Can you suggest another reason that Pres. Bush rebuffed pleas by various
humanitarian organizations to send troops for a year, and then sent them once
he lost the election?

See, once again your politics interfere with accurate information. Here's a
qoute from Globalsecurity.org;

"Operation Provide Relief - Somalia

Operation Provide Relief in Somalia began in August 1992, when the White House
announced US military transports would support the multinational United Nations
relief effort in Somalia. Ten C-130s and 400 people deployed to Mombasa, Kenya,
during Operation Provide Relief, airlifting aid to remote areas in Somalia to
reduce reliance on truck convoys. One member of the 86th Supply Squadron
deployed with the ground support contingent, USAFE's only contribution to the
operation. The Air Force C-130s delivered 48,000 tons of food and medical
supplies in six months to international humanitarian organizations, trying to
help over three million starving people. When this proved inadequate to stop
the massive death and displacement of Somali people (500,000 dead; 1.5 million
refugees or displaced), the U.S. in December 1992 launched a major coalition
operation to assist and protect humanitarian activities. The operation was
successful in stopping the famine and saving an estimated 200,000 lives, as
well as de-escalating the high-intensity civil war into low-level, local
skirmishes."

Seems Bush was responding to an actual need and not to "set up" Clinton. You
guys and these "vast right wing conspiracies" will they never end.


The thing is that Bush Sr. is more responsible for what happened in Modadisgu
than the Clinton administration is.


Not in reality, but in your little lefty world of course it is. More from
Globalsecurity.org;

"On December 3rd, U.N. Security Resolution 794 authorized the U.S. led
intervention "to use all necessary means to establish a secure environment for
humanitarian relief operations in Somalia as soon as possible."

Say it aint so! A U.N. operation, just like all you leftys love.

More;

"By March 1993, mass starvation had been overcome, and security was much
improved. At its peak, almost 30,000 US military personnel participated in the
operation, along with 10,000 personnel from twenty-four other states."

You're right, that evil Bush, all he did was order an operation that saved
hundreds of thousands of Somalis.

It's largely forgotten, but this was a hideous thing that Bush Sr. did.

What color is the sky in your world? The only hideous thing done in Somalia was
done by the U.N. and approved by Clinton. Once the operation changed from a
security one to "nation building" it was doomed. Every military advisor to
Clinton told him to pull out U.S. forces before the operation changed direction
OR beef up the U.S. presence significantly. Clinton ignored them, left U.S.
force strength the same and proceeded with an entirely different mission. The
results were predictible.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"