Posted on 08/23/2005 1:14:57 PM PDT by Mia T
Yeah...and that was mostly a UN/US humanitarian aid effort controlled by the US. After Clinton took office he (and the UN) immediately changed the objective from humanitarian to nation-building...with most control handed over to the UN on May 4th, 1993. Butros Gali even began using the US military as a tool to wage a more aggressive campaign against Aidid, whom he never liked.
Ironically, these more aggressive tactics were coming at a time when Clinton was drawing-down American presence and power in the region to not give an impression that we were occupying the nation. As a result, when the US campaign to capture Aidid was finally launched (supposedly without UN knowledge), the soldiers were left defenseless as all the heavy armor and machinery was denied for PR reasons.
Providing general security under the original "Operation Restore Hope" ROE had absolutely nothing to do with trying to apprehend specific people as clinton tried to have our forces do. It was a total change of mission and was totally screwed up.
Is that the same woman who said "You Suck" and was arrested?
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."
These very words were published in a U.K. newspaper at the time it occurred with no mention of the event in any American media.
So Able Danger is fake?
The DNC would love for us to get over it.
Until the left gets over Nixon..
Thank God for the internet and FreeRepublic. Otherwise the "whole" story would be forgotten and left to the MSM to spin.
I would like to but.....
President Bush is fighting a war after fanatics murdered over three thousand Americnas on our home soil, yet he gets excoriated in the MSM becuase some grief-stricken mentally unstable mother thikns we can only fight a war if no one gets hurt.
Clinton presided over military fiascoes, hell, even the some-might-call-it-murder of innocents at Waco, yet the MSM gives him a free pass. Where is the MSM investigation into practices of the Clinton Admin which led to 911? Where is the investigation into Sandy Berger's theft of classified docs, yet they howl over the 'outing' of Valerie Plame? Where are the grieving relatives of those killed at Waco, at Mogadishu, in the Balkans, getting major face-time from the media scum? It just goes on and on...... It's hard to let it go!
Damn, I was just about to ping you (till I saw who posted it). Another outstanding post. Thanks!
Well I am sure that even though GW wasn't in the WH all of this had to be his fault.
God Bless our brave troops! And God bless their loved ones.
Trying to wipe the slate clean of the anti-America demon(strating) he did in a foreign country.
The first of many examples of the MSM agenda!!!
Thanks Mia!!!!!
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That's what I was thinking, the further away his presidency gets the sillier it looks to go on and on about it.
I'll get over Clinton when he's gotten over 20 years in San Quentin.
I remember this story, also. In fact, I thought she was taken away by the Secret Service when it happened. It's amazing how protestors of Clinton were treated compared to those who protest Bush. Heck, just today Bush was again singing the praises of Sheehan's right to protest...while those who did Clinton were often arrested, beat-up or audited by the IRS.
You might find this interesting.
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When three thousand dead Americans who died on 9/11 and our troops killed and wounded in Iraq are avenged, then maybe the klinton era will be excised from our memory.
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