usmarine2 wrote:
"Berger ambled down the stairwell and entered the Sit Room. He picked up the phone at one of the busy controller consoles and called the president. Amazingly, President Clinton was not available. Berger tried again and again. Bin Laden was within striking distance. The window of opportunity was closing fast. The plan of attack was set and the Tomahawk crews were ready. For about an hour Berger couldn’t get the commander in chief on the line. Though the president was always accompanied by military aides and the Secret Service, he was somehow unavailable. Berger stalked the Sit Room, anxious and impatient."
Wow. Unavailable for a whole hour. I bet that's never happened to any other president.
usmarine2 wrote:
"This lost bin Laden hit typified the Clinton administration’s ambivalent, indecisive way of dealing with terrorism. Ideologically, the Clinton administration was committed to the idea that most terrorists were misunderstood, had legitimate grievances, and could be appeased, which is why such military action as the administration authorized was so halfhearted, and ineffective, and designed more for “show” than for honestly eliminating a threat."
Whereas Bush's military force approach has worked so well.
usmarine2 wrote:
"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed.
Uh...........which of those happened, exactly?
usmarine2 wrote:
"If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program." - Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff February 17, 1998
You'll note that Saddam got rid of his weapons long before he was invaded. That is: assuming Clinton was right about the weapons existing, non-military options worked (or, perhaps more accurately, those that didn't use direct miltary force).
usmarine2 wrote:
[h]"The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world.
Maybe he was wrong, or lieing.
And I bet he was the first person to accept donations from questionable sources.