HOW 9/11 HAPPENED

HOW 9/11 HAPPENED

We don’t need a “commission” to find out how 9/11 happened. The truth is in the timeline.

Excerpted from "How to Talk To Liberals," Ann Coulter, 2004

President Carter, Democrat

In 1979, President 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, Lebanon, was bombed by Muslim extremists. President Reagan sent 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would not surrender, but Democrats in Congress through a hissy fit, drafting a resolution demanding that our troops be withdrawn. All seven Democrat presidential candidates called for our troops to be withdrawn. Reagan caved in to Democrat caterwauling in an election year and withdrew our troops – bombing Syrian-controlled areas on the way out.

In 1985, an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was seized and a sixty-nine-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. The daring plan to intercept the hijackers’ flight was conceived by Oliver North and executed by Admiral Frank Kelso. Kelso’s boys 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 Qaddafi’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 Bush claimed he would continue Reagan’s policy of retaliating against terrorism, but did not. Without Reagan to gin her up, even British 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 the way liberal like – with approval from the UN and “the allies.” Still a majority of Democrats opposed the war. They demanded our troops stop at Baghdad, but then after 9/11, absurdly complained that Bush did not “finish the job” with Saddam.

President Clinton, Democrat

In February 1993, The World Trade Center was bombed by Muslim extremists, killing five people and injuring hundreds. Clinton did nothing.

In October 1993, eighteen American troops were killed in a savage firefight in Somalia. Clinton responded by 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 thirty wounded by a car bomb in Saudi Arabia by Muslim extremists. Clinton did nothing.

In June 1996, a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia was bombed by Muslim extremists. Clinton did nothing. Months later Saddam attacked the Kurdish-controlled city of Erbil. Clinton lobbed some bombs into Iraq, hundreds of miles from Saddam’s forces.

In November 1997, Iraq refused to allow UN weapons inspectors to do their jobs and threatened to shoot down a U.S. U-2 spy plane. Clinton did nothing.

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

On August 7, 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim extremists. Clinton did nothing.

On August 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 December 16, the House of Representatives prepared to impeach Clinton the next day. Clinton retaliated by ordering major air strikes against Iraq in 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 ordered attacks on Serbians who were fighting against Muslim fanatics.

In October 2000, our warship the USS Cole was attacked by Muslim extremists. Clinton did nothing.

President George W. Bush, Republican

Bush came into office telling his national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, he was “tired of swatting at flies” – he wanted to eliminate al Qaeda.

On September 11, 2001, after Bush had been in office for seven months, three thousand Americans were murdered in a savage terrorist attack on U.S. soil by Muslim extremists.

Since then Bush has won wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, captured Saddam Hussein, immobilized Osama bin Laden, destroyed al Qaeda’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. Now they claim to be outraged that in the months following 9/11 Bush did not do everything Democrats opposed doing after 9/11.

This Is War.

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