[lbo-talk] 'shillin' with Al Franken

[Luke Weiger]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>


> Good for Sam Smith.  See Tom Gorman, "Al Franken and Al-Shifa"
> <www.counterpunch.org/gorman10182003.html>, where Franken is quoted as
> referring to himself as a "DLC Democrat" and defending Clinton's
> cruise-missile bombing of the al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant in Sudan in
> 1998 (which, we learned this week, Richard Clarke approved and still
> defends).  --CGE

What reason is there to think that the cruise-missile bombing wasn't
justifiable?  Perhaps the US should've built them a new pharmaceutical
factory after the fact, but that's a different question.

-- Luke