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To: Machaon who wrote (11965)	6/15/1999 4:35:00 AM
From: Bob Lao-Tse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

"...George Bush sent our troops to die in Somalia, in the last days of his term, as a punishment to the American people for not reelected(sic) him..." You know, I'm trying to visualize what sort of twisted spiteful world-view one would have to have to even be able to come up with such a scenario, much less to charge someone else with having actually done it... Nope, I just can't do it.

To: Machaon who wrote (11965)	6/15/1999 10:18:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 17770

RE:"President George Bush sent our troops to die in Somalia" You really ARE a sick puppy. If you are an American, I'm sorry to say I am one.

To: Machaon who wrote (11965)	6/15/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Respond to of 17770

Robert, You don't know your history, Bubba! Bush sent the Army Rangers into Somalia to protect human aid workers from being raped and killed by armed gangs. Everything was fine. Clinton took office and then changed the peacekeeping mission to a military one by ordering our troops to capture the warlord Adid and bring him to trial in the US. Adid got wind of this operation (with some help by the Italian peacekeepers I might add) and then laid a trap to kill our troops. The result was 18 dead Army Rangers, 100 wounded, and about 1,000 dead Somalis. Then Clinton pulled us out. The guy is a moron, his foreign policy a farce. -John

To: Machaon who wrote (11965)	6/15/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: Les H	Respond to of 17770

They went there on a humanitarian mission under the UN along with other nations to help in the famine and refugee crisis. One of the other nation's contingents were attacked by Aideed. The U.N., Madeline Albright, Hal Holbrook, and Clinton decided to send the Rangers into hostile territory to capture Aideed. It just goes to show that no matter what one's goals, it's virtually impossible to come off as neutral in a civil war. Just feeding people aids the enemy of one side of the civil war or the other.