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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (29665)	1/25/1999 10:51:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

TigerPaw, The invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1979, caught every body off guard. I still remember picking up the Los Angeles Times and looking at the front page...a photo of Russian Troops standing on the runway of the International Airport in Kabul. I still think Jimmy Carter gets a bum rap for being "weak". It is a known fact that his defense spending appropriations were greater than that of Candidate Ronald Reagan. Furthermore, some of these so called "smart" weapons that all the Liberals gush so much about these days...they were built by the defense industry with Jimmy Carter as the President. I'll list a few right here: The F-117 "stealth" fighter, the Tomahawk cruise missle, the B-1B bomber, F-18 Hornet, the Maverick Missle, the M-1A1 Abrams Tank. Note that all of these weapons were used heavily during the Gulf War. Even the Space Shuttle was built during the Carter Administration. I know that the media painted a picture of these weapons being a product of the Reagan Administration but this simply isn't even true. Jimmy Carter even brought back the "draft", or selective service registration. Jimmy Carter was faced with the horrible task of trying to confront the Soviet Union with a military that was not up to the task. When he tried to rescue the hostages in Iran the mission failed because our capability had simply been reduced to the point where the helicopters were breaking down...the mission was doomed. Compare that with Bill Clinton's mission to capture Somali warlord Adid. Even though Clinton had probably the best military that had ever been created for this job, he simply sent in a bunch of underarmed, ill- equiped Army Rangers to do the job. The result was 18 dead Rangers, 100 wounded, and 1,000 dead Somalis. For some reason, the media never held Clinton responsible for this disasterous mission---and it was Bill Clinton's idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -John