[spinestein]

And just for laughs, this is from the State of the Union Show 1997 by President Clinton....


[Just a few days before my second Inauguration, one of country's best known pastors, Reverend Robert Schuller, suggested that I read Isaiah 58:12. Here's what it says: "Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in." I placed my hand on that verse when I took the oath of office, on behalf of all Americans. For no matter what our differences -- in our faiths, our backgrounds, our politics -- we must all be repairers of the breach.]

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/bc42/speeches/sud97wjc.htm




If this was said by a Republican, it seems likely we'd be told that the president was only killing Muslims in Iraq on behalf of a Christian crusade.

[dayglored]

> Any questions?

One question.

Assume all the statements about Saddam having WMDs at the time of the invasion are true. I believed he had them along with everybody else. Granted, he may have moved some out to Syria, and he may have buried some. But surely, he kept a bunch handy. Why? He saw war coming.

Weapons are to wage war. Offensive and/or defensive war. There's no other purpose for WMDs.

So how come, pushed to the wall, faced with overwhelming probability of his removal from power, if not his death and that of his family, did he not use them against our troops? That's question that troubles me to this day. I can't answer it, and the attempts I've heard so far (we invaded too quickly, he only used a few and we didn't notice, he moved them all out so that he could return to power later, etc.) don't stand out as good enough; the only reason he had them was to use them to stay in power and make trouble.

To me, all other arguments about whether the WMDs existed, how many, where, etc. are subordinate to this: How come Saddam didn't use his WMDs against the invasion, in an all-out effort to save his regime?

[DocRock]

BTTT

[Yaelle]

Saddam's Christian general, what was his name? Sadr? He said that he saw the hollowed out passenger planes used to transport the weapons to Syria.

Saddam had WMD and was working on getting his nuke program running again. It's the truth. There is more evidence that he had them (attacks, witnesses) than that he didn't.

[mtntop3]

An airliner brimming with aviation fuel is a WMD in every sense - as we know all too well after the fact.

Our imaginations oftentimes have a tendency to lag and underestimate those of creative mass murderers.

[PISANO]

Only in a post-Clinton world where Bullsh.t rules could the MSM convince 51% of the nation that BUSH LIED.

WMD did EXIST and he [Saddam] did NOT provide the PROOF MANDATED that they were destroyed......... hence they existed.

Rational thinking and reponsible persons could not believe otherwise.

[april15Bendovr]

"BUTCHER of BASRA" Admits to Iraq's Weapons Program in EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=286