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89. it is wrong to use this horrible tragedy to make political points.
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  -1994-The red phone rang and rang and rang again.....and no one answered. FrenchieCat  Mar-11-08 02:41 AM   #0 
  - Excellent post -nt  NMMatt   Mar-11-08 02:43 AM   #1 
  - It is really just so unbelievably sad......  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 02:46 AM   #2 
  - It's sad you couldn't find anyone but an Obama campaign worker to quote  MagsDem   Mar-11-08 12:04 PM   #49 
     - Do you have a problem with basic chronology?  EmilyAnne   Mar-11-08 01:19 PM   #52 
     - Samantha Power.....  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 01:37 AM   #67 
     - Another** Obama Advisor had to RESIGN today--He was sending out these 3 am  rodeodance   Mar-12-08 06:02 AM   #86 
  - Case For George Bush  PraiseTheMessiah   Mar-11-08 11:39 PM   #61 
     - I suggest that when we can do good, we should......and we could have.....  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 02:03 AM   #70 
  - What a cheap smear. Now the Clintons are genocidal?  jackson_dem   Mar-11-08 02:48 AM   #3 
  - Like I said, no one answered the damn phone.......  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 02:50 AM   #4 
  - The Clintons did stumble a bit in their first two years due to inexperience in DC, foreign affairs  jackson_dem   Mar-11-08 03:02 AM   #5 
     - Clinton was begged to intervene in the Balkans....which he  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 03:06 AM   #7 
     - The Blue Dress was found in 1994?  jackson_dem   Mar-11-08 03:14 AM   #9 
        - Talking about Kosovo.......  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 03:35 AM   #13 
           - You are SO ignorant about history  MagsDem   Mar-11-08 11:56 AM   #48 
     - Rwanda wasn't due to inexperience so much as it was the earlier experience in Somalia  andym   Mar-11-08 03:11 AM   #8 
     - You are right. Somalia made Bill gunshy  jackson_dem   Mar-11-08 03:16 AM   #10 
     - Bingo!  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 03:36 AM   #14 
     - Judgement versus experience. eom  No Surrender   Mar-11-08 07:12 AM   #31 
     - Off topic much? Trying to turn the tables as usual?  catgirl   Mar-11-08 07:23 AM   #32 
     - So, you're saying that they couldn't quite figure out  Occam Bandage   Mar-11-08 11:54 AM   #45 
     - Bill Clinton knew enough about foreign policy to deep-six the BCCI report FOR Poppy Bush  blm   Mar-11-08 02:31 PM   #54 
  - You need to do some research.  Window   Mar-11-08 04:25 AM   #20 
  - Read what Bill Clinton's comments were  catgirl   Mar-11-08 07:26 AM   #33 
  - Billary Sure Acted Right Quick On The Aspirin Factory Of Doom  MannyGoldstein   Mar-12-08 07:02 PM   #96 
  - More.....  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 03:03 AM   #6 
  - another insane smear post: we are not the world's police...why not Sri Lanka now?  amborin   Mar-11-08 03:18 AM   #11 
  - We are not the world's police!  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 03:37 AM   #16 
  - which is why Samatha was is so hypocritical  amborin   Mar-11-08 04:29 AM   #24 
     - Sure, go after a human rights campaigner instead of the deserving person  catgirl   Mar-11-08 07:28 AM   #34 
     - You know, one problem with having so many people on ignore...  ekwhite   Mar-11-08 10:47 PM   #57 
     - That was what one would call.....  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 04:19 PM   #95 
  - Who do we have left to send anywhere  Window   Mar-11-08 04:29 AM   #22 
  - I agree. I'm for Obama--but not this smear.  michigander3   Mar-11-08 04:38 AM   #26 
     - Why did Bill Clinton apologize and call it one of his biggest mistakes  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 11:49 AM   #39 
        - If we had major riots in the USA, I wouldn't expect help...  michigander3   Mar-11-08 01:48 PM   #53 
           - How carefully? This was proposed to be a U.N. action......  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 01:40 AM   #69 
  - Recommended  Catherina   Mar-11-08 03:22 AM   #12 
  - that we go into Myanmar? and stop the monks' slaughter?  amborin   Mar-11-08 03:36 AM   #15 
  - 800,000 Rawandans were left to die by the Clinton administration.....  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 03:38 AM   #17 
     - no, 500,000 were left to die by the Hutu militias  amborin   Mar-11-08 04:33 AM   #25 
        - right.....800,000 in large part cause the phone wasn't answered.....  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 11:55 AM   #47 
           - why aren't you agitating for immediate invasion of Sri Lanka?  amborin   Mar-11-08 01:08 PM   #51 
  - So do I!  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 04:06 AM   #18 
  - I will never forget that.  Window   Mar-11-08 04:23 AM   #19 
