Thank Clinton for a speedy victory in Iraq

[anonymous]

Originally posted by GrimCO
Not sure about you, but I think confidence is a major factor in judging a President. Having some indecisive guy in the Oval Office hemming and hawing for extended periods of time during a major crisis is indicative of weakness.

Bin Laden himself used the example of our withdraw from Somalia,  calling us "paper tigers".  Americans are not the only ones that notice such things.

id say the paper tigers bit was for the sake of the cannon fodder recruits he was lookin for. the top tier of operators for any terrorist bunch knows that regardless of country or president if ct operators are coming for them they need to beware. i think clinton could have shown more balls in somalia but he wasnt the only guy to make the call to leave. i was there and im mad at alot of people including clinton for what happened but there were plenty of military leaders who lacked balls in somalia in addition to cic. then again it would probably be close to the truth to say that the environment created by clinton is what caused military leaders like that to be able to easily exists in important positions in the first place. any time you have field officers in a marine combat unit blowing off combat training to make sure they cover their "pc" bases you know something is really wrong. what im sayin is that if clinton or gore was cic after 9/11 al qaeda would have been attacked but not with as much agressiveness or freedom of action and end result would be they would not be hurting as bad as they are now. but they still would have felt some pain. clinton or gore wouldnt have done nothing. but even if for some reason they wanted to do nothing their advisors would have almost forced anything but the worst possible course of action.

[-tronski-]

Anyone who thinks clinton could've gone after Osama/ALQ like GW did without something as substantial as 9/11 is dreaming. But there should be doubt he would've after a  similar 9/11, because he would've had no choice but to.

 Tronsky