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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:26:43 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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Clinton had no reason to take OBL in Sudan. Bush had a
similar problem prior to 9-11 if he wanted to use the same probable
cause logic. After 9-11 it was simply "kill the *******", as it should
have been after the 1993 WTC bombing.

The football game screwed up my recording of 60 minutes


I didn't say that. I said that he had no legal authority to do so. Bush's
problem was that he didn't follow through on what he should have, and went
cowboy on Iraq, which was totally unjustified.

No argument on Iraq but I blame that on GHWB and Clinton for not
getting the hell out of there when Powell told them to.
Without the aerial occupation of Iraq for 10 years and the
infrastructure we built up around that, the invasion would not be
possible.


?? We needed to contain Saddam, which we were doing. We could have done that
for another 20 years with very little loss of life.

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