Post #24631 by thejab on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 11:54 AM

floratina wrote:

"To TheMuggler I must ask, where were all the liberals when Clinton went into Bosnia without UN approval? They weren't marching in the streets then. How about when Clinton fired cruise missiles into Iraq? Silence."

I will answer this one. The real "liberals" were voting for Nader in '96 because we felt that Clinton wasn't that much different from the Republicans in his domestic policies (cutting welfare as just one good example) and foreign policies (you mentioned 2 good examples). There was not "silence" as you stated, you (and every major media source) just chose not to listen to Nader and other people who criticized Clinton. Everyone (Democrats and Republicans alike) was riding so high on the stock market boom and so busy buying SUVs and cell phones they didn't really care about what Clinton was really doing.

The fact that Clinton's foreign policy of intervention in conflicts was just a continuation of Bush Sr.'s shows that all our recent Presidents, and most of our elected officials, are serving corporate interests and not the interests of the citizenry. I wasn't compelled to re-elect Clinton in '96 just because he was pro-choice and a conservationist.