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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
At least Clinton tried, over the opposition of Republicans like you who cared more about the hummer he was getting from Monica Lewinski than about the threat to country presented by Al Qaeda. When Clinton tried to take out bin Laden, you and the other armchair warriors complained that he did anything at all to divert attention from the Starr Blowjob Saga, not that he didn't invade Afghanistan.
And maybe if Bush hadn't ignored what his top counter-terrorism official was telling him to do, we would have never seen 9/11.
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And Iraq:
"DID CLINTON LIE OR ABUSE POWER IN ORCHESTRATING RATIONALE FOR PRE-IMPEACHMENT WAR?
The Washington Times (12/18/98, p. 1) reports "The White House orchestrated a plan to provoke Saddam Hussein into defying United Nations weapons inspectors so President Clinton could justify air strikes, former and current government officials charge.
"Scott Ritter, a former U.N. inspector who resigned this summer, said yesterday the U.N. Special Commission (Unscom) team led by Richard Butler deliberately chose sites it knew would provoke Iraqi defiance at the White House's urging.
"Mr. Ritter also said Mr. Butler, executive chairman of the Unscom, conferred with the Clinton administration's national security staff on how to write his report of noncompliance before submitting it to the U.N. Security Council Tuesday night.
"The former inspector said the White House wanted to ensure the report contained sufficiently tough language on which to justify its decision to bomb Iraq.
"I'm telling you this was a preordained conclusion. This inspection was a total setup by the United States, Mr. Ritter said. The U.S. was pressing [the U.N.] to carry out this test. The test was very provocative. They were designed to elicit Iraqi defiance...."
TIMING IS EVERYTHING
"The White House knew by Dec. 9, when U.N. inspectors were in Baghdad, that the House had planned to debate impeachment as early as Wednesday, Dec. 16. Air strikes began that day."
EVIDENCE CONFIRMS THAT CLINTON'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL ATTACK ON IRAQ WAS A LONG-PLANNED POLITICAL PLOY
Robert Novak points out that (The Washington Post, 12/21/98, p. A29) "As Clinton took Palestinian applause in Gaza last Monday [December 14], secret plans were underway for an air strike coinciding with the House impeachment vote. The president had time to consult with Congress and the U.N. Security Council but took no step that might stay his hand.
"As whenever a president pulls the trigger, Clinton's top national security advisers supported him. But majors and lieutenant colonels at the Pentagon, whose staff work undergirds any military intervention, are, in the words of a senior officer, 200 percent opposed. They disagree fundamentally. They know the attack on Iraq was planned long before Butler's report and consider it politically motivated.""
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