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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (21006)	12/17/1998 10:47:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Respond to of 67261

Les, Got to correct you for once. It was George Bush who put U.S. forces on the ground in Somalia. However, it was Bubba Clinton who gave the Army Rangers the orders to capture warlord Adid which resulted in 18 dead rangers, 100 wounded, and two downed helicopters (plus about 1,000 dead Somalis). Bill Clinton got lucky there. Nobody ever held him to account over our stupid policy of going from a humanitarian mission of feeding the starving, to a military mission of trying to capture a warlord. Just one more of the enumerable times Bill Clinton has slicked his way out of being held to account for his pathetic foreign policy. -John

To: Les H who wrote (21006)	12/17/1998 10:48:00 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Clinton's operation has no chance of working. He's only using one-tenth the force that the Gulf War force used and many of the military targets are off-limits. Plus, we have practically given ourselves a deadline. The reason Clinton gave for going now was we wanted to do it before Ramadan. Well Ramadan begins Monday. I guess we have to be done by then if we are so concerned about violating the Muslim holy month. By the way, Christians won't be too happy to be at war during Christman either. Or else he was lying.

To: Les H who wrote (21006)	12/17/1998 9:46:00 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<< Clinton's operation has no chance of working. He's only using one-tenth the force that the Gulf War force used and many of the military targets are off-limits. >> That means Clinton will look great if this operation turns out to be an overwhelming success. They are really bombing the shit out of Iraq. Heres hoping that they hit their targets, and that their targets are the right ones. Plus, you are saying that many of the military targets are off-limits. I guess you have been thoroughly briefed at the Pentagon, or perhaps you are believing everything you hear! <g> (What an idiot! <g>) It sounds like you are hoping for failure. American men and women are in harms way and you sound like you are hoping for failure! That's disgusting! << You're the one who expressed the opinion about using the attack to call off the impeachment. >> You are a liar. I was happy that the impeachment hearings were postponed because I thought that would be best for our Country. I never even suggested that the attack was used to call off the impeachment. Those were your lying words << As for Vietnam, if you're going to complain about that. Complain about Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and a number of other nation-building military campaigns under Clinton. >> Are you that stupid not to realize that the campaign in Haiti and Bosnia were highly successful and saved and are saving countless lives? I guess the pictures, of Bosnia, on the news each night showing children being killed turned you on. What a jerk! As far as Somalia goes, my dear mentally challenged friend, Bush putting our forces in Somalia right before Clinton was to take office was an incredibly poor decision and I question his reasons for putting our service men and women in harms way right after he was thrown out of office. It almost seemed to be in revenge for the people voting him out of office.