a heart-stopping mission to capture the hijackers after
"the allies" promised them safe passage.  In a daring operation,
American fighter pilots captured the hijackers and turned them over to
the Italians - who then released them to safe harbor in Iraq. 


On April 5, 1986, a West Berlin discotheque frequented by U.S.
servicemen was bombed by Muslim extremists from the Libyan Embassy in
East Berlin, killing an American. 


Ten days later, Reagan bombed Libya, despite our dear ally France
refusing the use of their airspace.  Americans bombed Gadhafi's
residence, killing his daughter, and dropped a bomb on the French
Embassy "by mistake." 


Reagan also stoked a long, bloody war between heinous regimes in Iran
and Iraq.  All this was while winning a final victory over Soviet
totalitarianism. 


PRESIDENT BUSH I, MODERATE REPUBLICAN 


In December 1988, a passenger jet, Pan Am Flight 103, was bombed over
Lockerbie, Scotland, by Muslim extremists. 


President-elect George Bush claimed he would continue Reagan's policy of
retaliating against terrorism, but did not.  Without Reagan to gin her
up, even Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher went wobbly, saying there
would be no revenge for the bombing. 


In 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. 


In early 1991, Bush went to war with Iraq.  A majority of Democrats
opposed the war, and later complained that Bush didn't "finish off the
job" with Saddam. 


PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, DEMOCRAT 


In February 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed by Muslim fanatics,
killing five people and injuring hundreds. 


Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. 


In October 1993, 18 American troops were killed in a savage firefight in
Somalia.  The body of one American was dragged through the streets of
Mogadishu as the Somalian hordes cheered. 


Clinton responded by calling off the hunt for Mohammed Farrah Aidid and
ordering our troops home.  Osama bin Laden later told ABC News: "The
youth ... realized more than before that the American soldier was a
paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat." 


In November 1995, five Americans were killed and 30 wounded by a car
bomb in Saudi Arabia set by Muslim extremists. 


Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. 


In June 1996, a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia was
bombed by Muslim extremists. 


Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. 


Months later, Saddam attacked the Kurdish-controlled city of Erbil. 


Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, lobbed some bombs into Iraq hundreds of
miles from Saddam's forces. 


In November 1997, Iraq refused to allow U.N. weapons inspections to do
their jobs and threatened to shoot down a U.S. U-2 spy plane. 


Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. 


In February 1998, Clinton threatened to bomb Iraq, but called it off
when the United Nations said no. 


On Aug. 7, 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by
Muslim extremists. 


Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. 


On Aug. 20, Monica Lewinsky appeared for the second time to testify
before the grand jury. 


Clinton responded by bombing Afghanistan and Sudan, severely damaging a
camel and an aspirin factory. 


On Dec. 16, the House of Representatives prepared to impeach Clinton the
next day. 


Clinton retaliated by ordering major air strikes against Iraq, described
by the New York Times as "by far the largest military action in Iraq
since the end of the Gulf War in 1991." 


The only time Clinton decided to go to war with anyone in the vicinity
of Muslim fanatics was in 1999 - when Clinton attacked Serbians who were
fighting Islamic fanatics. 


In October 2000, our warship, the USS Cole, was attacked by Muslim
extremists. 


Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. 


PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, REPUBLICAN 


Bush came into office telling his national security adviser, Condoleezza
Rice, he was "tired of swatting flies" - he wanted to eliminate
al-Qaida. 


On Sept. 11, 2001, when Bush had been in office for barely seven months,
3,000 Americans were murdered in a savage terrorist attack on U.S. soil
by Muslim extremists. 


Since then, Bush has won two wars against countries that harbored Muslim
fanatics, captured Saddam Hussein, immobilized Osama bin Laden,
destroyed al-Qaida's base, and begun to create the only functioning
democracy in the Middle East other than Israel.  Democrats opposed it
all - except their phony support for war with Afghanistan, which they
immediately complained about and said would be a Vietnam quagmire.  And
now they claim to be outraged that in the months before 9-11, Bush did
not do everything Democrats opposed doing after 9-11. 


What a surprise.

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