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Presidential regret: They have a few
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| 1.27.09
Posted on 01/27/2009 10:34:40 AM PST by meandog
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George "Read My Lips" Bush: "I didn't get Saddam Hussein!"
Bill "Look What I Put on Monica's Lips" Clinton: "I didn't stop Rwanda genocide!"
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:34:40 AM PST
by
meandog
To: meandog
HW, I would include not going into Bagdad. You bowed before international opinion, the Clinton way.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:37:11 AM PST
by
DBCJR
(What would you expect?)
To: meandog
the question was should we have kind of kept going on that road to death and all this slaughter until Saddam Hussein showed up and laid his sword on the table, surrendered. And the common wisdom was he wouldn't do that." Amazing how they knew back then that Sadam would instead, crawl into a hole in the ground until we found him.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:45:25 AM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: meandog
Bush I should have let The Bear go after him in Baghdad..But Powell put a stop to that.
Clinton,,he should regret having been elected.
To: meandog
And when GHWB ordered Gen. Schwartzkopf to stop the pursuit of Saddam Hussein, my wife and I came up out of our seats screaming at the TV “You’ve just got our 12 year old son destined for war you IDIOT!!” Guess what? That’s exactly what happened, our son served two combat deployments in Iraq.
Why is it us “common” (read stupid surfs) can see things just as clearly and in some cases MORE clearly than these wonderful, highly educated blue blood idiots? Pretty disgusting.
Yeah, you FAILED us HW, you truly did LIE with your no-tax pledge and micro-managing the 1st Gulf War, not allowing good combat leaders to do their job: KILL THE ENEMY, dammit! Am I angry, you damned right, it’s past time to take our country back from these retards, including this Kenyan illegal alien.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:47:41 AM PST
by
brushcop
(We remember SSG Harrison Brown, PVT Andrew Simmons B CO 2/69 3ID KIA Iraq OIF IV)
To: meandog
"I've thought a lot about it, but at the end of Desert Storm, the question was should we have kind of kept going on that road to death and all this slaughter until Saddam Hussein showed up and laid his sword on the table...." He's gone already..forget about it.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:50:25 AM PST
by
Earthdweller
(Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
To: DBCJR
Not so. Bush ‘41 made the mistake of seeking UN approval which stated he was only authorized to remove Saddam from Kuwait, not invade Iraq.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:51:00 AM PST
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: Deb
But he did invade Iraq - and he stopped with victory in sight.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:52:22 AM PST
by
DBCJR
(What would you expect?)
To: Deb
BTTT
Many choose to ignore this.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:54:07 AM PST
by
Islander7
(LOST TAGLINE - If found, please return. LARGE Reward.)
To: DBCJR
The only way he could get UN approval of the war, and sign on so many allies, was to agree not to go to Baghdad. To have done so would have been a direct breaking of his word. In retrospect he probably would have been better served by breaking his word than letting it go the way it did. He broke his “no new taxes” pledge and cost him his office anyway.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:55:29 AM PST
by
jwparkerjr
(God Bless America!)
To: DBCJR
We crossed the border when we chased the Iraqi army down the Highway of Death, but we did not continue on to Baghdad and depose S.H. because it was not in the UN resolution. Unlike Clinton who managed to get Monica off the front pages by not going to the Congress or the UN and bombing the shit out of Serbian civilians, the Danube river and CNN.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:58:05 AM PST
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: jwparkerjr
Thus the reason W went without UN resolution. Why involve nations, and be bound by resolutions, who are trading with the enemy despite UN sanctions. The UN has made itself irrelevant.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:58:33 AM PST
by
DBCJR
(What would you expect?)
To: brushcop
Yeah, you FAILED us HW, you truly did LIE with your no-tax pledge and micro-managing the 1st Gulf War, not allowing good combat leaders to do their job: KILL THE ENEMY, dammit! Am I angry, you damned right, its past time to take our country back from these retards, including this Kenyan illegal alien.True, and like father, like...
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:59:13 AM PST
by
meandog
(The two named Bush get the bird from this hand!))
To: Islander7
Yes, and he seems to have forgotten it himself.
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posted on
01/27/2009 10:59:35 AM PST
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: meandog
Bill, hate to tell ya but your biggest mistake was not resigning after being impeached.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:02:34 AM PST
by
Diggity
To: DBCJR
HW, I would include not going into Bagdad. You bowed before international opinion, the Clinton way.”
HW also bowed to Powell, which still makes me wonder just who’s country Colin Powel is really supporting...
He really worries me.
To: DBCJR
IIRC, W wasted months waiting for UN approval. At one point going back for “one more vote” at the specific request of the British PM. They fiddle-farted around for months and months getting all those people on board, supposedly, and during that time Saddam had the opportunity to shore up his plans and move all his WMD’s into Syria or bury them in the sands of Iraq.
I'm almost certain W held off until he got the OK from the UN. That was the speech Colin Powell gave that turned out to be full of incorrect information. Powell used that speech as his excuse for coming out of the closet as a liberal.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:19:08 AM PST
by
jwparkerjr
(God Bless America!)
To: brushcop
I remember well that day when Colin Powell and weakneed HW Bush wimped out to appease their future employers SA...I jumped off the coach and screamed you friggin’ idiots and have despised both ever since. IMO, in hindsight, if HWB had finished off Saddam I doubt he would have loss to BJC in 1992.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:25:26 AM PST
by
iopscusa
(El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
To: jwparkerjr
He proceeded without UN approval. Kerry tried to hang that around his neck.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:59:55 AM PST
by
DBCJR
(What would you expect?)
To: ridesthemiles
Yes, Powell is a “Reverse Tom”, i.e., appears like a Tom to decoy whitey into a Pied Piper following him into a liberal path.
I have much more respect for black leaders who are what they say they are.
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posted on
01/27/2009 12:02:58 PM PST
by
DBCJR
(What would you expect?)
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