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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Remember what you said to me when I posted that the GOP-led campaign against Clinton, culminating in his impeachment, had damaged our national security by severely constraing the administration's ability to accomplish anything for several years?
Consider it returned. Too bad, so sad.
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This is just pure and utter crap that is being peddled as an excuse for the failure to act by the Clinton Administration, and if anything, it was Clinton's actions had constrained their ability to act. I have never blamed Clinton for 9/11, mainly because I think it could not have been prevented. But I do think he was thoroughly uninterested in foreign policy, and uncomfortable with military strength, and we are paying for that now.
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If the invasion and resulting occupation had turned up anything CLOSE to the key allegations made by the administration and its supporters beforehand, you wouldn't have the issue at all. i.e. If we had found actual stocks of WMD, and/or hard links with al Qaeda, the anti-war crowd would have been reduced to muttering ("But is was STILL bad, and ILLEGAL.") which would have got them nowhere.
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Perhaps not in Iraq. But it's hard to fight a war, even harder when you don't have super majority support, and still harder when you are being criticized at home as being a liar, murderer, etc. But, I guess many on the left don't really consider this a war.
