@Drnaline,
Which entanglements did Bush get into without CAUSE?
These are a few of Clintons entanglements from the first few months of his presidency.
1993 -- Iraq. On January 21, 1993, shortly after his inauguration, President Clinton said the United States would continue the Bush policy on Iraq, and U.S. aircraft fired at targets in Iraq after pilots sensed Iraqi radar or anti-aircraft fire directed at them.
1993 -- Bosnia-Hercegovina. On February 28, 1993, the United States bagan an airdrop of relief supplies aimed at Muslims surrounded by Serbian forces in Bosnia.
1993 -- Bosnia-Hercegovina. On April 13, 1993, President Clinton reported U.S. forces were participating in a NATO air action to enforce a U.N. ban on all unauthorized military flights over Bosnia-Hercegovina.
1993 -- Iraq. In a status report on Iraq of May 24, President Clinton said that on April 9 and April 18 U.S. warplanes had bombed or fired missiles at Iraqi anti-aircraft sites which had tracked U.S. aricraft.
1993 -- Somalia. On June 10, 1993, President Clinton reported that in response to attacks against U.N. forces in Somalia by a factional leader, the U.S. Quick Reaction Force in the area had participated in military action to quell the violence. The quick reaction force was part of the U.S. contribution to a success On July 1, President Clinton reported further air and ground military operations on June 12 and June 17 aimed at neutralizing military capabilities that had impeded U.N. efforts to deliver humanitarian relief and promote national reconstruction, and additional instances occurred in the following months.
1993 -- Iraq. On June 28, 1993, President Clinton reported that on June 26 U.S. naval forces had launched missiles against the Iraqi Intelligence Service's headquarters in Baghdad in response to an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate former President Bush in Kuwait in April 1993.
1993 -- Iraq. In a status report of July 22, 1993, President Clinton said on June 19 a U.S. aircraft had fired a missile at an Iraqi anti-aircraft site displaying hostile intent. U.S. planes also bombed an Iraqi missile battery on August 19, 1993.
1993 -- Macedonia. On July 9, 1993, President Clinton reported the deployment of 350 U.S. armed forces to Macedonia to participate in the U.N. Protection Force to help maintain stability in the area of former Yugoslavia.
Use of U.S. Forces Abroad
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If you put Bush 41's name instead of Clinton how many would you say had cause? I see abuse of power, no oversite by Congress, criminal recklessness. Prety much every thing Bush as been accused of.
Quote:Clinton's attack on Iraq
Military aggression and political diversion
By the Editorial Board
17 December 1998
The launching of US air and missile attacks on Iraq is a measure both of the desperation of the Clinton administration and of the criminal recklessness and bellicosity of American imperialism. Thousands of Iraqi lives are to be sacrificed, for the short-term goal of preserving Clinton's presidency, and for the long-term goal of maintaining US dominance in the oil-rich Middle East.
The timing of the attack, on the eve of the impeachment debate and vote in the House of Representatives, is clearly bound up with the political crisis of the Clinton White House. As he has throughout this political crisis, at every point when his presidency has been threatened, Clinton has sought to appease his right-wing opponents with the threat or use of military force.
Clinton's attack on Iraq: Military aggression and political diversion
Quote:The "Blunder in the Balkans" (to borrow Rush Limbaugh's apt phrase describing the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia) promises to be the capstone of Bill Clinton's legacy. The Perjurer-in-Chief and Rapist-in-Chief, the man who heads the most corrupt presidency in American history, has now lead the United States into a war in which we do not belong, either politically, morally or constitutionally.
The United States has absolutely no vital interests at stake in Yugoslavia; the conflict there is the kind of European war which Americans should avoid, if we follow the advice of the early American presidents, beginning with George Washington in his famous Farewell Address. The situation in Yugoslavia has been ably summarized by journalist Philip Terzian: "We are bombing a sovereign nation, not a member of NATO, which is not disturbing its neighbors but seeking, instead, to prevent one of its provinces from seceding. Bear in mind that the United States fought a bloody, four-year civil war, on the issue of secession (we're against it) and that NATO, in its action against the Serbs, now proposes to invade a European state -- in the Balkans, no less -- to resolve an internal ethnic dispute. For the first time since 1945, the German air force is in action against another European country. And everyone agrees that air assaults are not conclusive. In order to achieve what we want, it might well be necessary to introduce ground troops."
The Clinton administration's decision to bomb Yugoslavia, under the rubric of NATO, is an incredibly stupid foreign policy blunder. Not only is the situation there none of the United States' business, our participation in the NATO bombings threatens to de-stabilize eastern Europe far more than anything done by Slobodan Milosevic's government. (Indeed, it can be argued that the bombing of Kosovo worsened the so-called "ethnic cleansing" and other atrocities being committed by Serbian or Yugoslav forces in that province.) Critics of the United States and of the West generally can point to the bombings as clear evidence of western "imperialism." Undoubtedly, many Communists and other leftists in the new NATO member nations of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic are doing just that -- possibly setting back for decades whatever progress in foreign relations the United States has made in eastern Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union.
THE FEDERALISTS' PAPER: Analysis: Clinton's War
Quote:COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY RELIEF
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
1. In this action seventeen members of Congress seek declaratory relief declaring that the Defendant, the President of the United States, is unconstitutionally continuing an offensive military attack by United States Armed Forces against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia without obtaining a declaration of war or other explicit authority from the Congress of the United States as required by Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution, and despite Congress' decision not to authorize such action.
2. Plaintiffs also seek a declaration that a report pursuant to Section 1543(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution was required to be submitted on March 26, 1999, within 48 hours of the introduction into hostilities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of United States Armed Forces. Additionally, Plaintiffs seek a declaration that, pursuant to Section 1544(b) of the Resolution, the President must terminate the use of United States Armed Forces engaged in hostilities against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia no later than sixty calendar days after March 26, 1999. The President must do so unless the Congress declares war or enacts other explicit authorization, or has extended the sixty day period, or the President determines that thirty additional days are necessary to safely withdraw United States Armed Forces from combat.
TOM CAMPBELL ET AL. V. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
You still think he had cause? If it were Bush would you feel different?