[CyberAnt]

Did I miss something, or was there NO mention of Bill Clinton’s involvement in wanting to go after Saddam ..??

We know there was, because Rush was playing the audio of Clinton’s statement .. but there’s nothing about him in this article.

Should I be surprised ..?????????????????

[Steve_Seattle]

"Did I miss something, or was there NO mention of Bill Clinton’s involvement in wanting to go after Saddam ..??"

There is a great deal of amnesia on that point, even among conservatives. The facts are that - even late in his presidency - Clinton repeatedly warned about the danger posed by Saddam and his WMDs, and that the decade-long sanctions program against Iraq was claimed to have taken as many as 400,000 Iraqi lives, mostly children, causing increasing international calls to have the sanctions lifted.

Yet there was considerable evidence that most of those Iraqi deaths were deliberately caused by Saddam precisely with the goal of having the sanctions lifted. THIS was the situation that Bush inherited, closely followed by 9/11.

Bush was faced with an Iraqi regime that was so evil it sacrificed hundreds of thousands of its own citizens to defy internationally-approved economic sanctions, and which was about to ramp-up its WMD programs ASAP when the sanctions were lifted.

[Does so]

Did I miss something, or was there NO mention of Bill Clinton’s involvement in wanting to go after Saddam ..?? We know there was, because Rush was playing the audio of Clinton’s statement .. but there’s nothing about him in this article. Should I be surprised ..?????????????????

I heard that on Rush, and wondered why I hadn't recalled Bill Clinton's mention of WMDs ever before. Good ammo against the Obammunists.