actually, 8 years of peace...
look up the story behind "blackhawk down." this was his first test as commander in chief.
and he failed. if you watch that movie and listened to the commentary of the 4 guys who was actually there, you can hear how they were not able to use every single tool that was available to them. they were denied at the highest level. and when klinton saw the failure there, he was more cautious when sending US troops since he didnt want another "mess" on his watch. as for the balanced budget, when you cut the military in half, which is the biggest slice in the US budget, sure you will have tons of money left over. as for bin laden, take a look at a book called
DERELICTION OF DUTY
When I said Right Wing propaganda, I wasn't kidding. You discovered one of its giants:
Max Blumenthal
The Swift Boat Connection to ABC's 9/11 Deception
Posted September 12, 2006 | 10:57 PM (EST)
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................Who is Patterson? He is a former military aide to President Bill Clinton who exploited his brief, low-level experience in the White House to ingratiate himself with the far-right. In 2003, Patterson wrote "Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security," a polemic rife with distortions about Clinton's record in combating terrorism. A year later, he pumped out "Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats Undercut Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers, and Jeopardize Our Security," a book that claimed without basis that terrorists wanted the Democrats to win the 2004 presidential election. Both books were produced by the right-wing publishing house, Regnery.
During the 2004 election, Patterson's second book became a centerpiece of the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's campaign to undermine Sen. John Kerry's military record in Vietnam. The book dubiously asserted that after Kerry charged a Vietcong position, he returned from the battle "armed with a Super 8 video camera he had purchased at the post exchange at Cam Ranh Bay, and reenacted the skirmish on film."
Today, Patterson is a board member of Move America Forward, a right-wing group that mounted a PR campaign claiming that Saddam Hussein did indeed have WMD's, and falsely claimed a photograph that was later revealed to have been taken in Turkey was a snapshot of a Baghdad pacified by US military forces.
On September 1, while Nowrasteh endured scathing criticism of his falsehood-laden script, he called Patterson at home to tell him that he used his book, "Dereliction of Duty" as a source for the film that was about to air. Later that day, Nowrasteh hosted Patterson at his home for a private screening of The Path to 9/11. Patterson told WorldNetDaily a week after meeting with Nowrasteh that he received a personal phone call from ABC senior vice president Quinn Taylor.
When The Path to 9/11 finally aired with only 70 seconds of falsified footage missing, Nowrasteh declared triumph. "To lose only a minute is a success, is a victory," Nowrasteh told WorldNetDaily. "I think ABC stood tall."
Patterson, for his part, will be a headline speaker at David Horowitz's Renaissance Weekend this year.
