Holy crap...?

Question

I just had an admission from a republican John W. who said that Clinton was aware of Al Qaeda, and had taken steps to eliminate Al Qaeda before Bush came to office doubt me look at what he wrote.
I was serving my country in the Army. Where were you? That was during the time of Kosovo and Bosnia. Remember those two staged photo-ops for Clinton? How about the air-strikes on Iraq that President Clinton authorized? How about the bombing of the asprin factory? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/operation_i...
Where were the you?

Take a look at the link, it is an Al Qaeda base, thanks John

Sorry bro.

Answer 1

Fascist blames Clinton for Bush's failures.

Clinton did a surgical strike against Iraq and we didn't invade or lose a single person, went after military targets, put the repubs complained, saying he didn't have the authority and that Iraq wasn't a threat, which it s certainly wasn't after Desert Fox!!

Clinton on Trial
From: David Plotz
Friday, Dec. 18, 1998, at 6:30 PM ET
Suspicious Minds

The Republicans wag the fox.

The most impressive sophistry of Wednesday comes courtesy of House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas. As journalists gather outside the House Republicans' private caucus, Armey's press secretary distributes a short press release. (The media mob is so frenzied that another reporter literally tries to tear a copy out of my hands.)

The release reads, "The suspicion that some people have about the president's motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment. ... These doubts may or may not be warranted ... but the fact that some Americans are expressing these doubts shows that the president is losing his ability to lead."

My thoughts are mostly on the hijacking of constitutional government in America. The right-wing threat that has unbalanced even the reasonable members of the Republican Party. The lack of any credible congressional or media figures now that they have all given in to their hate-Clinton frenzy, with complete indifference to the sentiments of normal people outside the Beltway. The impossibility of protest when elected officials and media both ignore what people feel and say, and, worse, distort it; the failure of the print media to cover the various marches the other day; or its failure to raise the reasonable questions about hypocrisy (i.e. Henry Hyde's past) that were apparent to everyone. And the fact that we can't impeach or otherwise get rid of irresponsible pundits. If only we could impeach George Will and Cokie Roberts!

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Fran Lebowitz, author

Absolutely, the bombings were an attempt to deflect attention from impeachment. Clinton is hardly a subtle man -- even his most ardent supporters cannot accuse him of subtlety, and certainly not of irony. He is irony-free. Obviously, I'm not a fan of Saddam Hussein but it's interesting to me how he's been singled out. Unfortunately, the world is filled with people in power who are equally as bad. It's not that I'm in favor of Saddam, but I think he should be placed in like company because I think it makes everyone else -- all these other horrendous people -- seem like nothing compared to him. Certainly what's going on in Bosnia cannot be better than what's going on in Iraq. Certainly Gadhaffi is not Adlai Stevenson. Singling Saddam out seems almost arbitrary to me. There's something very false, very tinny about the whole thing. I watched the bombings on TV last night -- the green glow of the bombs, which is nice and arty but you can't really see anything -- and it seemed very unreal. When we announce a bombing, it doesn't seem like a real war except that real people get really killed.

I'm in favor of nothing. I hate all these people. I think the Congress is a disgrace, I think the president is a disgrace. It's embarrassing to be a human being in this era. I feel disgraced by my fellow man -- all of them. Especially my fellow citizens, because they've been convinced to become consumers instead of citizens. They go around interviewing dozens of idiots who talk about how great the economy is, which it is for about 12 people, by the way. They interview 8-year-olds! The economy is incredibly great if you happen to own an enormous company or if you have tons of capital in the stock market".

Republicons talk oit of both sides of their mouths depending on convenience.

Answer 2

Of course he ordered airstrikes, he ordered more seperate military actions than any President in history, including this one (I was in the military during that time as well). The issue was why he didn't go into Afghanistan, Chad, or Sudan. The US policy, and I don't particularly blame Pres Clinton for this, was to respond to terrorist attacks with an attack of only equal force & meant only to supress them temporarily. Kobar, the embassies, & the Cole each rose to the level at which he should have put special operations troops in to cut the head & guts out of that operation though.

The point now is that al Qaeda isn't the only enemy. If you destroy them for all time, other Islamic extremist groups exist that will attack us down the road. The goal in this war is to defeat all militant Islamic Extremeism everywhere, related to al Qaeda or not, and to put that culture on a track to join the moden peaceful world. That's a much bigger more costly harder job than simple revenge or supression. But, success is the only thing that will remove that evil & the threat of ever increasingly damaging attacks on the US and other free peoples in the future. De Oppresso Libre

Answer 3

Um...It's John J and I'm a Libertarian. You'll also note, if you bother to read it, that the article indicates that we, the U.S. (president at the time was Bill Clinton) alleged ties between bin Ladin and Iraq and that Bin Ladin vowed continued attacks on the U.S. Those attacks did continue as we all know. So, was President Clinton part of the problem, or part of the solution? Perhaps it took someone who was more interested in protecting our country's safety than distracting attention from his diddling of interns to finally make a meaningful effort to end the terrorist attacks.

Answer 4

Bill Clinton is an intelligent man. He knew what was going on the whole time with al-Qaeda. It is in the ruling classes best interests to keep the fires burning, if you know what i mean.

Answer 5

Yeah!!

Answer 6

thats interesting