PittsburghAfterDark
CAGiversary!
[quote name='alonzomourning23']The U.S. went from february 27th 1993 (95 if you count mcveigh, but that's a different form of terrorism than bush is fighting and is having an effect on) to september 10th 2001 without a terrorist attack.[/QUOTE]
On June 25, 1996, a terrorist truck bomb exploded outside the northern perimeter of Khobar Towers, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a facility housing U.S. and allied forces supporting the coalition air operation over Iraq, Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. Estimates of the size of the bomb range from the equivalent of 3,000 to more than 30,000 pounds of TNT. The Task Force estimated that the bomb was between 3,000 and 8,000 pounds, most likely about 5,000 pounds. While U.S. Air Force Security Police observers on the roof of the building overlooking the perimeter identified the attack in progress and alerted many occupants to the threat, evacuation was incomplete when the bomb exploded. Nineteen fatalities and approximately 500 U.S. wounded resulted from the attack.
For the Clinton team, desperate times called for the usual measures — a poll. Dick Morris noted in a memo a few days after the bombing:
SAUDI BOMBING — recovered from Friday and looking great
Approve Clinton handling 73-20
Big gain from 63-20 on Friday
Security was adequate 52-40
It's not Clinton's fault 76-18"
Foreign bases under any visiting forces act the U.S. signs and agrees to with host nations make those facilities U.S. territory.
80 killed in US embassy bombings.... The bombs exploded within five minutes of each other, first in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania where seven deaths have been reported, and then in the heart of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, while embassy workers were having their mid-morning coffee break. At least 74 people died in Nairobi where more than 1,600 were injured.
President Clinton condemned the bombers as "inhuman" and promised every effort to hunt them down.
U.S. Embassies are soverign American territory and have the legal standing of invading or bombing Ohio.
In response, the U.S. launched cruise missiles on Aug. 20, 1998, striking a terrorism training complex in Afghanistan and destroying a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Khartoum, Sudan, that reportedly produced nerve gas.
Of course launching $120 million worth of Tomahawk missiles at tents did nothing. The nerve gas facility turned out to be an aspirin factory. Clinton lied, people died. There were no WMD's. Where were the marchers and the outraged American left?
On October 12, 2000, USS Cole came to the harbor of Aden, Yemen for a routine fuel stop. Cole completed mooring at 09:30. Refueling started at 10:30. At 11:18 local time (08:18 UTC), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, putting a 40-by-40-foot (12 m-by-12 m) gash in the ship's port side.
President Bill Clinton declared, "If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism, it was a despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable"
U.S. warships and flagged commercial vessels are soverign American property and territory.
Well, so much for that argument.
On June 25, 1996, a terrorist truck bomb exploded outside the northern perimeter of Khobar Towers, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a facility housing U.S. and allied forces supporting the coalition air operation over Iraq, Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. Estimates of the size of the bomb range from the equivalent of 3,000 to more than 30,000 pounds of TNT. The Task Force estimated that the bomb was between 3,000 and 8,000 pounds, most likely about 5,000 pounds. While U.S. Air Force Security Police observers on the roof of the building overlooking the perimeter identified the attack in progress and alerted many occupants to the threat, evacuation was incomplete when the bomb exploded. Nineteen fatalities and approximately 500 U.S. wounded resulted from the attack.
For the Clinton team, desperate times called for the usual measures — a poll. Dick Morris noted in a memo a few days after the bombing:
SAUDI BOMBING — recovered from Friday and looking great
Approve Clinton handling 73-20
Big gain from 63-20 on Friday
Security was adequate 52-40
It's not Clinton's fault 76-18"
Foreign bases under any visiting forces act the U.S. signs and agrees to with host nations make those facilities U.S. territory.
80 killed in US embassy bombings.... The bombs exploded within five minutes of each other, first in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania where seven deaths have been reported, and then in the heart of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, while embassy workers were having their mid-morning coffee break. At least 74 people died in Nairobi where more than 1,600 were injured.
President Clinton condemned the bombers as "inhuman" and promised every effort to hunt them down.
U.S. Embassies are soverign American territory and have the legal standing of invading or bombing Ohio.
In response, the U.S. launched cruise missiles on Aug. 20, 1998, striking a terrorism training complex in Afghanistan and destroying a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Khartoum, Sudan, that reportedly produced nerve gas.
Of course launching $120 million worth of Tomahawk missiles at tents did nothing. The nerve gas facility turned out to be an aspirin factory. Clinton lied, people died. There were no WMD's. Where were the marchers and the outraged American left?
On October 12, 2000, USS Cole came to the harbor of Aden, Yemen for a routine fuel stop. Cole completed mooring at 09:30. Refueling started at 10:30. At 11:18 local time (08:18 UTC), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, putting a 40-by-40-foot (12 m-by-12 m) gash in the ship's port side.
President Bill Clinton declared, "If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism, it was a despicable and cowardly act. We will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable"
U.S. warships and flagged commercial vessels are soverign American property and territory.
Well, so much for that argument.
yes. Either way, you can beg and wish for a civil war all you want, but the Iraqi parliament is handling these issues like a civilized, diplomatic government should. They will not surrender to insurgents, like the American left is more than happy to do for them with their media to score political points. 
