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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: H-Man who wrote (122338)	1/17/2001 8:10:57 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

<< No Americans were killed because President Bush Sent them to Somalia. That is fact. The premise of your question is false. >> Poppa Bush sent our troops to Somalia right before he left office. This was not only very irresponsible, but a total misuse of our troops. If Poppa Bush had not sent the troops to Somalia, he would hold no responsibility for their deaths. I will always blame and hold Poppa Bush in contempt for putting our troops in harms way, and for doing it after he lost the election to Clinton. What his motivations were, we can only guess. << When executing the orders of President Bush, the troops were in central and well defended positions. >> They should not have been there in the first place. << More to the point, our neutral stance in the armed conflict did not antagonize the warring parties. >> What garbage! The warring factions did not want us to aid and supply the families of their enemies. It was impossible to be neutral. It was a lawless, criminal and dangerous country. Did you think that the "warring parties" played by the rules of the Marquis of Queensberry? << I notice you have not provided a response as to why Clinton did not pull the troops out. >> The issue, to me, is not how badly Clinton handled Bush's mess, but that Bush created the awful situation in the first place. He invented the Somalia mission, and then walked away, and thus was able to wash his hands of the blood of our troops, as you so believe.

To: H-Man who wrote (122338)	1/17/2001 10:35:55 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

--All of this infuriated Gen. Mohamed Farah Aideed, the warlord whose Somali National Alliance had emerged as the dominant force in Mogadishu. Realizing that the United Nations' peacekeepers would be a far weaker adversary than the U.S. Marines, Aideed immediately began increasing his armed presence in Mogadishu. He also began broadcasting a stream of anti-U.N. invective on Radio Mogadishu, his fury fueled by his antipathy for Egypt, the homeland of U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and a steadfast supporter of Mohamed Siad Barre, the dictator Aideed had helped depose two years earlier. -- so when is it all going to 'stop?' 'they' lie to us, administration after administration. 'they' never tell the real truth of why they are doing any particular thing. andy