Another Clinton failure?
cbsnews.com
............There was nothing left to do but pull the trigger on the plan. In place, ready to attack, were 60 SEALs assigned to board the ship in secret. Dozens of Marine commandos, and hundreds of others were ready to search the ship from stem to stern.
Then with one word from Washington, all the planning, all the adrenaline, and all the hope… for thousands of American sailors and Marines, came crashing down.
The mission was called off.
Says Short: “I was just stunned. I mean disbelief. I mean it had been almost 48 hours at that point. And none of us had slept, and at the end of that, they tell you that it’s off, not standby, not be prepared, to just forget about it.”
“The explanation that I recall was they couldn’t verify that the target was still on board the vessel,” says Garrett. Garrett believed that.
For some of the men, that explanation wasn’t enough. For years, they blamed President Clinton for not going through with the mission. |
