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BILL CLINTON'S CINDY SHEEHANS (courtesy Sean Hannity)
Sean Hannity Show-WABC, WorldNetDaily, PBS | 8.23.05 | Mia T (courtesy Sean Hannity)

Posted on 08/23/2005 1:14:57 PM PDT by Mia T

 

BILL CLINTON'S CINDY SHEEHANS (courtesy Sean Hannity)

 

The author also noted that James Smith, a former Ranger captain and father of Cpl. Jamie Smith -- who bled to death after he was shot in the leg during the battle, because he could not be evacuated &endash; returned a letter of condolence from President Clinton. In rejecting it, he sent a letter of his own, blaming Clinton for the Mogadishu debacle.

Also not in the movie was an after-action incident between Clinton and the parents of two Rangers -- MSgt. Gary Gordon, 33, and SFC Randy Shughart, 35 &endash; who were killed in action but posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions.

McKenny said that family members were invited to the White House to receive the medals. Clinton reportedly invited the parents of Gordon and Shughart into the Oval Office for a private meeting.

When he did, "he stuck his hand out to shake the hands of the parents, but Randy Shughart's father refused to take Clinton's hand."

Then, McKenny said, "he looked Clinton in the face, told him he was responsible for his son's death, that it was for no purpose and that he wasn't fit to be president or commander in chief."

Smith, who had his left leg amputated after being wounded in Vietnam in the mid-60s, later said Clinton also didn't take responsibility for the decisions that left the Rangers without heavy armored support.

In a another incident, the author said that weeks later family members of many of the dead were called to Washington, D.C., to testify at congressional hearings into the debacle.

"When Clinton heard they were in town, he called them into his office for a meeting and told them that part of the reason they were dead was their own fault," McKenny said. "He said they may have been responsible for their own deaths because they were 'too aggressive' in Mogadishu."

One other incident that didn't make the movie -- or the American press, McKenny said -- happened after the wounded soldiers were brought back to Walter Reed Army Hospital outside Washington.

"Clinton was advised to go see them, but he didn't want to," McKenny said. "Somewhat reluctantly, he finally did go. When he got there, he offered to have his picture taken with each one of them. At least four turned him down, saying they wouldn't dishonor their dead friends or their uniform by having their pictures taken with him.

Black Hawk Down' doesn't tell whole story
Movie about Somalia military disaster leaves out Clinton episodes
Thursday, January 31, 2002
By Jon Dougherty
a staff reporter and columnist for WorldNetDaily
and author of the special report,
"Election 2000: How the Military Vote Was Suppressed."

 

INTERVIEW Osama bin Laden

(may 1998)

 

In the first part of this interview which occurred in May 1998, a little over two months before the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, Osama bin Laden answers questions posed to him by some of his followers at his mountaintop camp in southern Afghanistan. In the latter part of the interview, ABC reporter John Miller is asking the questions.

 

Describe the situation when your men took down the American forces in Somalia.

 

After our victory in Afghanistan and the defeat of the oppressors who had killed millions of Muslims, the legend about the invincibility of the superpowers vanished. Our boys no longer viewed America as a superpower. So, when they left Afghanistan, they went to Somalia and prepared themselves carefully for a long war. They had thought that the Americans were like the Russians, so they trained and prepared. They were stunned when they discovered how low was the morale of the American soldier. America had entered with 30,000 soldiers in addition to thousands of soldiers from different countries in the world. As I said, our boys were shocked by the low morale of the American soldier and they realized that the American soldier was just a paper tiger. He was unable to endure the strikes that were dealt to his army, so he fled, and America had to stop all its bragging and all that noise it was making in the press after the Gulf War in which it destroyed the infrastructure and the milk and dairy industry that was vital for the infants and the children and the civilians and blew up dams which were necessary for the crops people grew to feed their families. Proud of this destruction, America assumed the titles of world leader and master of the new world order. After a few blows, it forgot all about those titles and rushed out of Somalia in shame and disgrace, dragging the bodies of its soldiers. America stopped calling itself world leader and master of the new world order, and its politicians realized that those titles were too big for them and that they were unworthy of them. I was in Sudan when this happened. I was very happy to learn of that great defeat that America suffered, so was every Muslim....

 

The American people, by and large, do not know the name bin Laden, but they soon likely will. Do you have a message for the American people?

I say to them that they have put themselves at the mercy of a disloyal government, and this is most evident in Clinton's administration....
 
BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE
WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?

by Mia T, 8.18.05


(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
thanx to jla and Wolverine for the audio



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: atta; billclinton; binladen; blackhawkdown; cindysheehan; clinton911; gorelickwall; jamiegorelick; mohamedatta; somalia
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1 posted on 08/23/2005 1:15:23 PM PDT by Mia T
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ping


2 posted on 08/23/2005 1:21:16 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T

It Was George H.W. Bush who first ordered US troops to Somalia in late 1992.


3 posted on 08/23/2005 1:21:16 PM PDT by IronMan04
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To: IronMan04

It was Bill Clinton that turned and ran.


