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

To: greenspirit who wrote (21391)	12/17/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

>>> It's comical in the extreme to see the same party who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into supporting the gulf war, to now be the ones pounding the war drums over an inspection policy not working. :-) <<< The gulf war was originally started the year before an election, after many years of delay and Republican support of Hussein. In spite of what many saw as suspicious timing, and in spite of widespread predictions that it would guarantee his reelection, the Democrats backed Bush up. This is not a Grenada show invasion, nor a weapons test like Panama. Of course there will be a show, and weapons will get tested, but we have a serious problem with Hussein. Most of that problem would not have happened without years of Republican - backed subsidization and European and Russian profiteering: Selling him his planes, his tanks, his nuclear trigger parts, his chemical equipment. So goes Realpolitik. Without that a lot a kids would be alive today. However, it is now time to do something about it. It's too bad the Republican administration didn't finish the job when we could have done it easily. At that time, 1991, they had Democratic support for that, and then and after the war Bush had his 71% favorable rating. But then almost every foreign policy crisis Clinton has had to deal with was left on his plate by Bush - Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq, North Korea, you name it. Considering the petty old gang of Bush's even took the White House telephone books with them when they left, I think he has done a very good job indeed. As history will judge.