Clinton Aide Wanted Iraq to Shoot Down US Plane

Newser ^ | Oct 15, 2010 | John Johnson

[george76]

In 1997, one of Bill Clinton's Cabinet members suggested that Shelton order a US plane to fly low over Baghdad so Saddam would shoot it down and, ta da, give America instant justification for war. "I was so mad I was about to explode," recounts Shelton, thinking about the sacrificial pilot.

“Why, of course we can,” he responded. "Just as soon as we get your ass qualified to fly it, I will have it flown just as low and slow as you want to go.” The memoir doesn't name the Cabinet member, but Elliott notes that the way the passage is written leaves Madeleine Albright as a distinct possibility.

[pandoraou812]

Interesting.

[dixiechick2000]

“I’ll always remember the time Kim thought Half-bright was the cleaning lady. Classic.”

I don’t know about that but, according to Half-Bright, he liked her boobs. IIRC, the way her story goes is that she told him she needed a place for her pins to rest.

Not that I don’t believe that was a total fabrication on her part...

[TigersEye]

Disgusting. And believable.

[SF_Redux]

Iraq has been a dobale since we ended WWII, no guts have been in office willing to do it

[lowbridge]

bump

[yesca]

Old formula, goes back at least as far as giving Gary Powers only half the hydrogen load for his jet fuel so his U2 was able to be "given" to Russia "just in time" to ruin Ike's Peace Summit.

Cold War "velly profitable 'renture".

[yesca]

Peace is only profitable for peasants.

[PIF]

I’ll always remember the time Kim thought Half-bright was the cleaning lady. Classic.

Actually, I don't think you will...since it was the Albanians, not Kim. :-)

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Actually it was a Serb woman who saw her from a balcony window during a “Peace” conference. The poor woman was scared out of her wits, in her initial reaction she thought AB was a real witch — AB was dressed in all black with one of those large hats she favored.

The Albanians were the muslim allies (KLA) of AB, since she was of Albanian descent.

[PIF]

But it was Bush who is the war criminal?

Not until he assumed the Presidency after Clinton's term expired. Until then Clinton could do no wrong no matter how many innocent Serbs he ordered killed to save his buddies in the KLA — mostly Al Quaida operatives working out of the criminal enterprise called Albania - former Nazi allies with their own local SS battalions.

[yesca]

Al Quaida=Al CIAda

[DrC]

The timing isn’t specific, but it sounds as if this occurred before Lewinsky scandal blew up in January 1998 (although Jones lawyers named Lewinsky as a potential witness in the Paula Jones case on December 5, so it may have been clear that it was only a matter of time before the affair became public). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/timeline.htm

The request was despicable in any case, but would have been doubly so were the motivation to create a diversion away from a political scandal. I always viewed the December 1998 bombings as a transparent ploy to influence the outcome of the impeachment proceedings (bombings occurred Dec. 16-18: House impeached Clinton on December 19).

[Liberty1970]

Would you accept such orders or would you go ballistic? At what point to you question authority? Especially when you know your leaders are traitors and are complicit in treason against the people and Constitution!

I'd have turned for Mecca and blasted the %^*$&^ out of that stupid black stone they worship. At the same time various media outlets would be receiving pre-arranged communications explaining the nature and purpose of the original orders. Then I would have landed and laughed in their faces "So what are you going to do about me now?"

It's probably a good thing I was never in the military.

[Gondring]

lol

[Lockbar]

"I’ll always remember the time Kim thought Half-bright was the cleaning lady. Classic."

I don't have any photo-shop software. Sounds like a fun project to paste her ugly mug on some poor cleaning lady's picture.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Oh, Albright was willing to sacrifice, alrighty. Not herself, of course. But she was willing to sacrifice the lives of little kids.

When asked by "60 Minutes" if she thought that the death of half a million Iraqi children because of the economic sanctions (which btw failed to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime)was a price worth paying, Albright replied: "This is a very hard choice, but we think the price is worth it." ("60 Minutes" Link)