Thought Quotient

We fought a war in Iraq and all we got was this lousy, liberal cynicism!

So where are the WMD’s? This is a staple of liberal commentary -

like here…

No WMDs were unleashed on our troops or American cities. Because, well, there weren’t any, even though the danger (but not, mind you, the “imminent” danger!) they posed was the major excuse for the war in the first place.

or here…

Where are the WMD?
With each passing day it appears more likely that Saddam Hussein did NOT possess usable weapons of mass destruction, and therefore did not pose an urgent threat to US, regional or international security.

What’s the problem? It’s looks like John Kerry knew where they were back during the Clinton administration. Here are some excerpts from a Kerry speech on the Senate floor on October 10, 1998…

“They raise questions of the most serious nature about the preparedness of the international community to keep its own commitment to force Iraq to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, and the much larger question of our overall proliferation commitment itself.
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For the United States and Britain, an Iraq equipped with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons under the leadership of Saddam Hussein is a threat that almost goes without description, although our current activities seem to call into question whether or not one needs to be reminded of some of that description.
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If the United States and the United Nations retreat in any way on Iraq, if we are prepared to accept something less than their full compliance with the international inspection requirement that has been in place now for 7 years, it will be difficult to understand how we will have advanced the cause of proliferation in any of those other areas that I just mentioned.
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I would point out also that there are experts on Iraq, those in the inspections team, those at the U.N. and elsewhere in our international community, who are very clear that Saddam Hussein’s first objective is not to lift the sanctions. His first objective is to keep Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program–that will come ahead of all else.
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It is about eliminating Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction–chemical, biological, and nuclear
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In recent conversations that I had with Chairman Butler, he confirmed that Saddam Hussein has only this one goal–keeping his weapons of mass destruction capability
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In February, when we had an armada positioned in the gulf, President Clinton said that `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.’ “

Bush and Kerry Divided on Most Issues

This election will be one an easy one for liberals and conservatives. The distance between where President Bush and John Kerry stand on the issues couldn’t be greater. We will be studying and analyzing this in the coming months as the election debate heats up.

Kerry says flatly he’ll only nominate Supreme Court justices who agree with his views in favor of abortion rights.

Contrast this with what John Kerry said on the Senate Floor on January 10, 1995…

“As we changed from the majority to the minority, the new majority came in and, as is perfectly appropriate, they did a great deal of new hiring. I have no problem with that. I have been here in the majority and then the minority, and I have gone back and forth four times. I know a lot of staff changes with that. But I was surprised by news reports that the Republican Study Committee required prospective congressional employees to take an ideological litmus test, not so they could be hired but they had to take it before they could even be listed with a placement service.

Mr. President, I think Senators know me well enough to know this is not partisan. I would object to this whether Republicans or Democrats did it. I do not know whether these questionnaires are legal under Federal laws or the rules of the Senate, but they smack of McCarthyism while I was a teenager during the fifties. I know enough about McCarthyism to know how destructive to human beings and the sense of the public comity loyalty oaths can be.”

Here Kerry is saying this kind of litmus test is practically McCarthyism! Liberals’ position on these kinds of issues all hinge on if they are in the majority and in a position of power or if they are in the minority.