4 posted on 08/23/2005 1:23:49 PM PDT by bmwcyle (We broke Pink's code and found a terrorist message.)
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To: IronMan04

That is true. But it was bill clinton who created the fiasco that bin Laden, himself, said emboldened him.


5 posted on 08/23/2005 1:24:42 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: IronMan04

Bush41 sent them in on a humanitarian mission.


6 posted on 08/23/2005 1:26:42 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: IronMan04

The way I remember it, Clinton was responsible for expanding the mission in Somalia, and it was his White House that insisted on under manning, under equipping, and under armoring the expanded mission.


7 posted on 08/23/2005 1:26:51 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: IronMan04

If I reacall correctly they were there only to assure that food made its way to the starving population (humanitarian). It was Clinton that turned it into a military operation.


8 posted on 08/23/2005 1:26:54 PM PDT by MNlurker
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To: MNlurker

After Aidid (sp?) attacked our troops, murdered our rangers, and slick willie cut and ran from Somalia, blaming the Rangers for being too aggressive......he gave safe plane rides to Aidid to various tribe meetings.


9 posted on 08/23/2005 1:30:28 PM PDT by OldFriend (MERCY TO THE GUILTY IS CRUELTY TO THE INNOCENT ~ Adam Smith)
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To: Mia T
"When Clinton heard they were in town, he called them into his office for a meeting and told them that part of the reason they were dead was their own fault," McKenny said. "He said they may have been responsible for their own deaths because they were 'too aggressive' in Mogadishu."

I am having to take deep breaths right now to try and not scream at my desk.

10 posted on 08/23/2005 1:34:50 PM PDT by eyespysomething (Proudly married to SittinYonder 10 yrs last Friday 8-19-05)
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To: Mia T

Les Aspin as Secretary of Defense...need we say more.


11 posted on 08/23/2005 1:37:10 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: MNlurker
It was a bit more than a Humanitarian effort form Day 1:

Operation Restore Hope

United States President George Bush responded to Security Council resolution 794 (1992) with a decision on 4 December to initiate Operation Restore Hope, under which the United States would assume the unified command of the new operation in accordance with resolution 794(1992). The Secretary-General communicated to President Bush on 8 December his concept of a division of labour between the United Nations and the United States in the following terms: "The United States has undertaken to take the lead in creating the secure environment which is an inescapable condition for the United Nations to provide humanitarian relief and promote national reconciliation and economic reconstruction, objectives which have from the outset been included in the various Security Council resolutions on Somalia."

The first elements of the Unified Task Force (UNITAF) came ashore on the beaches of Mogadishu without opposition on 9 December 1992. On 13 December, United States forces had secured the airfield at Baledogle, and by 16 December they had seized Baidoa. The United States Central Command was following a four-phase programme to realize the objectives of securing major airports and seaports, key installations and food distribution points, and providing open and free passage of relief supplies, with security for convoys and relief organizations and those supplying humanitarian relief.

The number of United States forces were expected to build to approximately 28,000 personnel, to be augmented by some 17,000 UNITAF troops from over 20 countries. In addition to United States forces, UNITAF included military units from Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Zimbabwe.

12 posted on 08/23/2005 1:38:43 PM PDT by IronMan04
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To: Mia T

I remember a story about the women who called out "You killed those boys" to President Clinton as he walked by....and was later audited by the IRS.

Maybe someone has the details.


13 posted on 08/23/2005 1:39:00 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: silverleaf

He was the worst....until Bill (RINO) Cohen came along.


14 posted on 08/23/2005 1:39:40 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Liberals preach comity and practice calumny.)
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To: Mia T

Pulling out of Somalia set the precedence for the terrorists. Give America a bloody nose and we leave.


15 posted on 08/23/2005 1:41:54 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: coconutt2000; IronMan04
It was Clinton who expanded the mission to go after Aidid, yet refused to provide the tools (armor and air support) to get the job done. He thought that would appear 'too aggressive'! As*h*le! In eight years of Clinton Administration, the US military was deployed forty-four times around the world, compared with only eight foreign deployments in the previous post-WWII admins. And we STILL have troops in the Balkans and apparently they will be there forever, despite Clinton's claim that they would be home by Christmas when they were originally deployed. And his little air war in the Balkans was never even authorized by Congress!!!!
16 posted on 08/23/2005 1:42:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: OldFriend

What page was that on in his $10 million roll of toilet paper?


17 posted on 08/23/2005 1:42:57 PM PDT by Dahoser (The UN makes Mos Eisley Spaceport look like a clean room.)
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To: silverleaf

At least Aspin had the decency to resign after the Mogadishu fiasco.


18 posted on 08/23/2005 1:43:21 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Mia T

Can we get over Clinton already?


19 posted on 08/23/2005 1:43:42 PM PDT by Crackingham
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To: IronMan04

And it was bill clinton who changed the rules of engagement and ordered our Rangers into a dangerous situation with out any support. Clinton lied and 3020 americans died.


20 posted on 08/23/2005 1:44:33 PM PDT by partyrepub
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