Why we are at war

[jyro]

Iraq Liberation Act of 1998

President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law October 31, 1998

Bill Clinton: "The policies and actions of the Saddam Hussein regime continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, as well as to regional peace and security." "The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at home. I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due to Iraq's history or its ethnic or sectarian make-up. Iraqis deserve and desire freedom like everyone else. The United States looks forward to a democratically supported regime that would permit us to enter into a dialogue leading to the reintegration of Iraq into normal international life."

Bob Kerrey: "This bill, when passed and signed into law, is a clear commitment to a U.S. policy replacing the Saddam Hussein regime and replacing it with a transition to democracy. This bill is a statement that America refuses to coexist with a regime which has used chemical weapons on its own citizens and on neighboring countries, which has invaded its neighbors twice without provocation, which has still not accounted for its atrocities committed in Kuwait, which has fired ballistic missiles into the cities of three of its neighbors, which is attempting to develop nuclear and biological weapons, and which has brutalized and terrorized its own citizens for thirty years. I don't see how any democratic country could accept the existence of such a regime, but this bill says America will not."

John Kerry: "The risks in leaving Saddam in power are so great, that, if necessary, the US should get rid of him itself."

Joe Biden: "No one should doubt for a moment the resolve of the United States to respond with force, if necessary, to Iraq’s continued flagrant violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions."

President Bush turned those words into action. A number of Democrats who voted for the Iraq Liberation Act, including Kerry, are now critical of President Bush for doing precisely what they said at the time they wished the Clinton administration would do.

[docbnj]

The Vietnam analogy DOES hold true: the war is just, and Kerry and his ilk are now undermining the effort, and getting ready once again to betray America.

Flip-flopping is not just an embarrassment for him: it could be fatal for us.

[Physicist]

President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law October 31, 1998

Hey, look! What a coinky-dink!

Think Clinton looked out across the Ellipse at the March For Justice, and decided to do something for America, for a change?