At 07:17 26-2-2003 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
When Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate George H.W. Bush, what was Clinton's response? A cruise missile strike on Iraqi intelligence HQ, _launched at night so that the building would be unoccupied_. What sort of message did that send?
The message "we want to destroy Iraq's Intelligence *infrastructure* (records, computer systems, etcetera) without having to kill *people* as well", perhaps?
When one refers to "intelligence assets," one is not referring to hardware or data.
-- Ronn! :)
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