The "Nobody Died When Clinton Lied" mantra found on t-shirts and bumper stickers isn't quite accurate.
People forget that Clinton ordered Tomahawk cruise missile strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan on August 20, 1998, to distract the American public from his Monica Lewinsky scandal following his testimony to a Grand Jury three days before and a few weeks before the Starr Report was submitted to Congress for consideration.
This, from a President who was reluctant to arrest or take a shot at bin-Laden when American authorities knew where he was and could have taken him off the street years before 9/11...and then all of a sudden he gets the nerve to strike at the al-Qaeda leader, his bases of operation and...some kind of milk and drug plant in Sudan. It was a weak response to the destruction of two U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania from terrorist bombs three weeks prior.
"Nobody Died When Clinton Lied" indeed.
They still aren't sure how many of the thirty killed in Afghanistan were al-Qaeda/Taliban supporters and how many were innocent civilians.
Now if someone wants to compare body counts between the Clinton and Bush administrations, that's a different story altogether, but it's not germaine to the bumper sticker discussion.
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