http://www.glennbeck.com/news/01302004.shtml
“One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.”
- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998 | Source
“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.”
- President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998 | Source
“We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.”
- Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998 | Source
“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.”
- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998 | Source
“[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq’s refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.”
Letter to President Clinton.
- (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 9, 1998 | Source
“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998 | Source
“Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.”
- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999 | Source
Because it will help the democRATs?
In terms of direct links to 9/11, there were indeed links to terrorists who linked either directly or indirectly to global al Qaeda (though, to the anti-Bush crowd, what rises to the level of a legitimate link would have to be something along the lines of a Ba'athist intelligence officer making love to Osama bin Laden in the presence of George Tenet, Robert Mueller, and film crews from the big three television networks).
Probably because even the administration buys this version. They just say it was faulty intel, not a lie. But they admit they were wrong. The problem with all those quotes is after 1998, the inspectors went back in. As I recall, the inspectors were in Iraq when the war started. The DEM position was to use inspectors.
Still, Bush pulled the trigger, not the Clinton Administration.
9/11 Commission
Statement No.15
Overview of the enemy
Bin Ladin also explored possible cooperation with Iraq during his time in Sudan, despite his opposition to Hussein’s secular regime. Bin Ladin had in fact at one time sponsored anti-Saddam Islamists in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Sudanese, to protect their own ties with Iraq, reportedly persuaded Bin Ladin to cease this support and arranged for contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda. A senior Iraqi intelligence officer reportedly made three visits to Sudan, finally meeting Bin Ladin in 1994. Bin Ladin is said to have requested space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but Iraqapparently never responded. There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda also occurred after Bin Ladin had returned to Afghanistan, but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship. Two senior Bin Ladin associates have adamantly denied that any ties existed between al Qaeda and Iraq. We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States. Whether Bin Ladin and his organization had roles in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and the thwarted Manila plot to blow up a dozen U.S. commercial aircraft in 1995 remains a matter of substantial uncertainty.
Of course a lie never "becomes the truth", that's just another part of the big lie, but the MSM / Democratic Party / kook fringe have applied this assiduously, for many decades.
Ping...thought you might be interested in this thread.
we and our coalition partners acted on the best intelligence we had available at the time — and intelligence collection and processing is an art, not a science.
This is not true. French intelligence and the CIA had flipped the Iraqi Foreign Minister, who backed up other claims that the WMD programs had ended. Some of that "best intelligence" was proved fraudulent even before the invasion began.
If anyone wants the actual pages that clearly show glaring evidence of "links" between pre-invasion Iraq and terrorists (and remember, after 9/11, America went to war against terrorists and those who would harbor them anywhere in the world)
I thought we went to war with Al-Qaeda and any terrorists who directly threatened us. Iraq's support for various other thugs is disgusting, but not relevant to American interests. Of course, the falsehood that Iraq was directly connected to the 9/11 attacks was conveniently used and abused by hawks to rile up the American people and motivate the soldiers. The hawks might not have invented that useful falsehood, but they never particularly cared to refute it.
Because with the libs, they will use a lie even when the truth would better serve them. It;s in their nature. Juat look at the Klintoons!