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


To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (616003)9/1/2004 2:55:34 PM
From: DOUG H  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
June 21, 1998 - Rocket-propelled grenades explode near the U.S. embassy in Beirut.

June 25, 1996 - A bomb aboard a fuel truck explodes outside a U.S. air force installation in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 19 U.S. military personnel are killed in the Khubar Towers housing facility, and 515 are wounded, including 240 Americans.

Nov. 13, 1995 - A car-bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills seven people, five of them American military and civilian advisers for National Guard training. The "Tigers of the Gulf," "Islamist Movement for Change," and "Fighting Advocates of God" claim responsibility.

And what did Lurch, the man who would be CIC advocate we do in response????????



To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (616003)9/1/2004 2:57:16 PM
From: sea_biscuit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Those events were sporadic. What is happening now is a sustained and frequent as well as escalating violence against Americans and American interests.

It is a safe bet that America is more hated in the ME now than ever before. What else do you expect after invading a regional country on the basis of lies??