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TERROR'S NEW HOMELAND
NY Post ^ | May 31, 2006 | Ralph Peters

Posted on 05/31/2006 10:19:17 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

May 31, 2006 -- THIRTEEN years ago, our troops won a lopsided battlefield victory in Mogadishu. President Clinton declared defeat and pulled out. We've been paying the price in terror ever since - and it might be about to soar.

When it comes to strategy and military affairs, folk wisdom is worth a century of scribbling theorists. Your father could have told you how to handle the Mogadishu warlords: "If you start something, son, finish it."

We were close to finishing it. And a cowardly president quit.

Osama bin Laden repeatedly cited the pullout from Somalia as evidence that Americans were weak and wouldn't fight. Our rewards for quitting were the attacks on our troops housed in the Saudi Khobar Towers complex and on our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya - next door to Somalia - followed by the USS Cole bombing.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; blackhawkdown; clinton; islamists; mogadishu; peters; somalia; terrorism
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Viewing "Black Hawk Down" again, recently, is a powerful reminder of the ineptitude of the Clinton White House.
1 posted on 05/31/2006 10:19:19 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

bombs


2 posted on 05/31/2006 10:21:23 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi

you still see movement? more bombs...


3 posted on 05/31/2006 10:24:04 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

It seems all Bush has done these past years is pick up after Clinton's 8 year train wreck.


4 posted on 05/31/2006 10:31:25 PM PDT by SoCalPol (.We Need a Border Fence Now.)
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To: All
ON THE NET...

INTELLIGENCE-SUMMIT.blogspot.com (AKI): Mogadishu - "SOMALIA: AL-QAEDA RECRUITING IN MOGADISHU, REPORT SAYS" (May 29, 2006)

TRAVEL.STATE.GOV - Consular Information Sheet: "SOMALIA"

5 posted on 05/31/2006 10:36:26 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
And don't forget that "Cut & Run" Murtha was urging us to flee after Blackhawk Down in Mogadishu Cut & Run

Now I can understand that his personal experience in war was so horrible that he does not wish any young man to go through it again. But as a senior member of the Armed Services Comittee, what battle is he willing to engage in, ever?

If his experience was so horrible, is it right to trumpet his military record for elections?

6 posted on 05/31/2006 11:34:03 PM PDT by Roy Tucker
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To: Cindy

We were fighting Al Qaeda in Mogadishu/Blackhawk too. We asked Clinton for an AC-130 before the raid but were turned down. We wouldn't have had men trapped in that raid were it not for that extra support.

(Sorry for initially sending this private)


7 posted on 06/01/2006 12:59:52 AM PDT by Space Cruiser (liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: Space Cruiser

Don't be sorry.
That's ok.

OPINION: Clinton has proven again and again that his agenda wasn't a pro-America agenda. He had other things on his mind.


8 posted on 06/01/2006 1:06:37 AM PDT by Cindy
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Adding 3 links to post no. 5:

(Note: Includes a segment on Somalia.)

May 15, 2006

http://www.clandestineradio.com/gcw/gcw_060515.mp3?PHPSESSID=d1b5fa0101b9728ade2c0e30e2eee07f

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ON THE NET...

http://www.shabellenews.com

http://www.shabellenews.com/news/english.htm


9 posted on 06/01/2006 1:16:01 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Story is that Murtha advised slick willie to cut and run from Somalia.

He's bragged about that advice.

Seems to me we have an obligation to support our President at this time or we'll have terror attacks we can't imagine.

10 posted on 06/01/2006 1:22:55 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: Space Cruiser
Slick willie told the father of one of the murdered Rangers that it was the Ranger's fault for being so aggressive.

WAKE UP AMERICA, stop undercutting the President. The free world is depending upon this man.

11 posted on 06/01/2006 1:24:49 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: OldFriend
"Seems to me we have an obligation to support our President at this time or we'll have terror attacks we can't imagine."

Worth repeating again and again!

12 posted on 06/01/2006 4:28:10 AM PDT by stopem (God Bless the U.S.A the Troops who protect her, and their Commander In Chief !)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan; pinz-n-needlez; onyx; ohioWfan; Texasforever; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; ...
Meanwhile, consider this: Somalia was a global sideshow. We walked away. Now it threatens to become a prime refuge for terrorists. And a much tougher nut to crack.
Imagine the price we'd pay if we quit Iraq.

Ping

13 posted on 06/01/2006 4:48:10 AM PDT by Mo1 (DEMOCRATS: A CULTURE OF TREASON)
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To: OldFriend
WAKE UP AMERICA, stop undercutting the President. The free world is depending upon this man.

Needs repeating!!

14 posted on 06/01/2006 4:50:00 AM PDT by Mo1 (DEMOCRATS: A CULTURE OF TREASON)
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To: Mo1

I've mentioned the pull out from Mogadishu and how OBL has cited that Americans don't have the stomach for body bags and we're paper tigers. Most people give me blank stares and I realize that Americans really DO have short memories.


15 posted on 06/01/2006 4:54:05 AM PDT by Peach (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: Peach; Mo1

I had yet another person tell me recently that Clinton was the best president America ever had. sigh....


16 posted on 06/01/2006 6:14:00 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (WE REMEMBER AND ARE GRATEFUL TO OUR VETERANS!!)
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To: Mo1

The talking head radio egos are beyond hope. Nothing can undo their damage. While they'll be bragging about how smart they are, our President will be destroyed and our country along with it.


17 posted on 06/01/2006 6:23:16 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: OldFriend
While they'll be bragging about how smart they are, our President will be destroyed and our country along with it

I've turned those radio show off ..

18 posted on 06/01/2006 6:26:13 AM PDT by Mo1 (DEMOCRATS: A CULTURE OF TREASON)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

What Osama failed to understand is, the American People are not weak, only those limp wristed maggots we send to Washington DC are weak.

Thank God we have a president now who has a backbone and doesn't have the word "quit" in his vocabulary.


19 posted on 06/01/2006 6:26:33 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
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To: Mo1; OldFriend

Thanks for the ping.

GOOD posts, Old Friend. Spot on!


20 posted on 06/01/2006 9:03:26 AM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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