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


To: Neocon who wrote (429042)7/18/2003 2:33:41 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769669
 
The "aspirin factory" was Osama's "chemical weapons" factory. At least that's what the CIA told Clinton. Bush would have bombed it too, especially since he obviuosly jumps the gun on intelligence. As did CLinton in this case.

"On August 20, 1998, President Clinton ordered the bombing of a factory in Khartoum, Sudan. The factory, the United States alleged, was making chemical weapons. Even more evil: it was linked to Osama bin Laden.

Of course, then the story unravelled. The factory was making aspirin, not weapons. And the US government quickly abandoned their claims that this dangerous aspirin-making was economically connected to Osama bin Laden."

* Just goes to show we need better and more reliable intelligence before we wage attacks or start wars. But this isn't about Clinton anymore, it's about Bush. Please return to the 21st century.