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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Jul 20 2003, 02:30 PM
I personally was alive when the President, the Secretarys of State and Defense, any number of intellectuals and intelligence officials, and the heads-of-state of a number of our allies lied to get us into a war, and lied to keep us in one - so I don't find it unreasonable to suggest that the current occupants of those offices could do so.
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PD,
I'm not saying it's not impossible the admin has lied about WMD. I'm saying its not clear and quite possibly not true at all. The belief that Iraq has had WMD's did not begin with the administration of George Bush. Saddam had such weapons in the early 1990s for sure.
Clinton bombed Iraq in 1998 and said "Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors". Did George Bush lie in 2002 and send it back in time to Bill Clinton in 1998? I don't see how anyone can forget that all along there has been a strong assumption that Saddam has such programs. It is not just intelligence which has suggested so but also the behavior of Saddam himself.
I really liked Clinton. It was Clinton who said "If we turn our backs on (Saddam's) defiance, the credibility of U.S. power as a check against Saddam will be destroyed" He also said "The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government -- a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people"
Clinton's actions were a continuation of the policy of the previous administration and Bush's were a continuation of the one previous to his. There is little discontinuity.
The tale is not yet told.