October 1998:Senate Democrats Signed Letter Urging Clinton To Attack Saddam Over WMDs

Rush Limbaugh Radio Show ^ | October 9, 1998 | Senate Democrats

[Lady In Blue]

Before you even read this piece, I want you to open a new e-mail and send the link to everyone in your address book. Yes, it's that big - and it's the kind of news you never would have heard about without the so-called new media. I've posted here a letter from the Senate Committee on Armed Services to President Bill Clinton on October 9, 1998. It reminds the president of the February resolution authorizing military force if Saddam failed to comply with UN Security Council resolutions "concerning the disclosure and destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."

June 5, 2003
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." You can see who signed the letter in the attacked copy, but among them are the following Senate Democrats: Levin, Lieberman, Lautenberg, Dodd, Kerrey, Feinstein, Mikulski, Daschle, Breaux, Johnson, Inouye, Landrieu, Ford and Kerry.

I guess this letter has to be a forgery - either that or the senators who signed the letter must be lying because Clinton wanted to bomb Iraq to distract from impeachment. If you liberals are to be consistent on this, that's what you have to say. This letter doesn't leave a grain of doubt (neither do Clinton's speeches from the era, which we've posted here), as to whether or not Saddam had and sought these weapons. Many of these same people are out there mindlessly parroting the mantra that President Bush lied about WMDs, made up intelligence data and dragged the nation into war under false pretenses.

Yet they are on record urging the use of force based on what? The very intelligence data they now say is total B.S. manufactured by the White House! Not one of them called it a fake at the time. In fact, they were ready to go to war because the information on Saddam's weapons scared the quorum out of them. You would not be told this before the EIB Network came along, and started doing the job the mainstream press used to do in the old days. The left thinks they can still get away with burying the past and changing what they believe from one day to the next, because they have all the news sources in their back pocket. But they can't - not anymore, not with us here.

[Lady In Blue]

Rush is at it again! hehehe!

[Graewoulf]

Ping.

[Lady In Blue]

I know, I guess I'll never learn! hahahaha!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks!

This really nails the Demoncrats!

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[FairOpinion]

Bravo to Rush for finding it and to you for posting it here.

I think some conservative newspaper should publish it on its front page.

[JohnHuang2]

Baloney! Bush was manipulating CIA evidence even before he became President! Bring back Saddam, and apologize to him! hehehe, j/k ;)

[malia]

--"I think some conservative newspaper should publish it on its front page.

Great idea!!! Please name a few for me and I will get right on it.

Missed Rush today, which I try hard not to - because I learn something every time I listen.

[Salvation]

**Don't you understand? Only Democratic presidents are allowed to authorize attacks! Not Bush! He's baaaaad!**

Tom Daschle: "I am very disappointed about that."

[FairOpinion]

"Great idea!!! Please name a few for me and I will get right on it."

I know what you mean, we don't have a great number of them.

I could think of The Washington Times...
and of course on the net WorldNetDaily, Townhall.com, which I guess aren't papers, but news sources on the web.

[TexKat]

The National Security Archives

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Between Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, and the commencement of military action in January 1991, then President George H.W. Bush raised the specter of the Iraqi pursuit of nuclear weapons as one justification for taking decisive action against Iraq. In the classified National Security Directive he signed on January 15, 1991, authorizing the use of force to expel Iraq from Kuwait, he identified Iraqi use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against allied forces as an action that would lead the U.S. to seek the removal of Saddam Hussein from power.(1)

In the aftermath of Iraq's defeat, the U.S.-led, U.N. coalition was able to force Iraq to agree to an inspection and monitoring regime, intended to insure that Iraq dismantled its WMD programs and did not take actions to reconstitute them. The means of implementing the relevant U.N. resolutions was the U.N. Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM). That inspection regime continued until December 16, 1998 - although it involved interruptions, confrontations, and Iraqi attempts at denial and deception - when UNSCOM withdrew its staff from Iraq in the face of Iraqi refusal to cooperate.

Subsequent to George W. Bush's assumption of the presidency in January 2001, the U.S. made it clear that it could not accept what had become the status quo with respect to Iraq - a country ruled by Saddam Hussein and free to attempt to reconstitute its assorted weapons of mass destruction programs. As part of their campaign against the status quo, which included the clear threat of the eventual use of military force against Iraq, the U.S. and Britain published documents and provided briefings detailing Iraq's WMD programs and its attempts to deceive other nations about its WMD activities.

As a result of the U.S. and British campaign, and after prolonged negotiations between the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and other U.N. Security Council members, the U.N. declared that Iraq must accept even more intrusive inspections than under the earlier inspection regime - to be carried out by the U.N. Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - or face "serious consequences." Iraq agreed to accept the U.N. requirement and inspections resumed in late November 2002. On December 7, 2002, Iraq submitted a 12,000-page declaration, which claimed that it had no current WMD programs. Intelligence analysts from the United States and other nations immediately began to scrutinize the document, and senior U.S. officials quickly rejected the claims.

The documents presented in this electronic briefing book include the major unclassified U.S. and British assessments of Iraqi WMD programs, the reports of the IAEA and UNSCOM covering the final period prior to the 1998 departure and the period since November 27, 2002, the transcript of a key speech by President George W. Bush, a recently released statement on U.S. policy towards combating WMD, the transcript of and slides for Secretary Powell's presentation to the U.N. on February 5, 2003, and documents from the 1980s and 1990s concerning various aspects of Iraqi WMD activities.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this!

[Grampa Dave]

Of course that was when the top Rat was president. Now this what those same Rat senators are whining about as shown by Registered"

[Victoria Delsoul]

You would not be told this before the EIB Network came along, and started doing the job the mainstream press used to do in the old days. The left thinks they can still get away with burying the past and changing what they believe from one day to the next, because they have all the news sources in their back pocket. But they can't - not anymore, not with us here.

Woohoo!!! Go Rush go!

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks! I think it does too. I haven't heard anybody else mention this letter. I sure hope Fox does,eventually.

[Lady In Blue]

That would be great wouldn't it?! I sure hope it does. Ever since I heard Rush talk about this letter a few days ago,I keep wondering which senator or aide leaked it to him? hehehe!

[Lady In Blue]

I know! Can't they see that?!(sarcasm off)! hehehe!

[Lady In Blue]

Excellent! Thanks!

[Lady In Blue]

You're welcome,Grampa!