Posted on 08/26/2016 9:12:47 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Ho! Hmm. Wasn't that called Wag the Dog (1997)?
wha?
If you tried to make that movie today, you wind up fired, dissed & dead.
I don’t think news/activism means what you think it means.
Meanwhile, Monicagate was a distraction from Chinagate, a much more significant Clinton scandal.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3758922/Bill-Clinton-bombed-Iraq-distract-Monica-scandal-Huma-Abedin-s-Muslim-journal-claimed-boss-s-husband.html Bill Clinton bombed Saddam to distract from the Monica Lewinsky scandal - what Huma Abedin’s Muslim journal claimed about her boss’s husband
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OMG!!!!! Donald Trump declared some business bankruptcies once upon a time. OMG! OMG!!!
Try making any of the old/original SNL skits in the modern era.
Just a suggestion...maybe the DailyMail article should be the thread, with the Wag the Dog youtube being in the comment section?
Title of this thread a bit confusing to the issue at hand....Huma/Journal etc.
Of course that’s why Clinton did it. That was obvious 20 years ago.
Is there news, as in some confirming page of Huma’s diary being newly released?
On December 16, 1998, on the eve of the scheduled House vote on his impeachment, Bill Clinton launched a surprise bombing attack on Baghdad. As justification for this exploit, he cited the urgent threat that Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction posed to America, and the need for immediate action. Almost immediately, the House Democrats held a caucus and emerged calling for a delay in the impeachment proceedings. House minority leader Dick Gephardt made a statement: "We obviously should pass a resolution by saying that we stand behind the troops. I would hope that we do not take up impeachment until the hostilities have completely ended."
Conveniently, a delay so near the end of the House term would have caused the vote to be taken up in the next session – when the newly elected House membership would be seated with more Democratic representation, thereby improving Clinton’s chances of dodging impeachment.
The Republicans did, in fact, agree to delay the hearings, but only for a day or two. Amazingly, Clinton ended the bombing raid after only 70 hours -- once it became clear that in spite of the brief delay, the vote would still be held in the current session.
Once the bombing stopped, Clinton touted the effectiveness and importance of the mission. As reported by ABC News : “We have inflicted significant damage on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs, on the command structures that direct and protect that capability, and on his military and security infrastructure,” he said. Defense secretary William Cohen echoed the point: “We estimate that Saddam's missile program has been set back by at least a year.”
Whether or not one buys Clinton’s assessment of that mission, it is difficult to believe that its timing was so critical that it required commencement virtually at the moment the House was scheduled to vote on the impeachment. I think the most reasonable conclusion is that Clinton cynically deployed US military assets and placed military personnel in harm’s way for purely political reasons.
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