[maica]

bump for truth

[maryz]

I wonder if Bush can get Daschle, et al. on videotape from the Clinton years -- and show them compared to Daschle, et al. today. Too bad Rush doesn't still have his TV show -- this was just the kind of thing he would have done beautifully.

[breakem]

I am a sometime critic of Rush, but he has hit a grand slam today and this is the latest in a string of excellent presentations.

[bert]

I thought Rush was going to say that Dashole favors a change in the American Regime and the elimination of President Bush more than the Iraqi regime and the disposition od Saddam Husein.

I'm certain that's the case.

[rushfreedom]

Other good quotes from 1998

The U.N. Security Council welcomes Iraq's promise to to cooperate with U.N. inspectors, but U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns that in a future crisis, military force might be the only way out.
- The Associated Press, Latest developments in Iraqi crisis. , AP Online, 11-16-1998.


``This is not over until absolute and unconditional compliance is guaranteed and delivered,'' said Blair, speaking outside his Downing Street office.

Blair said there would no hesitation to strike, if Iraq does not deliver on its pledge.

``There will be no warning whatsoever,'' said Blair.
- KEVIN GALVIN Associated Press Writer, Clinton says Iraq must live up to its pledge. , AP Online, 11-15-1998.

I can not believe I forgot all this. What happen after all this? Did inspectors go back in?

[McGruff]

Rush is slamming Dashole today on this topic. I thought it was his original research, but now I see where he got it.

Thanks for posting this, a definite bookmark.

[Hugin]

"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.

All attempts to stall a vote until after the election. Dems will lose votes either way they come down on Iraq. If they support the president, their base will be alienated. If they oppose it they will lose moderate Dems and independents. So it's stall, stall, stall.

[LongsforReagan]

This needs to go mainstream.

[Matchett-PI]

BTTT!! Not only is Rush talking about this article, he used the words, "criminal activity" in the context of talking about, "what has changed???" since 1998 (and before) when we didn't see any of the RINOS (from the Bush #1 Administration) objecting like they are now.

In 1998 Clinton asked for an assault against Iraq. Joining him were the usual DemocRAT suspects Daschle, Gephardt, etal, including RINOS like REPUBLICAN Chuck Hagle. None of them objected or asked for proof --- like they are now???

WHY are they objecting now especially when things have gotten even worse???

The only thing that has changed is that now they know we have someone in the WH who walks the walk and will do what he says he will.

Have these DemocRATS and Rinos been involved in taking money from middle-east types to look the other way when the terrorists have attacked us for decades all over the world??? What are they covering up? I want to know.

[Doug Loss]

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."

Do these things expire? If not, this is an iron-clad permission for us to take Iraq out. No more debate needed! No interpretation of the war on terrorism resolution needed! Of course the Democrats will say that this only applied to their president, not to any old president.

[facedown]

El Rushbo bump.

[Grampa Dave]

Great article. I have bookmarked it.

Whenever one of these whining weasels rats tries to defend Saddamm, we need to send them a copy of this oped.

[ravingnutter]

Hmmmmmm...

On Oct. 9,[1998] 27 senators sent Clinton a letter, initiated by Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI), Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), John McCain (R-AZ), and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), to “express [their] concern over recent developments in Iraq,” especially Iraq’s suspension of cooperation with the U.N.’s weapons inspection program. The letter urges Clinton “to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq’s refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.”

In introducing the letter into the Congressional Record, Levin acknowledged the suffering that economic sanctions have caused the Iraqi people, saying it was “most unfortunate.” He also implicitly acknowledged that the sanctions policy has been a failure, saying that the sanctions were imposed to assure that Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction programs be destroyed and that such destruction be accomplished under international supervision and permanent monitoring,” but that President Saddam Hussain has not complied for more than seven years. Levin and the other signers seemed to be advocating the politician’s prescription for fixing a failed policy: continue with the same policy, but more so.

Signers of the letter, in addition to Levin, Lieberman, McCain, and Hutchison, were Senators Kit Bond (R-MO), John Breaux (D-LA), Alfonse D’Amato (R-NY), Tom Daschle (D-SD), Chris Dodd (D-CN), Pete Domenici (R-NM), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Wendell Ford (D-KY), Chuck Grassley (R-IO), Jesse Helms (R-NC), James Inhofe (R-OK), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Bob Kerrey (D-NE), John Kerry (D-MA), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Dick Lugar (R-IN), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Rick Santorum (R-PA), Arlen Specter (R-PA), and Strom Thurmond (R-SC).

Washington Report

[Rocko]

Bump.

[Wphile]

Daschle is such a bald-faced liar!! Sheesh...I CANNOT STAND THAT MAN!

And this stupid dog-and-pony show up in NY today really pisses me off. They've (the congresscriters) have been off for the entire month of August. They had a short week this week with Monday a holiday and now this!! Criminy, there is boatloads of legislation to get done, appropriations to be made, nominees to be confirmed, etc. and what does the stupid Congress do? They take the day off, head up to New York so they look solemn and serious for the American people. They all make me sick. Get to work you lazy bums!!

[Cincinatus]

As much as I'm enjoying Rush clobbering Daschle et al. for hypocrisy, there is a difference between the situation then and the situation now. In 1998, Senators knew that any "military intervention" Clinton undertook would be limitied to lobbing a smart bomb or two down some Arab's tent or the local aspirin factory. Now, they know that if Dubya goes in to Iraq, it's for keeps -- he's serious and he will kick serious butt. And of course, that will make them look like the craven, whining poltroons that they truly are. Bad show that -- especially what with mid-term elections coming up and all that....

[jigsaw]

I'd love to see Bush give an entire speech to the Congress that is nothing but quotes by Dems supporting a war.

Then at the end of the speech, explain he used only Dem quotes.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Daschle is a Traitor ping.

Great post OEB. I went to lunch seething over Daschle's pu$$y stance of late, turned on Rush and knew immediately what was coming.

These putrid stinking lying hypocritical abortion candidate sub-humans, think that no one will care what their position was a short four years ago. I suppose they think that we are all medicare subsidized takers of prozac whose minds have been turned to mush by all the free medications.

I GOT NEWS FOR THEM.

[Grampa Dave]

Time for some of your great graphic art collection showing the Da$$hole in reality not what the Rat media shows him as.

[Teacher317]

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