If Bush, Powell & Rumsfeld "Lied" on WMD, So Did the UN, EU & Clinton

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<h2><font color=#003399>If Bush, Powell & Rumsfeld "Lied" on WMD, So Did the UN, EU & Clinton
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My friends, I'm not denying that the Bush administration made disarming the Hussein regime of WMD a big reason for going to war.

But we can't declare that there never were any weapons in Iraq after only a few weeks.

Those who do so are stepping into a pile of quicksand on this, because we're going to find more evidence of WMD - and it'll be door-in-face time.

You people are so ready to call Bush a liar, but in doing so you'll have to admit that Bill Clinton was a liar - just as we'll have to cite him as credible to make this point.

One caller charged Colin Powell should go to Iraq and show us the WMD facilities he talked about.

Um, do you people think Saddam Hussein could've watched that same briefing and dumped his WMD?

Another liberal caller said, "My side isn't denying Saddam had WMD."

That's your whole mantra now - to the point where you say we can't believe the administration on Iran's nuclear program or even believe the North Koreans on the nukes they themselves told us they have.

Over the weekend, I went back in time and dug up examples of what liberals and President Bush said about Saddam's arsenal of banned weapons.

Stephen Hayes' Weekly Standard column lists a bunch of Bill Clinton's statements on this subject.

Remember this Clinton quote from 1998: "If Saddam Hussein fails to comply and we fail to act or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop his program of weapons of mass destruction...he will then conclude that he can go right on doing more to build an arsenal of devastating destruction....

Some way, someday, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal."

Do any of those words sound like Clinton thinks Saddam doesn't have an arsenal?

On December 16, 1998, Bill Clinton ordered a strike "to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, and its military capacity to threaten their neighbors.

Their purpose is to protect the national interests of the United States..."

February 17, 1998, Bill Clinton: "Saddam's son-in-law and the chief organizer of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, defected to Jordan."

In President Bush's January 28, 2003 State of the Union he specifically cited the information gathered by the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency and Bill Clinton as a basis for his conclusion that Iraq did indeed have weapons of mass destruction.

In my view, Saddam either hid them or destroyed them prior to the end of months of diplomacy and dithering with the UN.

Maybe he shipped them out of the country - perhaps to Syria's Bekáa Valley.

So if you conclude that Bush, Powell, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Cheney lied, you have to add all these other folks into the list.

More from Clinton: "And I might say UNSCOM inspectors believe that Iraq has actually greatly understated its production."

Of course, Saddam's son-in-law was killed when he returned to Iraq.

Now, I know that everybody on the right said Clinton was using Iraq to distract from his impeachment scandal.

You have a point, but screw it.

President Clinton and the UN relied on intelligence information similar to the information relied on by Bush, folks.

Yet when it was suggested that Clinton acted out of personal reasons to deflect from his criminal offenses, today's Bush critics dismissed that as "politics."

He took effective steps to destroy Saddam Hussein - and for that, he's attacked.


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<font color=#003399>Read About Our OTHER Reasons for Liberating Iraq...</font>

(EIB Alert! WMDs Only ONE Reason for War)

<font color=#003399>Listen to more, as Rush...</font>

(...quotes Bill Clinton making some Bush-like statements on Saddam in the late 90s)

(...talks to two liberals who're trying to rewrite their party's denial of Hussein's WMDs)

(...talks to Jim, who says Powell &amp; Bush lied on Iraq so can't be trusted in N. Korea, Iran)

<font color=#003399>Video, Audio & Text: Bush & Clinton Speeches on Saddam's Weapons Programs...</font>

(CNN: Text of Clinton Statement on Iraq -02.17.98)

(CNN: Clinton demands total access for U.N. arms inspectors -02.17.98)

(CNN: Clinton Speech - Iraq has Abused its Last Chance -12.16.98)

(CNN: Clinton - Strikes Necessary to Stunt Weapons Programs -12.16.98)

(Bush's State of the Union speech -01.28.03)

(Bush Speech to the United Nations -09.12.02)

(White House: President Says Hussein Must Leave Iraq Within 48 Hours -3.17.03)

<font color=#003399>Read the Article...</font>
(FrontPageMag: Democrats for Regime Change: 11.6.02 - Stephen F. Hayes)

Full Article <font color="red"><u>Here</u></font>

[Edith Piaf]

excellent article demonstrate clinton aussi believe sadaam had WMDs. this should quiet those liberal imbeciles

[Sweetpea]

I've been listening to Rush talk about this, and it really is quite funny.
Sooner or later, we will find Hussy's stash of goods. He can't hide them forever.

And I can't wait to see the embarrassment out there when the libs find themselves stepping in doo-doo yet again! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

The ones who are capable of embarassment, that is.