>>And here is another; 9/11 did happen on his watch.
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>>Yes, 9/11 occured under Bush.
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>>However, Clinton/Gore did many things in the 90's that arguably made it more difficult for the CIA/FBI.
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>Reagan withdrew from the Lebanon after the beirut bombing. That was a huge boost to the morale of you enemies.

Casper Weinberger tried to get the marines in a better location before the attack occurred. He argued for it continuously. In 2006 when he was interviewd by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, he stated:

"I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission," Caspar Weinberger says in an oral history project capturing the views of former Reagan administration officials.

Recollections of an initial 25 Reagan aides were released this week by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Altogether, scholars interviewed 45 Cabinet members, White House staffers and campaign advisers in a project begun in 2001, when Reagan was secluded with advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. Reagan died in June 2004 at the age of 93.

Transcripts offer largely admiring portraits by Reagan's chief loyalists and Weinberger is no exception, crediting the president with restoring U.S. power and outfoxing the Soviet Union.

But he said one of his greatest regrets was in failing to overcome the arguments that "'Marines don't cut and run,' and 'We can't leave because we're there"' before the devastating suicide attack on the lightly armed force.

"They had no mission but to sit at the airport, which is just like sitting in a bull's-eye," Weinberger said. "I begged the president at least to pull them back and put them back on their transports as a more defensible position."

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