IRAQ/WMD: What did Clinton & Senate Dems know & when(HYPOCRISY=DEMS; SEE FOR YOURSELF)

Library of Congress ^ | 7/19/03 | Various Senators

[CyberAnt]

I tend to agree with you! Basically, because I recently remembered the admin saying that we (the President's supporters), should not be worried if his numbers started to drop very low for awhile. Did they know this was going to happen ..?? If they did ... this might prove your statement.

[FairOpinion]

Terrific job! We need to keep hammering on this. The Democrats are acting and talking as if nobody ever mentioned Iraq and WMD in the same sentence before Bush.

Ping to backhoe -- definitely to be included in your collection on Iraq's WMD

[CGVet58]

excellent research! keep it comin...

[ladyinred]

This is priceless Wolfstar! What hypocrites. I will start a campaign with the info you have so kindly provided in my local paper etc. Thanks so much!

[gov_bean_ counter]

The old Dem playbook doesn't allow for the fact that everything they have said on the record for the past many years has been preserved for time and memorium. And of course the old media wouldn't go out and find it. However, the new media, the citizen reporters will. Things will never be the same.

[#3Fan]

True, and good post. :^)

[Wolfstar]

Thanks, Peach. People don't realize sometimes that they can be activists from the comfort of their own homes, if they are so inclined. Letters, emails, phone calls — all are very low-cost methods that take very little time. For those who don't mind a bit more active "activism," so to speak, getting involved in a local political club or HQ on a volunteer basis can be very effective. There's much we can do.

[Wolfstar]

Keep it coming.

Will do. Next up will be similar material from 2001 and 2002. I'm more than happy to research the material, post it here on FR, and trust my brother and sister Freepers to do useful things with it.

[Wolfstar]

Hi, "Ladyinred." Astonishing when gathered together like this, isn't it. Believe it or not, there's plenty more where that info came from (the Congressional Record). The above wealth of quotes was culled from over 60 MS Word pages I copied from just a few entries in the 1998 Record. Could easily have come up with more just by reading further in the list of entries I found on Iraq for that year, but then this thread would be miles long, LOL!

[Wolfstar]

Things will never be the same.

I'm counting on it. More to the point, I believe the nation's future depends on it.

[Wolfstar]

Thanks. Of course, to the Dems/Leftists, what they say "today" is what counts. Yesterday never happened, but just in case someone finds out it did, then they spin a different meaning to their words than they originally intended. "It depends on what the meaning of the word IS, is."

[Iowa Granny]

Well, for goodness sakes. Look at this.

[Wolfstar]

Iowa Granny, your tag line is hysterically funny! Absolutely love your sense of humor.

[Miss Marple]

What excellent work! I am going to use this, you can bet!

[Spunky]

"Call, write or email your congress-critter and senator — especially if your senator happens to be one of those quoted here — and express your own outrage at the crystal-clear hypocrisy of the Democrats.

Wolfstar, thank you for all the information you have brought us with this thread. My senator (Patty Murray, Washington State) wasn't one of those you quoted though (because you were working on 1998) so I went on a hunt and found the below link with lots of quotes from various Democrats.

Here is what my senator said;
"Over the years, Iraq has worked to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. During 1991 - 1994, despite Iraq's denials, U.N. inspectors discovered and dismantled a large network of nuclear facilities that Iraq was using to develop nuclear weapons. Various reports indicate that Iraq is still actively pursuing nuclear weapons capability. There is no reason to think otherwise. Beyond nuclear weapons, Iraq has actively pursued biological and chemical weapons.U.N. inspectors have said that Iraq's claims about biological weapons is neither credible nor verifiable. In 1986, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran, and later, against its own Kurdish population. While weapons inspections have been successful in the past, there have been no inspections since the end of 1998. There can be no doubt that Iraq has continued to pursue its goal of obtaining weapons of mass destruction." -- Patty Murray, October 9, 2002

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction." -- Bob Graham, December 2002

"I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." -- John F. Kerry, Oct 2002

The above quotes are from this site.
If The Bush Administration Lied About WMD, So Did These People (Updated)

[Iowa Granny]

Absolutely love your sense of humor.

Well,,, it really wasn't ment to be funny. It's just one of the "Truisms of Life" I'm trying to pass on to the Younger Generation.

[Iowa Granny]

If you don't have time to read this, have someone else read it, and brief you on it.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Sept. 29, 1998, Trent LOTT: [ED. NOTE: Lott introduces the bill that, when later passed, becomes the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.]

http://www.iraqwatch.org/perspectives/cfsp-00-f-6.htm

NIX TO BLIX: MAN WHO CERTIFIED IRAQ AS NON-NUCLEAR IS UNLIKELY TO FIND -- OR EVEN TO SEEK -- SADDAM'S HIDDEN WEAPONS

Security Council's Choice is Sure Sign of End of 'Containment' Center for Security Policy SECURITY FORUM No. 00-F 6 27 January 2000 ...The second has been the failure to implement Congress's Iraq Liberation Act - which was supposed to fund the overthrow of the dictator by native opposition groups. President Bill Clinton signed the 1998 act which was supposed to invest $97 million in this project. Apparently only $20,000 has been disbursed to the opposition groups - enough to buy some basic office supplies. The London office of the Iraqi National Congress, the main democratic opposition group, shut down at the end of last year. All this dithering and incompetence has enabled Saddam to replace his bombast after the Gulf War with a credible claim to have rolled back allied achievements then. If anyone still thinks Saddam will be content just with that, they will be deluding themselves

hmmmm, where did that money go?

[Calpernia]

Ok. I'm with you. What do we do?

[Calpernia]

Ignore post #39. That wasn't for this thread. (Multi browser issue syndrome)