[coconutt2000]

Gotta be a lie.

#1 - Clinton doesn't have the guts to attack anything or anybody that might hit back.
#2 - Clinton was good friends with the Chinese.


Either that, or Clinton was being his incompetent self and he ok'd the bombing without even knowing what the target was. Not too unusual considering his penchant for bombing empty enemy camps and civilian factories.

[Sacajaweau]

Don't kid yourself. Several people were killed in the embassy bombing. We don't know who but I'm betting that one of them was a Clinton collaborator "who knew too much". Just another Foster moment.

[cgbg]

Clinton was so distracted with women and drugs (and totally uninterested in foreign policy) that he probably OKed the strike without fully understanding what he was doing.

His MO was to do stupid things and then lie about them later.

This episode seems to fit that template.

The reason bombing embassies is a bad idea is if you do it to them you are giving cart blanche for them to do it to you. The State Department types take a dim view of such a policy. :-)

Doing it then claiming it was an accident could cause an epidemic of "accidents" to our embassies.