Swamp Musings

Sunset over the swamp.

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the second-worst attack on the United States. Just pausing for the causes of the worst.

It's just a "what-if" of what would have happened if GHW Bush had not violated his "no new taxes" pledge. A lot of conservatives were also pretty put out that we'd stopped shy of going into Baghdad and rooting out the bastard while we were at it although that was not permitted under the UN rules at the time. The UN loves dictators and butchers as has been shown for virtually its entire existance.

Ross Perot probably would have not ran or if he had, it's very doubtful he would have gotten his 18.87% of the popular vote. He was anathema to the liberals and it's a pretty fair bet those votes would have gone to Bush 41 giving him a 56% to 44% win over Clinton discounting the fringies.

What would GHWB have done after the '93 bombing of the World Trade Center? Would he have had Reagan's nads and opened a can of whupass like Ronnie did when Kadafy's monkeys did that German nightclub? Do you recall the Frogs (as usual) refused to allow our aircraft overflight permission? Do you also recall Reagan's action gave Mad Dog Muamar a bad case of shut-the-f**k up until recently when he saw Saddam being drug out of his spider-hole? Would the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 5 U. S. military personnel, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel, the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and injured 5,000, and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39 sailors happened? Would the World Trade Center Towers have gone down?

I found this old newspaper clipping in my collection, thought it worth scanning and posting. Kadafy had just received a spanking!