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On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:49:58 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:23:29 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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Give me a break. Cheney orchestrated the increase of use of Haliburton
and
Blackwater.

Unless you were a stock watcher you probably thought Haliburton was an
oil service company in 1990-91 but that was the Gulf War play when
Kuwait was invaded because they were the prime DoD contractor for
logistics. For the 6 months of GW1 there was a lot of money to be made
betting on them, then after the war they went down with the rest of
the market.
After it was clear that Clinton was not going to end the war the stock
soared again. As I said, they were the prime contractor for the no fly
zone war throughout the Clinton administration (when Cheney worked
for them).


Clinton never said he was going to end the war.

I know but we thought it would be over soon. After all we won the war
didn't we?? ... but there was too much money to be made staying
there.
Clinton was saber rattling for his whole 8 years, bombing people in
Iraq almost every day and W was so dumb he took the threats Clinton
made in 1998-1999 seriously, enforcing those UN resolutions that were
just supposed to be empty rhetoric. Didn't he understand the UN is
just a paper tiger?


So, even though he never said that, it's still his fault?

Clinton was slammed over and over by the right for not being militaristic
enough...

Never said what? I agree they did not acknowledge the Iraq war much
during the 8 years Clinton waged it. We just saw all of the camera
shots from the GBU 25s smashing into "targets" without really
admitting they were people.

The main criticism I heard about Clinton't lack of military acumen was
his over dependence on guided munitions. (AKA Tomahawk Diplomacy).




Never said that he was going to "end" the war in Iraq.

He almost got bin laden with this "diplomacy."


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