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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 655211" data-attributes="member: 1912">Clinton changed the mission in somalia from a humanitarian one to a more militaristic one. Once he did he should have reinforced the light infantry we had with some heavy duty armor instead of our relying on the resources of other nations.Instead he stripped troop levels from 25000 to 4000 and then committed those troops in the middle of a civil war. As a result the mission in MOG was a classic example of his failure to support his troops in favor of political considerations. Our troops went into MOG to extract bad guys. When they went in the plan had to be to get in and out quickly. There was no back up plan with such limited resources to committ. Once a couple of helicopters went down the plan was screwed. We had no heavy armor to rescue the guys and had to wait on a foriegn nation( Pakistan?) to move their resources many hours later. This is one of many clinton failures leading up to 9/11. In reality Clinton should have been charged with manslaughter for his indirect murder of troops in Somalia. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/16/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5987076.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/16/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5987076.shtml</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.helium.com/items/492104-a-failure-in-somalia-blackhawk-down" target="_blank">http://www.helium.com/items/492104-a-failure-in-somalia-blackhawk-down</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 655211, member: 1912"] [COLOR=blue]Clinton changed the mission in somalia from a humanitarian one to a more militaristic one. Once he did he should have reinforced the light infantry we had with some heavy duty armor instead of our relying on the resources of other nations.Instead he stripped troop levels from 25000 to 4000 and then committed those troops in the middle of a civil war. As a result the mission in MOG was a classic example of his failure to support his troops in favor of political considerations. Our troops went into MOG to extract bad guys. When they went in the plan had to be to get in and out quickly. There was no back up plan with such limited resources to committ. Once a couple of helicopters went down the plan was screwed. We had no heavy armor to rescue the guys and had to wait on a foriegn nation( Pakistan?) to move their resources many hours later. This is one of many clinton failures leading up to 9/11. In reality Clinton should have been charged with manslaughter for his indirect murder of troops in Somalia. [/COLOR] [URL]http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/16/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5987076.shtml[/URL] [URL]http://www.helium.com/items/492104-a-failure-in-somalia-blackhawk-down[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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