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No, what is really happening here is that the Democrats are not being called out on their selective amnesia about Iraq. For 8 years during the Clinton administration, many Democrats warned of the threat of Saddam Hussein and even sent letters to the President concerned that enough wasn't being done. It wasn't until George Bush came along and did something about Saddam Hussein that they are all upset.

President Bush only did what the Democrats and the UN were too afraid to do themselves; he rid the world of Saddam Hussein, and made the world a safer place.

Yep.

AND A NOTE ABOUT SADDAM'S VICTIMS
Since the 1980s Saddam Hussein has killed about two million people. That's about 10 times more than the number of people killed by Slobodan Milosevic. Clinton used the U.S. Military against Milosevic in the 1990s citing human rights concerns. The lesson we're learning here is that it's OK for a Democratic president to attack a bloody dictator who has killed 200,000 people, but who presents no threat whatsoever to the rest of the world on purely human rights concerns; but it is definitely not OK for a Republican president to use troops to unseat a dictator who has killed two million people, and who may have the weapons needed to kill millions more. Yeah .. I think I get it now. Makes perfect sense to me.

Does Mike Moore know about this? Why isn't he upset about the actions of his buddy Saddam?

Does anybody remember the National Geographic production that aired on PBS back in November 2003 titled "Inside Special Forces"?

Do you remember the last ten minutes or so where the camera crew and SF troops toured a building they had taken that looked like a sophistcated bomb engineering, research and development facility?

Here is a brief review of that segment from:

www.strathlachlan.com/blog/2003/11/an_ounce_of_pre.html

November 06, 2003
An Ounce of Prevention

Last night I caught the tail end of one of the National Geographic Specials on PBS called "Inside Special Forces". I only caught the last 10 minutes or so, but that was enough to illustrate what we are really finding in Iraq.
A group of US Special Forces were tipped off about a former hideout of some Fedayeen Saddam smack dab in the middle of a Baghdad suburb. The outside of the house was enclosed by a wall and the windows all had bars across them. Local residents lived in fear of what might happen to them should they venture through the gates. The locals eventually notified the soldiers in the area when they thought the occupants had fled, and a team of US Special Forces troops were called in.
Inside the US troops found a room on the lower level filled with

explosives,
spools upon spools of wiring,
blasting caps, and
plenty of aluminum tubing to make pipe bombs.

As if this discovery wasn't unsettling enough,

stacks of briefcases and hollowed-out household items like
books,
umbrellas, and
other seemingly harmless objects

were found on the far side of the room. On the surface it appeared as though this might have been just a staging area for bomb making.
Upstairs the search continued and the US Special Forces uncovered a more ominous finding. In amongst

more explosives and
bomb making equipment
they found

manuals and schematics for airport metal detectors.
The soldiers also located

explosives detection equipment and
documents that detailed airport screening procedures.

As it turned out this house was not just a simple ammo depot.
Draw whatever conclusions you want about the motives and purposes of the items found upstairs. But something tells me the house wasn't the former headquarters for Iraq's own Transportation Security Administration. The words "imminent threat" come to mind a bit don't they? Unless of course you're a politician that doesn't fly commercial. Good thing for them no one watches PBS anyway.