Chi Trib at it again - LTTE blames Clinton for not reponding to USS Stark

[City Lights]

attack. :eyes: Are all chimp lovers special ed? You'd think after the stir we caused over the letter they printed blaming Clinton for not doing enough after Hurricane Andrew hit, they would have learned their lesson on fact-checking the shit they print. I don't know whether this letter appeared in the print edition, or whether they just posted it online.

Soft-on-terror Clinton

Mr. Bill Clinton is roaming around the country drumming up support for candidates this summer, hypocritically talking about President Bush's wrong-headed war on terror. I suppose he must think it’s a good thing that he did next to nothing in response to the bombing of the USS Stark, the truck bombing of the Twin Towers, the dragging of U.S. soldiers behind trucks in Somalia, etc., other than fire a few missiles and turn tail and run. Think how bad the problem would be now? His brilliant support of weakening surveillance powers of the FBI and CIA during his administration certainly also helped minimize the threat?

The funny thing is that there are people who must believe that. Perhaps they believe Prime Minister Chamberlain was right to appease Hitler as well? For eight years of his administration we showed terrorists and rogue governments that America was soft of terrorism. Is it any wonder that they assumed they could attack us at home and abroad with impunity? How dare he espouse rapprochement, negotiations with them or a retraction of our hunt-them-down strategy?

Why on earth do Americans donate money to the candidates he supports?

E. Alfred Johnson

Troy, Mich.

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_opinion_letters/2006/09/softonterror_cl.html

[acmejack]

1. Ronnie was the President when the Stark got hit...

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A C141B Starlifter carried 35 flag-draped caskets to the Stark's home base at Mayport, Florida. (Two of the crewmen were lost at sea during the attack.) President Reagan and the First Lady were on hand to extend condolences to grieving families. Reagan was under fire from Congress and the press for putting American servicemen in harm's way on a vaguely defined mission.

http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id344.htm

[City Lights]

3. Right, so why are so many bush-lovers "calendar challenged,"

and what does it say about the Chicago Tribune that they publish shit like this?

(I'm sure the writer meant the USS Cole, but that's not what he wrote.)

[flobee1]

2. the truck bombing of the Twin Towers,

EVERY ONE of the participants are now behind bars
what a moron

[BOSSHOG]

4. Alfred E. Johnson? - A. E. Neuman's cousin

And just why didn't Clinton step in when the Maine was sunk in Cuba?

Don't you know ole E. Alfred would love to have a blowjob. but he can't because bush men are so fucking repugnant to chicks.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Clinton also did nothing to stop Pearl Harbor!

He's soft on Japanese Imperialism.

[C_U_L8R]

6. And Bush The First put our troops on Saudi soil

which just happens to be Osama's number one reason

[Brewman_Jax]

7. I've yet to meet a freeper

that had correct facts and timelines. I'm surprised he didn't blame the Clenis for his crappy life, too. :shrug: