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The Attack on Baghdad
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9 / 1993 |
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Richard Bangs is the author of Island Gods, Whitewater
Adventure, and Riding the Dragon's Back, which won the
Lowell Thomas Award for the best travel book of 1989. He
is the founder of SOBEK Expeditions, an international
travel-adventure company, which has become part of Mt.
Travel-SOBEK. |
WAS THIS STRIKE NECESSARY? UNITED STATES--It's easy to appreciate the pressures that drove President Clinton to order an early Sunday morning missile attack.. . . And no sympathy need be wasted on Saddam Hussein, whose continued defiance. . . makes him, literally, an international outlaw.
The most obvious rationale for the attack would be the "compelling evidence" Mr. Clinton mentioned linking Iraqi intelligence to April's failed assassination plot against former President George Bush....
One hopes Mr. Clinton's response was correct. But to decide so based on the record as it stands requires a leap of faith and a complete suspension of political cynicism. There is one way to make moot the issues of faith and cynicism. Let's hear the evidence, rather than assertions of officials who say they have it.
New York Times
June 28, 1993
A MESSAGE FOR SADDAM
UNITED STATES--On Saturday, President Clinton made his first move in what is sure to be a protracted test of wills between the United States and Iraq . . . The fact that Mr. Clinton made a unilateral decision, invoking our right to national self-defense, is encouraging at a time when the mantra of multilateralism has become a constant refrain from the administration.
Given the extent of Saddam's aggressive potential, there would appear to be reason for a somewhat more strongly worded message to be sent to him than the one the United States sent him on Saturday. The principle behind the choice of target was, Mr. Clinton stated, proportionality. But is destroying an empty building proportionate to the attempted murder of an American leader?
Washington Times
June 28, 1993
STRIKE ON BAGHDAD
UNITED STATES--President Clinton did what a chief executive had to do in retaliating against Iraq's failed effort to assassinate former president George Bush . . .
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