< sarcasm > But Clinton destroyed all of the WMDs in this bombing and Bush new there were any WMDs anymore </ sarcasm >
"But Clinton destroyed all of the WMDs in this bombing and Bush new there were any WMDs anymore."
Sadly, I have already heard this excuse used by Bill and other members of the Democrat Party. Fortunately, both Clinton's own Secretary of Defense and several members of the NY Times didn't even accept this premise. For example, it was just days after Bush's 2001 Inauguration that the NY Times, with the help of William Cohen, wrote stories "warning" the incoming Bush administration of the danger we faced from a rearming Saddam Hussein.
In their 1/22/01 headlines, the NYT's reported via Cohen that "Iraq Resumes WMD Activities," as their own reporters, Eric Schmitt and Steven Meyers, reported that "Iraq Rebuilt Weapons Factories." These stories concluded that:
"While officials have previously disclosed that Iraq had rebuilt missile plants destroyed in the 1998 strikes, the Jan. 10 report released by Mr. Cohen was the first public acknowledgment of the resumption of work at suspected chemical and biological plants....Some of Iraq's facilities could be converted fairly quickly to production of chemical weapons," the report said at one point. It went on to warn, "Iraq retains the expertise, once a decision is made, to resume chemical agent production within a few weeks or months, depending on the type of agent."
What disgust me most is listening to these Democrats, and even members of the media, claiming that Bush lied to them about the intelligence...as a way to excuse their reluctant support before the war began. But again, the mediacrats are also lying about this, as many of these stories were written long before Bush was even president. That they can actually believe their own lies that are everywhere in print, reveals a disturbing mentallity about liberalism.