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Clinton never went to war with Iraq?

I suppose that would be news to Bill Clinton who atuhorized Operation Desert Fox in 1998

let's take a closer look...

In December 1998, Bill Clinton authorized the SecDef to take the U.S. to war against Iraq. The formal language of the mission Clinton approved was:

To strike military and security targets in Iraq that contribute to Iraq's ability to produce, store, maintain and deliver weapons of mass destruction.

Now, that's odd right? Since "everyone knows" father Saddam never had any WMD Yet for some reason Oliver's hero signed off on a mission with the stated goal:

to degrade Saddam Hussein's ability to make and to use weapons of mass destruction. To diminish Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war against his neighbors. To demonstrate to Saddam Hussein the consequences of violating international obligations.

Well maybe Clinton was too busy fumbling with his belt buckle to have read the authorization for war he gave to SecDef. Bill Cohen. Maybe Cohen was confused. Let's go to the Pentagon on the night Operation Desert Fox began when Cohen said:

President Clinton's decision to strike Iraq has clear military goals. We want to degrade Saddam Hussein's ability to make and to use weapons of mass destruction. We want to diminish his ability to wage war against his neighbors. And we want to demonstrate the consequences of flouting international obligations.

Saddam Hussein has been an outlaw for some time. In the 1980s he used chemical weapons against Iran and against his own Kurdish minority. In 1990 he invaded Kuwait. In 1991 he fired SCUD missiles at his neighbors. At the end of the Gulf War the United Nations Security Council demanded that Iraq fully disclose and dismantle its program to build deadly biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. But Saddam has used a combination of denials, deceptions and delays to evade Security Council mandates.

At nearly every turn Iraq has chosen obstruction over openness, and confrontation over cooperation.

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