"If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program."
Bill Clinton
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/17/transcripts/clinton.iraq/
"For example, Iraq revised its nuclear declarations four times within just 14 months and it has submitted six different biological warfare declarations, each of which has been rejected by UNSCOM.
In 1995, Hussein Kamal, Saddam's son-in-law, and the chief organizer of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, defected to Jordan. He revealed that Iraq was continuing to conceal weapons and missiles and the capacity to build many more." Bill Clinton
Originally posted by Time-ImmemorialJust lieing about it is dishonest, but hardly surprising from a professional politician. What makes it so bad is that President Bill Clinton told the American people that there were WMDs in Iraq, and used that as a pretense for invading the country in 1993, deposing Saddam Hussein, occupying the country for 8 years, and in the process destabilized Iraq for years to come. Oh, and his lie killed ~4,500 American soldiers, wounded countless more, and cost the American treasury over $1 trillion.
No he just lied about WMD
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Just lieing about it is dishonest, but hardly surprising from a professional politician. What makes it so bad is that President Bill Clinton told the American people that there were WMDs in Iraq, and used that as a pretense for invading the country in 1993, deposing Saddam Hussein, occupying the country for 8 years, and in the process destabilized Iraq for years to come. Oh, and his lie killed ~4,500 American soldiers, wounded countless more, and cost the American treasury over $1 trillion.
So why is the common narrative "Bush lied about WMD" when clearly it was Bill Clinton who started the lie about WMD?
Originally posted by Time-ImmemorialBush only lied about the WMD, he didn't deploy troops to Iraq. Clinton did that. Both are awful for being such meany liar heads, but only one of them sent combat troops to invade the country and in the process right f*ck shit up for so many undeserving American families.
So why is the common narrative "Bush lied about WMD" when clearly it was Bill Clinton who started the lie about WMD?
That president would be Clinton, of course.