political test

i'm sorry, there is a canadian in the room.


don't know, you'd have to sort through all the other lies to find it somewhere. (needle in a haystack)

 

Bosnia.

 

And lets not forget, Clinton DID NOT go through the UN before going to bosnia or even seek their approval.

 

Same holds true for when he bombed Iraq.

 

...sure he didn't declare war, but it was a unilateral force, NATO, UN and the US. But a real civil war was going on, not a pre-emptive strike....

 

...launch cruise missile at some mud huts.....(once agian bad intelligence, supposed rebel training bases)...

main reason to force Saddam to let weapons inspectors back into the country.

 

And where was the imminent threat to the US? What WMD did they possess? What business did we have interfering in a civil war in a country on the other side of the world which threatened us in no way at all?

Let's use the same criteria here when judging a President's actions.

 

Operation Desert Fox did far more than bomb a few mud huts, it included bombing cities including Bagdad itself. There was a huge uproar at the time over the number of civilians killed in those attacks. If you want to go back and review the actual accounts, all the same reasons and intelligence sources used by G Bush were used back then by Clinton, and many of the same players were involved including Blair. The difference is that there was not the organised outcry from the left that exists today.


Clinton made it a temporary lesson and backed off when token concessions were made by Saddam, which returned us to the status quo. Bush learned a lesson from Clinton's experience.

BTW
You probably have forgotten, but Clinton was accused at the time (and there was good evidence to support the contention) that the decision to bomb Iraq was made before the intelligence report by UNSCOM was released and that Clinton heavily influenced the content of that report when it was being produced to slant it toward providing a reason to bomb Iraq.