justme: You’re accusing me of cherry picking sources? Uh, okay. So, using your own logic, picking Nixon while excluding LBJ doesn’t count?
I didn’t argue that Obama was worse than McCain because of his pastor; I argued that Obama’s dissembling on the Reverend Wright issue was problematic. McCain has his own baggage, and I ain’t voting for either of them.
As to nit-picking: Clinton dropped more bombs on Iraq than the US expended on Germany during WWII. Fact, and a verifiable one at that. The raw tonnage expended over Iraq exceeded that of WWII and USAF, USN and USMC sources can all be used to confirm this. These are not hand picked sources, rather these are US Department of Defense statistics.
Clinton’s enforcement of the sanctions killed 500,000 Iraqis. Might not be a fact, but this is the number used by IRC, UNCHR, and Amnesty International and widely so. Clinton choose the level to which he was going to enforce the UN sanctions. He was not ordered to enforce those sanctions to the degree he did by the UN, he choose to and unilaterally so.
Clinton’s aggressive posture on Iraq and his support of regime change there (Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998) are not only well known, they are well documented and through sources other than Wikipedia and “Counterpunch”. While the sanctions were UN, the enforcement of same were Clinton’s. Period. US forces in the areas surrounding Iraq and in the neighboring oceans and seas were under the command of the Commander-In-Chief, President Bill Clinton. They worked with other UN forces, such as the British, but the command and control aspects, including intel gathering, targeting and bombing, were all American and the orders to bomb were Clinton’s. Again, period.
You speak of contortions, but you freely twist the logic into this sophistic nonsense. Very Clintonian in it’s own way, now I see why you like him so much.
You had to look up Quad Erat Demonstratum, didn’t you? Admit it.
