re clinton joins list of genocidal socialist leaders in article hydra gatech edu gt a prism gatech edu cochrane james shapleigh writes btw if i screwed up bad enough to get someone hurt killed my co the pms probably the brigade commander and possibly the region commander could all expect a good amount of heat possibly including reassignment or seperationfrom service certainly the pms would not be promotable and would shortly thereafter be asked to retire this is called accountability if my pms knew beforehand about the activities in which a person was killed he would be nailed for failing to ensure that proper safety measures were taken if he didn t know he would be nailed for improper supervision can we hold the president of the us to lower standards than his subordinates after all he was briefed on the fbi raid he could have asked how they intended to flush the bd s out the president is not competent to plan or judge the planning of such a raid nor does he need to be his job is to set basic policies and manage the people under him if clinton instructed reno to preserve lives and if she confirmed that the plan for the raid was a safe as could be then he did his job the president should not involve himself in the minor details of these kinds of operations this sort of micromanagement only leads to disaster as was demonstrated so well in vietnam but the raid went bad over civilians have been killed in a controntation with u s authorities now clinton enters the picture in a big way will clinton start an investigation or will he try to squash any attempt to investigate is he a responsible leader or is he only interested in protecting the image of his administration we ll all find out as this unfolds mark draughn draughn iitmax iit edu or sysmark iitvax on bitnet academic computing illinois institute of technology w st street chicago illinois
