If it starts to look bleak for Gore, who will Clinton bomb?

TheFreak,

Apparently the president just can't do his job in the six months before an election, ehh? Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. You obviously would be questioning the inhumanity of Clinton's administration if/when these same people were freezing to death later this winter.

Remind me, what exactly did Iraq do to warrant the last bombing that I guess you're referring to? Start turning on their SAM radars onto American pilots in the no fly zone? If he hadn't acted you'd be calling for his head b/c of his inaction. His foreign policy would have been horrible, yadda yadda yadda.

Give it a break.

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come on Simone, let's talk about your but."

 

I have a hard time believing that Clinton's cruise missile strikes on the "terrorists" in Sudan was anything but politically-motivated. It was the day of Lewinsky's testimony...no terrorists were killed...in fact, only custodians in the building were killed...and it turned out the building was a pharmaceutical lab that supplied necessary drugs to the impoverished people of Sudan...the decision to strike was entirely Clinton's, against the advice of his military consultants...and the Pentagon and CIA have since said that there was absolutely no terrorist activity or link to that building.

My new theory is Osama Bin Laden is not even a real person but a convenient "bad guy." Of course, I'm just joking...but does anyone else remember how that day was supposed to mark the beginning of a new "war" on terrorism? We were going to take it to them!!! yeah...maybe not.

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MadMax, is that true? I remember some sketchy information immediately after the bombing. I wouldn't doubt that the president would want to let off some steam, but I would hope that it would be on a logical target...

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"Everyone I know has a big but...

come on Simone, let's talk about your but."

 

I haven't had the chance to go through these, but they look like some good articles with links on the Embassy bombings and the retaliation.

From PBS's Frontline: The Embassy Bombings and US Retaliation http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/bombings/

From The International New York Times, On The Web: Decision to Strike Factory in Sudan Based Partly on Surmise http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/092198attack-sudan.html?Partner=PBS&RefId=Eutttn-uFBqv



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Stay Cool...

 

Here's another one from Christopher Hitchens in Salon titled "They bomb pharmacies, don't they? www.salon.com/news/1998/09/23news.html

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Not the salon, grummett.... I don't want to read Will's biased bs (j/k Will).

dc sports: That PBS article points out (I'll leave it to others to drill down through each of those links ) at the end that Sandy Berger, the NSA (former?) said categorically that

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Bush just mentioned TAAS (sp?) and Gore licked his lips. I think I saw some canines.
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anyway Berger said that they knew for a fact that there were weapons in that pharmacy. Isn't it the NSA's resonsibility to inform the president? Does anyone here think that the National Security Advisor would lie for b.j. reasons? What a dark world for those that do. No wonder you guys are so pi@@ed.

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"Everyone I know has a big but...

come on Simone, let's talk about your but."