[Shermy]

Richard Perle wasn't working for the Clinton administration -- if he had been, there is reason to be suspicious that the U.S. invasion of Iraq would have occurred in the mid-1990s.

So you're saying the invasion wouldn't occur if Perle didn't exist?

Any way Clinton did try to create the environment to support an invasion. His initiative failed. And he didn't have the gumption of 9/11 to spice up the motivation to finish Gulf War I.

[Alberta's Child]

So you're saying the invasion wouldn't occur if Perle didn't exist?

That's an interesting question. Probably yes -- assuming someone else with connections in the U.S. government had undertaken the 1996 effort with the Netanyahu government in israel.

Any way Clinton did try to create the environment to support an invasion. His initiative failed. And he didn't have the gumption of 9/11 to spice up the motivation to finish Gulf War I.

How did Clinton try to "create the environment" to support an invasion? And are you saying that the Bush administration has used 9/11 as an excuse to invade Iraq?