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Politics : The 2004 Bigmouth Election Challenge

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To: American Spirit who wrote (328)6/10/2004 11:23:28 PM
From: Lazarus_Long of 588
 
making terrorism a priority

First WTC bombing
February
A terrorist bomb explodes at the World Trade Center in New York on February 26, killing six people, injuring more than 1,000 others, and causing more than $500 million in damage.


Gee, Waco might fit in there as another failure.
April
The Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, burns on April 19 after a 51-day standoff between the FBI and the religious sect, killing about 80 of the sect members.


Want a few other triumphs?

Hillary's health care reform

Clinton administration fires several longtime employees of the White House travel office. Five workers are reinstated on May 25 amid claims they were removed so Clinton friends and relatives could get a share of the White House travel business.
cnn.com

July 20
Deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, a longtime friend of the Clintons, is found dead at Fort Marcy Park in suburban Washington. Foster's death is later ruled a suicide.


September 13
As Clinton looks on, Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shake hands at a ceremony on the White House lawn, symbolizing the accord their negotiators had signed minutes before that will take the first steps toward Palestinian self-rule in lands both sides claim as their own.

Was that that "almost solving the Israeli problem" you mentioned?

"Kosovo without a single US casualty"
October 7
Clinton orders military reinforcements to Somalia after an attack on U.N. peacekeeping troops leaves 18 U.S. soldiers dead. Nearly all U.S. forces are withdrawn from Somalia over the next six months.


That was just 1993. Should I keep going?
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