Clinton abandoned the going-to-war idea when Ohio State students shouted down his surrogates (Sandburglar, Albright, et al) live on CNN, on their first leg of a national tour to sell the war. It was learned later that the hand-picked crowd was infiltrated by some rowdies who obtained a single ticket and had it mass produced at a friendly Kinkos.
I watched that too. It was great! Berber and Allbright were caught like a deer in the headlights, and they kept stuttering and stamering with their answers. None on the panel seemed to know or understand what they were talking about. Even to a hand picked crowd. It was just fantastic.
Excellent memory on the shout down of Halfbright, you are soo right about that. It did make a difference in the mind of "live and die by the polls slick willie".
And .. Bubba was afraid of another Somalia disaster. He didn't want anything to do with military action anywhere.