Democrats for Regime Change *[Article Rush is talking about today]*

The Weekly Standard ^ | ADVANCE COPY from the September 16, 2002 issue | Stephen F. Hayes

[Teacher317]

I'm just wondering what the GOP's response was to Clinton and Daschle back then...

[jimbo123]

Here is the initial draft of the letter:

September 24, 1998

The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:

We are writing to express our concern over recent developments in Iraq.

Last February, the Senate was working on a resolution supporting military action if diplomacy did not succeed in convincing Saddam Hussein to comply with United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning the disclosure and destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This effort was discontinued when the Iraqi government reaffirmed its acceptance of all relevant Security Council resolutions and reiterated its willingness to cooperate with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the Memorandum of Understanding signed by its Deputy Prime Minister and the United Nations Secretary General.

Despite a brief interval of cooperation, however, Saddam Hussein has failed to live up to his commitments. On August 5, Iraq suspended all cooperation with UNSCOM and the IAEA, except some limited monitoring activity.

As UNSCOM Executive Chairman Richard Butler told us in a briefing for all Senators in March, the fundamental historic reality is that Iraq has consistently sought to limit, mitigate, reduce and in some cases, defeat the Security Council's resolutions by a variety of devices.

We were gratified by the Security Council's action in unanimously passing Resolution 1194 on September 9. By condemning Iraq's decision to suspend cooperation with UNSCOM and IAEA, by demanding that Iraq rescind that decision and cooperate fully with UNSCOM and the IAEA, by deciding not to conduct the sanctions' review scheduled for October 1998 and not to conduct any future such reviews until UNSCOM and the IAEA report that they are satisfied that they have been able to exercise the full range of activities provided for in their mandates, and by acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Security Council has sent an unambiguous message to Saddam Hussein.

We are skeptical, however, that Saddam Hussein will take heed of this message even though it is from a unanimous Security Council. Moreover, we are deeply concerned that without the intrusive inspections and monitoring by UNSCOM and the IAEA, Iraq will be able, over time, to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programs.

In light of these developments, we urge you, after consulting with congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and the 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.

Carl Levin [signature]

Joseph Lieberman [signature]

John McCain [signature]

Kay Bailey Hutchison [signature]

[Teacher317]

Shh! Don't do their thinking for them! ;^)

[ravingnutter]

Forgot to bold John Kerry in my last post as well...and speaking of Kerry, I have a quote from 1998...

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said "everybody who has been involved with the issue of Iraq understands that a day of reckoning has been a long time coming for Saddam Hussein."

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[Oldeconomybuyer]

Can I steal this line: "These putrid stinking lying hypocritical abortion candidate sub-humans"

Please!!!

[CheezyD]

BTT!!!

[Terriergal]

Thanks for the PING!!

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[ravingnutter]

From 1998:

President Clinton ordered a "strong, sustained series of airstrikes" against Iraq on Wednesday in response to Saddam Hussein's continued defiance of U.N. weapons inspectors. U.S. and British forces unleashed a punishing volley of missiles. The attack, which the administration said would last up to four days, began less than 20 hours before the House was scheduled to open a formal impeachment proceeding against Clinton - the first against a president in 130 years. Republican leaders decided to temporarily postpone that debate. Clinton said in a nationally televised address from the Oval Office that the airstrikes were designed to diminish Iraq's ability to produce outlawed nuclear, chemical and biological weapons....

Democrats, who had urged a delay in the vote, leapt to the president's defense. "Saddam Hussein should make no mistake that despite domestic political differences in the United States, the American people and Congress stand firmly behind the defense of our nation's vital interests," Sen. Tom Daschle and Gephardt, the party's top leaders in Congress, said in a statement.

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[BOBTHENAILER]

Can I steal this line: "These putrid stinking lying hypocritical abortion candidate sub-humans"

You sir, may steal it, copy it, expound on it, expand it, rewrite it, amplify it, spread it around the whole wide world and otherwise see fit to use it at will.

I won't even require a UN mandate for you to use it with all necessary force.

I won't even ask the HARD questions like, How are you going to use it and after you do, what's next?

[BOBTHENAILER]

Can I steal this line: "These putrid stinking lying hypocritical abortion candidate sub-humans"

You sir, may steal it, copy it, expound on it, expand it, rewrite it, amplify it, spread it around the whole wide world and otherwise see fit to use it at will.

I won't even require a UN mandate for you to use it with all necessary force.

I won't even ask the HARD questions like, How are you going to use it and after you do, what's next?

[BOBTHENAILER]

Carl Levin [signature]

Thanks for the ammo. This will be used in short order.

[MeekOneGOP]

"What has changed in recent months or years" to justify confronting Saddam, Daschle asked last Wednesday after meeting with President Bush. Dick Gephardt wants to know what a democratic Iraq would look like. Dianne Feinstein wants the Israeli-Palestinian conflict settled first. Bob Graham says the administration hasn't presented anything new. John Kerry complains about, well, everything.

Matters looked different in 1998, when Democrats were working with a president of their own party. Daschle not only supported military action against Iraq, he campaigned vigorously for a congressional resolution to formalize his support. Other current critics of President Bush--including Kerry, Graham, Patrick Leahy, Christopher Dodd, and Republican Chuck Hagel--co-sponsored the broad 1998 resolution: Congress "urges the president to take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." (Emphasis added.)

Daschle said the 1998 resolution would "send as clear a message as possible that we are going to force, one way or another, diplomatically or militarily, Iraq to comply with international law." And he vigorously defended President Clinton's inclination to use military force in Iraq.

President Bush gave Clintoon-Gore the old "Poke in the eye" by winning Arkansas and Tennessee, da$$hole!

Looks like it's time to repeat history and do the same in South Dakota - John Thune winning to take you out of the picture.

Tiny Tommy Da$$hole:
What did he obstruct?
And when did he obstruct it?
Free the Daschle Fifty
http://freedom.house.gov/library/economics/dasch50.asp

House Majority Leader Dick Armey today called upon Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to vote on 50 bills that have passed the House and are stalled in the Senate.

"The American people want action," said Armey. "They don't want political posturing. The Democrat-led Senate has a responsibility to vote on legislation. In fact, it's their job."

They don't call me
Mr. Obstruction for nothing, ya know?

[MeekOneGOP]

Little Tommy Daschle's
Skool Picture! !

[MeekOneGOP]

Democrats for Regime Change
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[goldstategop]

The Democrats' own hero, Bill Clinton pressed for military action and I bet it was to distract attention from you know what that was happening at the time. But it doesn't matter because even though it was for self absorbed political reasons, Clinton established a precedent for the use of force against Saddam Hussein and its right there in black and white and the Rats are trapped by their own support of HIS rhetoric. President Bush isn't acting for such selfish, politically motivated reasons against Iraq. When all the chips are down and push comes to shove, the President can invoke his predecessor in getting ready to roll to construct a parking lot in Baghdad. And the Rats will have to provide the encore music for the coming liberation of Mesopotamia.

[Freemyland]

This kind of stuff is Rush's bread and butter. This is where he is at his best.

[Steely Tom]

Hey Rush!

You killed to day! You killed!

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(steely)

[Jean S]

bump

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[TLBSHOW]

Thats what I thought too! LOL