Rebutting a meme

"MadTom comments on yesterday's post:

Remind me again, at the time that OBL was in Sudan, what did we know he had done? And isn't the story that the Clinton administration got Sudan to move against OBL and break up his venture, forcing OBL to move leaving behind most of the investment OBL had made in Sudan, farms and maybe an airport or something?

That's just ridiculous. At the time OBL was in Sudan, we obviously knew enough about him that he attracted the personal interest of the President of the United States. OBL was not just some random haji on the street by that time. Indeed, Clinton himself claimed that at that time, "a lot of people were claiming I was too obsessed with Bin Ladin and Al Qaeda.""
CounterColumn

The meme your talking about is mostly republicans desperate to bring Clinton back to the front page.

But lets just take one thing at a time. You said:

" AFTER Clinton turned down the chance to have him handed over to us."

You accept that meme with out a thought. Sure the Sudanese were going to "just hand him over".

"The story is not that we stripped him of his financial assets,"

Never said that, I actually said :

"administration got Sudan to move against OBL"

"despite Clinton's dereliction "

Bush did a much better job at Tora Tora I'm sure.