I agree. The moment Saddam started violating the No-Fly zones and shooting at our pilots should've been enough to rescind the cease-fire. Combined with his continual non-adherence to UN weapons inspector demands (especially in 1998) should've wrought severe consequences.
What's so disgusing about the Democrats is that 2-days after Bush's Inauguration, William Cohen wrote an editorial for the NY Times (in conjunction with the Carnegie Endowment for Peace) warning Bush about Saddam's reconstitution of WMDs.
In the editorial Cohen even sites how Clinton's 1998 bombing failed to remove the threat since his intel showed many of these facitilities being rebuilt...especially the one at Fullujah. I always laugh when I hear Clinton claim his 1998 bombing removed the WMD threat...when his own Sec. of Defense said something completely different.
Thanks, cwb. As the mother of a soldier who served in Iraq from the very beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and stood vigil before and after with the news on 24/7, I find it appalling how so many "talking heads" of the MSM, and others as well, seem to never mention the first, and foremost reason we and our allies went into Iraq. The MSM and the Dems managed to change the subject once the war started, and even Fox News let them get away with it! We didn't have to prove a damn thing with regards to WMD or Saddam's relationship with terrorists in order to justify Operation Iraq Freedom!
As for Cohen, Clinton and the rest of the liars.....well, I can't say what I really want to say, but suffice to say, "bite me you lying bastards".