Time Magazine’s ‘Clinton Plan’ Fish

06 Aug, 2002 by John Hawkins

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Time Magazine’s ‘Clinton Plan’ Fish Story: Time Magazine broke a story on August 4th which claimed that the Clinton administration was ready to go to war with Afghanistan and al-Queda over the Oct. 12, 2000 USS Cole bombing. But you see Bush was about to take over and,

“With less than a month left in office, they did not think it appropriate to launch a major initiative against Osama bin Laden. “We would be handing [the Bush Administration] a war when they took office on Jan. 20,” says a former senior Clinton aide. “That wasn’t going to happen.”