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Originally posted by whiskers_ump
This would probably qualify under politics.
Something to Think About.
After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured
1,000, President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted
down and punished.
After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S. military
personnel, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down
and punished.
After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19
and injured 200 U.S. military personnel, Clinton promised that those would
be hunted down and punished.
After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and
injured 5,000, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted
down and punished.
After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 3
U.S. sailors, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down
and punished.
Maybe if Clinton had kept his promise, an estimated 6,000 people would
be alive today.
glen
[Edited by whiskers_ump on Nov 15th, 2001 at 05:54 PM]
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I find your finger-pointing to be very distasteful.
If the critics of the former President Clinton had spent their time a little more constructively than going even to the lengths to uncover who-did-what-with-a-cigar-to-whom, then perhaps those
Americans would not have so harshly criticized the President for his retaliation against terror camps in Afghanistan and a chemical weapons plant in the Sudan. At the time, Clinton's critics lambasted him for that move. He had no choice but to stop. America clearly did not support him.
But since those
Americans do not have the cajones to admit their responsibility for our future inaction because of their very vocal protests against those strikes, they also get a spot in the Finger-Point Hall of Fame, and share in the responsibility for those 5000 deaths on September 11th.
It is spineless to have condemned Clinton for those strikes, and then now point your finger at his subsequent inaction. Oh, but I suppose you were one of those in full support of President Clinton at the time, weren't you? What hogwash!
The reality is that not many in America cared too much about terrorism because it always took place on foreign soil. Since you weren't in an embassy in Africa, you weren't ready to support what needed to be done. Now, the terror has hit the homeland, and you're pointing your finger? Where I come from, we have names for people like you. I'm just too much of a gentleman to mention what that word is.