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WARNING: Gathering WMD storm a crock. See what Clinton told nation in 1998...
CNN AllPolitics.com archives ^ | 6/2/03 (from 12/98 speech) | Bill Clinton

Posted on 06/02/2003 6:14:58 PM PDT by Wolfstar

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Before anyone goes too far down the road of trying to bring down either the Bush or Blair administrations over questions about where the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction are, a short detour into recent history is in order.

CLINTON: Good evening.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1998; bush; clinton; iraq; notagainandagain; wmd; x42
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To: Howlin
Thanx.
41 posted on 06/03/2003 5:14:17 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: Wolfstar
Great documentation. Of course that was the rats then. Below is how they are now:
42 posted on 06/03/2003 5:23:54 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Can anyone ever remember the NY Slimes printing a truthful story? I can't!)
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To: Wolfstar
Here is an excellent thread/oped by Daniel Pipes on this issue:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/922123/posts

IRAQ'S WEAPONS & THE ROAD TO WAR
New York Post ^ | 6/03/03 | DANIEL PIPES
43 posted on 06/03/2003 5:30:51 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Can anyone ever remember the NY Slimes printing a truthful story? I can't!)
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To: Wolfstar
And now that we know more of Saddams's regimes work in Iraq, it is clear how inefective Clinton was, and his obvious goal on the eve of his impeachment vote was....
44 posted on 06/03/2003 5:34:27 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican (|:-)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
I see twofold out of this:

1) That the liberals are lying again, when they fault Bush's decision to liberate Iraq, and

2) What Clinton's real goal was on the eve of his impeachment, considering his ineffectiveness and ignorant approach to randomly dropping bombs on Iraq.

Did Clinton think Saddams regime would just give up by getting lobbed a few bombs? I think we saw the truth in Iraqi Freedom.

45 posted on 06/03/2003 5:38:38 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican (|:-)
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To: Howlin
Thank you Howlin!
46 posted on 06/03/2003 5:53:30 AM PDT by MeekMom ((HUGE Ann Coulter Fan!!!) (Life-long Python Addict))
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To: Wolfstar
Typical. The Dem double-standard strikes again.
47 posted on 06/03/2003 5:54:50 AM PDT by rintense (Thank you to all our brave soldiers, past and present, for your faithful service to our country.)
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To: Howlin
thanks Howlin!
48 posted on 06/03/2003 6:28:02 AM PDT by iceskater
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To: Lady In Blue
Big Bump!

Let's Roll!
49 posted on 06/03/2003 7:05:50 AM PDT by blackie
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To: Howlin
Absence of proof, is not proof of absence.
50 posted on 06/03/2003 8:45:49 AM PDT by Search4Truth (When a man lies, he murders part of the world.)
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To: nutmeg
Thanks for the heads up!
52 posted on 06/03/2003 9:37:08 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Agape
Like how do we know for sure that from 1998-2001, Saddam *didn't* disarm?

We didn't. But under the terms of the 1991 cease-fire, Saddam was supposed to destroy all WMDs and provide documentation to verify the destruction. He failed repeatedly to do so. Recall that even the French believed he still had them.

53 posted on 06/03/2003 9:40:30 AM PDT by dirtboy (someone kidnapped dirtboy and replaced him with an exact replica)
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To: Almondjoy
Bill Clinton DID attack Iraq in December 1998. He just didn't bother to follow through. His sound and fury was empty rhetoric and empty gestures. George W. Bush, on the other hand, means exactly what he says and follows through on what he undertakes.
54 posted on 06/03/2003 10:26:59 AM PDT by Wolfstar (If we don't re-elect GWB, who is a truly great President, we're NUTS!)
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To: Michael.SF.
You do not seem to understand the Left. It does not matter what Bill Clinton said or did. They (the Left) know that what matters is what they can make people believe today.

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Right you are, Michael. Let's move on.
55 posted on 06/03/2003 10:37:40 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Bush/Cheney '04/Condi '08)
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To: Wolfstar
Thanks for reminding us of what liars and doubletalkers the Rats are.
56 posted on 06/03/2003 10:38:26 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Bush/Cheney '04/Condi '08)
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To: TBall
...but it just feels dirty to use arguments made from the man who finds an angle on is.

Understood. However, the point of this post was not to use Clinton's arguments, but to remind everyone that the entire senior level of the Clinton administration said Hussein had WMD, that they were a threat to the U.S. and the world, and that the U.S. needed to take aggressive action to eliminate that threat.

Above all, the point is that the United States Senate and President Bill Clinton set in motion regime change in Iraq as the policy of the United States government. But where Clinton failed to follow through on all his sound and fury, President George W. Bush took constructive action.

57 posted on 06/03/2003 10:42:45 AM PDT by Wolfstar (If we don't re-elect GWB, who is a truly great President, we're NUTS!)
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To: nutmeg
Thanks for the flag, girlfriend.
58 posted on 06/03/2003 10:43:50 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Bush/Cheney '04/Condi '08)
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To: Brad's Gramma
Perhaps because it was a Clinton speech, it didn't disappear from the archives. I did a Google search and found it that way. Delicious irony that it comes from a CNN site, isn't it. This way, no one so inclined can say it was doctored in any way.
59 posted on 06/03/2003 10:48:20 AM PDT by Wolfstar (If we don't re-elect GWB, who is a truly great President, we're NUTS!)
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To: Wolfstar
There is another speech from February 17, 1998, on the CNN archives that also belies the current Rat position. Some Freeper posted it in February of this year.
60 posted on 06/03/2003 10:48:44 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Bush/Cheney '04/Condi '08)
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