WHAT THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT SAID ABOUT IRAQ


The President on Saddam Hussein. Before the invasion:

"If he refuses or continues to evade his obligations through more tactics of delay and deception, he and he alone will be to blame for the consequences. … Now, let’s imagine the future. What if he fails to comply, and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction…? Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you, he’ll use the arsenal. And I think every one of you who’s really worked on this for any length of time believes that, too."

The Vice President on Saddam Hussein. Before the invasion:

"If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He’s already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons. He poison-gassed his own people. He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors. This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people. So this is a way to save lives and to save the stability and peace of a region of the world that is important to the peace and security of the entire world."

The President was William Jefferson Clinton, and the Vice President was Albert Gore.

Why haven't they been subpoenaed to testify before one of the committees looking into the pre-war intelligence gathering? The democratic rallying-cry is that all of the above is blatantly false, nothing more than carefully crafted lies, and that from these lies we were led into a bogus war.

Answers, anyone? Senator Reid? Senator Kennedy? Senator Kerry?

So they get away with it because boys will be boys and they were just trying to divert attention away from Willy's Oval-Office-Hummers?

I stand corrected.