  - Trash Bill Clinton.  Tennessee Gal   Mar-11-08 04:26 AM   #21 
  - The Republicans didn't want to go into Rwanda either......  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 04:29 AM   #23 
  - Your post is still a trash of Bill Clinton.  Tennessee Gal   Mar-11-08 04:41 AM   #27 
     - Maybe that's what he deserved, I know what 800,000 Rwandans  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 01:38 AM   #68 
  - There are two issues that I find it acceptable to outright trash Bill Clinton on.  Occam Bandage   Mar-11-08 11:51 AM   #43 
  - sickening Samantha posing w/ her plastic water bottle, while so many Africans have no potable water  amborin   Mar-11-08 04:42 AM   #28 
  - Samantha Power shouldn't drink water in the U.S.?  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 11:47 AM   #38 
     - too ignorant to know plastic water bottles are the sign of total scorn for the world's poor  amborin   Mar-11-08 01:07 PM   #50 
        - Well it's good to know that you don't give a shit about people.....  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 02:07 AM   #71 
           - describing yourself i see  amborin   Mar-12-08 12:23 PM   #93 
  - Bill chose wisely  JustABozoOnThisBus   Mar-11-08 06:40 AM   #29 
  - Sick  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 02:08 AM   #72 
     - I don't think libertarians are fond of light blue helmets  JustABozoOnThisBus   Mar-12-08 04:17 AM   #75 
  - call back when it's something politically expedient!  JVS   Mar-11-08 07:06 AM   #30 
  - Great post FrenchieCat  catgirl   Mar-11-08 07:29 AM   #35 
  - WOW!! ...K&R ..n/t  not_too_L8   Mar-11-08 07:32 AM   #36 
  - This issue is bigger than our primary election.  CarbonDate   Mar-11-08 07:41 AM   #37 
  - Yep....experience at making mistakes....whether  FrenchieCat   Mar-11-08 11:54 AM   #46 
  - The Clintons must have forwarded that WH red phone message to voice mail.  AtomicKitten   Mar-11-08 11:50 AM   #40 
  - k/r  AZBlue   Mar-11-08 11:51 AM   #41 
  - Do African nations even have the number to the red phone?  Kristi1696   Mar-11-08 11:51 AM   #42 
  - Is your candidate campaigning on being the world's policeman?  MagsDem   Mar-11-08 11:53 AM   #44 
  - There's no excuse.  kryckis   Mar-11-08 04:31 PM   #55 
  - i agree. and it breaks my heart too. k&r for this thread. n/t  orleans   Mar-11-08 09:08 PM   #56 
  - The Clinton administration's response to Rwanda was abysmal  ekwhite   Mar-11-08 10:48 PM   #58 
  - Samantha Speaks The Truth  PraiseTheMessiah   Mar-11-08 11:29 PM   #59 
  - Did DU'ers Take Action?  PraiseTheMessiah   Mar-11-08 11:32 PM   #60 
  - If only they had a little bit of oil k and r  grantcart   Mar-11-08 11:40 PM   #62 
  - Samantha Power is really a lowly turd.  AX10   Mar-11-08 11:44 PM   #63 
  - Case For George Bush  PraiseTheMessiah   Mar-11-08 11:48 PM   #64 
  - Somalia 1993  PraiseTheMessiah   Mar-12-08 12:12 AM   #65 
  - hilary being the ostrich she  zidzi   Mar-12-08 01:33 AM   #66 
  - funny cartoon today I saw- Its 3 am and the WH red phone rings, Bill  caligirl   Mar-12-08 02:46 AM   #73 
  - !  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 04:23 AM   #76 
  - Kick  Scurrilous   Mar-12-08 03:14 AM   #74 
  - Cheap-shot on Bill Clinton. Shame on you. Samatha Powers brought her  rodeodance   Mar-12-08 04:41 AM   #77 
  - So ask Bill why he apologized about this being one of his biggest  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 04:45 AM   #78 
     - You are making a political statement using these horrible deaths! and  rodeodance   Mar-12-08 05:08 AM   #79 
     - No, I am calling attention to articles written by others......  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 05:17 AM   #81 
        - It is you that are using them for your purpose of smearing Bill Clinton.  rodeodance   Mar-12-08 05:25 AM   #83 
           - Whatever.  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 05:32 AM   #85 
     - I am on the fence about the US  eilen   Mar-12-08 05:22 AM   #82 
        - They were asking for 5,000 U.N. Peacekeepers......  FrenchieCat   Mar-12-08 05:28 AM   #84 
           - My point was that it is complicated  eilen   Mar-12-08 06:04 AM   #87 
  - *See this--An Obama Advisor is sending these 3 am emails--He resigned  rodeodance   Mar-12-08 05:11 AM   #80 
  - The personal pecadillos of Bill Clinton did contribute to  Skidmore   Mar-12-08 06:12 AM   #88 
     - it is wrong to use this horrible tragedy to make political points.  rodeodance   Mar-12-08 07:08 AM   #89 
        - Which horrible tragedy?  Skidmore   Mar-12-08 01:00 PM   #94 
  - What the hell was he supposed to do?  Deep13   Mar-12-08 08:19 AM   #90 
  - Excellent post, and oh so sad. n/t  greguganus   Mar-12-08 08:21 AM   #91 
  - "his entire experienced foreign policy team"  Sees Clearly   Mar-12-08 10:44 AM   #92 
 

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