Twice as Many Iraqis Died During Clinton Years-

[KCFlyer]

By not taking out Bin Laden when he had him, "LITERALLY", in his sights ! He Pu$$ied out ! :down:

Did Hannity ever tell you the whole story? It's out there...fairly easy to find with a thing called "google".

 

[delldude]

Did Hannity ever tell you the whole story? It's out there...fairly easy to find with a thing called "google".

And now it comes out...KC is a closet listener.....

 

[700IAM]

And now it comes out...KC is a closet listener.....

 

[Cosworth]

By not taking out Bin Laden when he had him, "LITERALLY", in his sights ! He Pu$$ied out ! :down:

Does Reagan share any blame for pissing off OBL when he jerked him around after fighting the Russians?

You also assume that we actually knew where he was. Who knows if the intel was accurate. And if it was so easy, you would have thought we could have found him again in the last 7 years.

Yet all this still has nothing to do with why we invaded Iraq. OBL had nothing to do with Iraq. 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq. If you want to pin 9/11 on Clinton and Reagan fine. Knock your self out. None of this has squat to do with why we are in Iraq.

 

[KCFlyer]

And now it comes out...KC is a closet listener.....

Yes...but I still haven't learned how to handle that bit of vomit in my mouth that comes along with tuning him in.

 

[777 fixer]

Does Reagan share any blame for pissing off OBL when he jerked him around after fighting the Russians?

The Soviets did not pull out the last of theri troops until Febuary of 1989.

 

[delldude]

Bush did this on his own. Clinton never put troops on the ground. Never initiate conflict.

b. Military Action Against Iraq

In June of 1993, while the U.S. Quick Reaction Force and U.N. peacekeepers were bogged down in Somalia and were being subjected to armed attacks by Aidid's militia, President Clinton decided to initiate U.S. military action against Iraq, doing so without consultation with Congress or seeking its endorsement of the particular military action initiated, asserting that he was acting under the authority of various U.N. resolutions and the Persian Gulf Resolution (U.S. Public Law 102-1), the latter being the congressional joint resolution of January 14, 1991, passed by Congress on January 12, signed into law by the President on January 14 (two days before he ordered the launching of Operation Desert Storm), and still in force as American law. On Clinton's orders, U.S. air strikes, aimed at the Iraqi Intelligence Service headquarters in Baghdad, were launched on June 26. In justifying the cruise missile attack, the Clinton Presidency cited evidence that the Iraqi Intelligence Service had instigated and fostered a conspiracy to assassinate former U.S. President George Bush during his visit to Kuwait two months earlier (April 14-16).

In April, the Kuwaiti authorities had uncovered the assassination plot, arresting 14 Iraqi and Kuwaiti nationals for planning to put a 175-pound bomb in a location where it would have exploded and killed Bush as he was being presented an award honoring him as the leader of the Persian Gulf War coalition which drove the Iraqi invaders out of Kuwait. The Kuwaiti authorities immediately informed the U.S. government of the conspiracy and arrests. Receipt of the information was quickly followed by President Clinton's ordering the FBI and CIA to conduct a thorough investigation to find out whether Saddam Hussein had authorized and sponsored the plot. The investigation uncovered convincing evidence of links between the would-be assassins and the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

President Clinton perceived the situation as a major test of his mettle as U.S. Commander- in-Chief and leader of the Western powers. He suddenly abandoned his attempts to send Hussein a conciliatory and somewhat ambiguous message--a message to the effect that he thought Hussein could redeem himself with the U.S.A. and that, if he did so, Clinton would be open to normalization of U.S.-Iraqi relations. On the evening of June 23, when he met with his National Security Adviser and Deputy National Security Adviser, the National Security Council members and General Colin Powell, Clinton was determined to send Hussein a different message, one which, in the words of George Stephanopoulos, the President's Senior Political Adviser, would be "an unambiguous, unapologetic message ... but with weapons, not words." [George Stephanopoulos, ALL TOO HUMAN--A POLITICAL EDUCATION (Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1999), p. 159.]

Those in attendance at the meeting, polled one at a time, unanimously recommended in favor of the President's plan for launching missile trikes against Baghdad. Scheduled for Saturday, June 26, the attack commenced at 4:22 p.m. (EDT), when cruise missiles were launched toward Baghdad from two U.S. Navy vessels positioned in the Persian Gulf--the destroyer USS Peterson and the AEGIS cruiser USS Chancellorville. Once the missiles had landed in Baghdad, President Clinton delivered from the Oval Office a public address announcing the military action he had initiated against Iraq and explaining why he had done so.

You're
right...

The United States launched a second missile strike against Iraq's southern air defenses tonight, just hours after President Clinton vowed that he would make President Saddam Hussein ''pay a price'' for sending his troops into the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning

Looks like Clinton did ,in fact totally initiate things on his own just like Bush did.

 

[KCFlyer]

You're
right...



I love the smell of napalm in the morning

Looks like Clinton did ,in fact totally initiate things on his own just like Bush did.

The difference being - at the time the right claimed it was just a diversionary tactic from the "gate du jour" they were conducting against Clinton.

 

[delldude]

The difference being - at the time the right claimed it was just a diversionary tactic from the "gate du jour" they were conducting against Clinton.

And you are confirming this?

 

[tech2101]

You're
right...



I love the smell of napalm in the morning

Looks like Clinton did ,in fact totally initiate things on his own just like Bush did.

You are correct.

Clinton did execute surgical strikes (tomahawk missles) against the Iraqi Intelligence Service headquarters to retaliate and prevent future assassination attempts of the former President Bush.

The difference being that under Clinton, we did not invade the country and subsequently occupy it under a false pretense.

Good reading here.