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To: i-node who wrote (407715)	8/18/2008 3:14:31 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572503

"To be frank, "your guys" have wrecked foreign policy every time they've had a chance at it and our guys have had to clean it up one time after another." I know your guys keep repeating this. Not that it actually has any basis in reality, but you never let that stop you. "Just like Bush getting stuck with Bin Laden because Clinton let him go on multiple occasions" Case in point. When questioned, you bring up that TV show which portrayed events that never happened. "Clinton blowing it in Somalia." That he did. Now, how did we get into Somalia in the first place? Clinton made the error of trying to win something that we shouldn't have done in the first place. "Or Carter not having the ability to confront Iran." What would you have done? "But Bush defeated Saddam once, Bush (his son) has defeated him again and brought him to justice." Sigh. Iraq was not a military problem. Never was. There was little question that our forces would roll over his. Now true, some of the mainly right wing talking heads warned how dangerous Saddam's forces were in the runup to Gulf War I, those with actual knowledge of those armies didn't see it as a problem. To his credit, Bush I was not interested in taking out Baghdad. We know now exactly why. But, Bush I was, and is not, a neo.