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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (11981)9/24/2004 12:12:49 PM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (1) of 27181
 
Exactly what more could Clinton have done? As you know, Clinton attacked bin Laden's camps more than once and missed him. Special Forces were on alert to move if and when bin Laden was located.

As it was, the Republicans in Congress were insinuating that the attacks against bin Laden's camps were intended more to deflect attention from Clinton's impeachment trial than any national security considerations. Remember "Wag the Dog"? (Now, however, you say security is more important than domestic issues...)

During Clinton's administration the genocidal Milosovic was removed from power and the tinderbox Balkans stabilized without the loss of a single American soldier. Bush, by the way, criticized "nation building" during his campaign and promised to bring the peacekeeping soldiers home - he hasn't done that yet, so he must have flip-flopped or realized the soldiers were indeed necessary.

Clinton also managed to keep Saddam in a box for eight years and WMD out of his hands without any casualties or great expenditures.

Bush's "strident, forceful action" was, unfortunately, against the wrong enemy. Had he put 50,000 soldiers into Tota Bora instead of relying on a mercenary army sympathetic to bin Laden to capture him... only to have him slip away... America would be far safer. Instead, bin Laden continues his plots and we have 150,000 soldiers tied down "nation building" in Iraq.
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