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