Posted on 09/24/2006 9:03:18 AM PDT by technomage
It was to be a car bomb along the route Bush 41 was to take in Kuwait, I bleieve.
AH, thanks for the info.
But Clinton states he was prevented from doing the "more " he wanted because he got political resistant I.E. it would cost him personal political capital (poll numbers)
So it boil down to the Clinton acknowledges that a aggressive approach was call for (like Bush is doing) but it cost political capital (poll numbers... like it is costing Bush)...
So Billy the dif is Bush is will to take the political hit to do what right, poll be damed, that Bill would not
Well, well. I am honored that a DU troll decided to sign-up today just to post a reply to my post. I must have hit a nerve.
ZOT!
Rather he is overindulgent to himself in the erotic. And all his "work" is imbued with that ethos of instant gratification.
It is Cerebus who be the final "wag the dog" for him, in and no out.
I'm confident you know this issue is a red flag being waved at many bulls.
"Wag the Dog arose because of the fact that Clinton bombed the aspirin factory the night before scheduled impeachment vote. The other bombing was in response Iraq's attempt on Geo. H.W. Bush's life when B41 was in Kuwait for a victory lap."
This Quote from magoo70804 (#17) sums it up pretty well, but in the interests of history, there is more.
Clinton took the WH Press Corps on a junket to Sea Island or some such place on the night of the "Aspirin Factory" and "Terror Training Camp" bombings. For amusement, the corps was treated with a screening of "Wag the Dog" which was just out or about to come out. During the feature, the corps was called together for a quick press conference which announced the bombings.
To me, the implication was that, to preclude the press from asserting this incident as a "Wag the Dog" scenario and pooh-pooh it as a cheap trick, Clinton was able to argue, he wouldn't have been so stupid as to believe the press would fall for this. IMHO, they drank this koolaid.
In my mind's eye, I can easily imagine somebody asking, "Do you think we'd pull something like this while you were watching this movie?"
Clinton links these ideas because he dreamed them up or was present when they were, I speculate.
If some one else has remembered this, forgive me. I couldn't spare the time to check all the other posts.
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