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Originally posted by techweenie
What frustrated me at the time was that Clinton got slammed for whacking an 'aspirin factory' which was (of course) misidentified as WMD plant by our own sterling intelligence folks. Why Clinton (or later, Bush) didn't fire these folks for making the US look bad is beyond me.
The funny thing is that the 'Monica's Missiles' attack might be the most concerted effort to date to get OBL launched by the US to date. While the Repubs and right-biased media laughed it off, it was a BIG attack.
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I truly wish that Clinton had succeeded in getting OBL. We wouldn't even be having this conversation. The difference that we are having right now is by degrees. Clinton didn't roll on into the Sudan to destroy WMD's. Even though that country is 99% Muslim they don't really pose much of a threat so why go? Hit the WMD factory and you're done.
Bush did roll into Afghanistan and then Iraq. Now he's in troubel for not finding anything significant. I believe there were WMD's there - Saddam was that ruthless. I still believe they are out there - maybe in Syria or Iran.
And Tech I ask myself that same question - What is so sacred about these intelligence folks anyway? How can they keep screwing up time and time again and still be pulling a paycheck??!? These guys could conceivably have been responsible for two presidents losing their jobs - Clinton if he would have been more aggressive and W if he does in fact lose in November.
Craig