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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@May 31 2003, 08:42 PM
Ulfie - when in doubt, invoke Clinton? Puuuuu-leaze. Could be that Clinton - or any Democrat in the office - would have made a GENUINE effort to establish a truly international coalition (as opposed to Britian, Australia, Spain, Poland, and a who's-who of the fifth world) to depose Saddam. Kinda like the Bush Administration is doing with Korea? Could be we would have focused more efforts on alQaida, or making Afghanistan genuinely secure.
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Blah, blah, blah, we didn't have a "coalition". Leadership sometimes involves doing things that are unpopular. I've been in more leadership positions than you will ever know. Sometimes the right decision isn't the popular one. Thankfully I've never had to send men and women off to die. No human being takes that decision lightly.
Bill Clinton (yes I'm bringing him up again) licked his finger, stuck it in the air and determined which way the wind was blowing. He set policy based on what people wanted to hear. That's not leadership, that's cowardice. Being more concerned about being reelected than doing what's right for the country isn't something to be proud of.
Hate Bush all you want. 20 years from now we will be able to judge his legacy. Will he be hailed as one of our greatest Presidents? I doubt it. He will be far above the Clinton and Carter disasters though.
05-31-2003
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