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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511
After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors, Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.
Maybe if Clinton had kept those promises, an estimated 3,000 people in New York and Washington,D.C. that are now dead, would be alive today.
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That is a question I asked myself and others many times during the Clinton Administration just prior to 9/11. Why wasn't he doing anything about the attacks that were taking place overseas? When the Cole happened (and I almost NEVER do this) I very purposely watched the news just to see if sanctions would be brought or SOMETHING, anything. When I worked in the defense industry, of course, their school of thought is if you turn your cheek too many times, the bully is gonna catch you off guard and clock you so good you'll be lucky to pick yourself up off the ground. This is the first thing that came to my mind when the planes started crashing in 2001. I've got a real pacifistic streak, but I don't condone bullies either. And I do believe the US has played the bully on more than one occassion in foreign affairs. I've never thought it was right for our gov't to "shove" it's beliefs down other people's throats and create wars over it, but not to the extent that atrocities against humanity are allowed to go unchecked. The last thing this Big Blue Planet needs is another Hitler, on any scale.
On the topic of conspiracy theories and cover ups. Wonder how many planes that have crashed and fallen out of the sky were really a result of terrorists. This has been going on for a very long time. I recall there being a LOT of press on it when I was in high school 1974-77 when the hijackings were going on. Then you didn't hear so much about it. Then after awhile planes started blowing up, running off runways and falling out of the air. And the NTSB always had some excuse. What about Lockerbee? And how about our space shuttles? Heck, don't even get me started on the topic of anti-depressant medications. Gad... Anyway... we'll never know, we're just tax paying peons. Modern day equivalent to slaves, knaves and surfs.
And on that cheery note...
Laura