An excerpt from President Clinton's speech 8-20-1998 concerning the attacks on Afghanistan and Sudan.

"THE PRESIDENT:

Good afternoon. Today I ordered our Armed Forces to strike at terrorist-related facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan because of the imminent threat they presented to our national security.

I want to speak with you about the objective of this action and why it was necessary. Our target was terror. Our mission was clear -- to strike at the network of radical groups affiliated with and funded by Osama bin Laden, perhaps the preeminent organizer and financier of international terrorism in the world today.

The groups associated with him come from diverse places, but share a hatred for democracy, a fanatical glorification of violence, and a horrible distortion of their religion to justify the murder of innocents. They have made the United States their adversary precisely because of what we stand for and what we stand against."

.....Sound familiar..?  (Funny how Osama's always right around the corner but by hook or by crook we can't find em') 

"I think Mark Green will be a great ambassador - to whatever country," said Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch (R-West Salem).

Green, the ex-Congressman who lost the race for governor last year, will be named ambassador to Tanzania. Maybe Huebsch couldn't remember where Green was going when he gave the "whatever country" quote. But there is actually some logic to sending him to an African country, as the Journal Sentinel notes:

Green, 47, has ties to Africa. He is the son of a South African immigrant, and he and his wife, Sue, spent a year in the late 1980s as volunteer teachers in Kenya, Tanzania's neighbor to the north.

Who says losing doesn't pay? Both Green, the losing candidate, and Rick Graber, who was Wisconsin Republican chair for the disastrous 2006 campaign, have been rewarded with ambassadorships. Graber is ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

There's precedent on the Democratic side of the aisle in Wisconsin. Tom Loftus, who lost a race for governor in 1990, was later named ambassador to Norway by President Bill Clinton.