[Eagle of Liberty]

My President sure didn't tell me about the attack as Clinton didn't WANT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT IT! Clinton loved feel-good speeches and what better opportunity than when the country's under attack by foreign elements? Yet Clinton said not a word to the nation and this was on purpose, don't tell me not.

What I did not remember were the clips of Clinton's other pressers after the 1998 Embassy bombings where he sounded totally uninterested as he spouted, "I will, yawn, use, yawn, every military action posssible, yawn, to go after these terrorists."

Then, in the very next scene, Madeline Albright says that the President is not prepared to authorize an all-out attack on the Taliban because that is too over the top.

[gov_bean_ counter]

My President sure didn't tell me about the attack as Clinton didn't WANT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT IT!

My 17 year old daughter last night said Clinton didn't talk about it because then he would have actually had to do something about it, when if fact he was just waiting for the next election so it would become somebody else's problem.

[wouldntbprudent]

I remember the day the embassies were bombed, the adminstration came off as "well, it's over there . . ."

Also it seems like during this time, or maybe in the run-up, there was a great debate about the use of force in Kosovo, and the administration had been willing to authorize bombing only from galatic distances, etc.

The administration was:

(1) skeered of using military power just b/c it was skeered of using military power, and

(2) politically skeered of using military power b/c they in no way wanted to legitimate and validate the use of military power b/c American military power (to them) was the source of all eeevil in the world.