I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I want to clear up some misconceptions above.

Clinton sent cruise missles into Iraq on two occasions--once for the attempted assasination of papa bush, taking out the Intelligence Agency, and the second time in retaliation for Saddam's attack of the Kurds. That strike destroyed weapons factories, and would have prevented Iraq #2 if the bush administration would have allowed the weapons inpectors to stay in country and prove that Saddam's weapons capabilities had been destroyed, thus proving no threat to the U.S.

The U.S. could have killed bin Laden on at least two separate occasions using Predator UAVs equipped with missles, but the Pentagon and CIA were fighting over who got to control the Predators, so it didn't happen. Clinton couldn't get Pakistan to arrest him, and our laws prevented us from assasinating him, anyway. Clinton was already up to his arse in the Lewinski thing and didn't need to give the R's anymore fuel for their fire. Remember at that time bin Laden was only suspected of being behind the first World Trade Center bombing, but it wasn't proven.