I urge all participating FReepers and others who may read this thread, to get active in some way. Call or email your favorite talk radio and/or TV hosts. Call C-SPAN if you have the patience. Write letters to the editors of your local newspapers, and write or email your local TV news directors. Through any local politically oriented club or organization you might belong to, organize an effort to put some of this info on flyers and hand them out in your neighborhoods. Make sure you share this info with your extended family and circle of friends. Spread the word as best you can.
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.
You know, we don't have to sit around and just wring our collective hands at the Dem/Leftist antics, or wait for action from the top down. We can generate a wave of outrage from the bottom up, right here from the grassroots.
Should also put a link on that comprehensive thread started to collect links to such material, but I don't recall the title. Do you know what it is?
Yes we can, and will. Great work....it will be used in letters to the editor.
Reminds me of what fishermen call a "chum line". When you're after big fish, you leave a trail of little goodies (for fish it's bait, for liberals it's discovering something to distort into news) for them to taste and follow to their ultimate destruction.
How do I know it'll work?
It's worked on fish for generations and Democrats are the nearest land creatures with the intelligence of your average fish.
Flipper is a mammal...not a fish. I'm talking carp, lamprey, shark (a fish with law degree and a taste for blood), grunion (they wash themselves up on shore), et al.
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)
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?