Al Gore expresses concerns about Saddam Hussein’s nuclear ambitions and ties to terrorism. He also blames Bush Sr. and Reagan for not demonizing Saddam Hussein enough.
Bill Clinton explains why a regime change in Iraq was absolutely necessary.
An Iraqi man takes a moonbat to task for playing the role of the useful idiot.
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Al Gore said that Saddam had a secret weapons program because, at the time, Saddam did have a secret weapons program, which he didn’t get rid of until one of his top minions defected in the mid 1990’s. I strongly recommend you read The Bomb in My Garden, by Dr. Mahdi Obeidi (Saddam’s chief nuclear scientist) for the whole fascinating inside story.
As for Clinton, remember that the weapons inspectors had been rendered unable to do their job by Saddam’s non-cooperation. Bush attacked even after Saddam let the inspectors back in, even after the weapons inspectors were again able to do their jobs.
However, none of that has anything to do with whether the Bush administration lied. Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction. He did not have WMD programs. He did, technically, have the information necessary to restart those programs, but he had apparently forgotten about it (Obeidi buried the results of his research in his back yard on his own initiative). Given that, it seems somewhat peculiar that the Bush administration stated with such certainty that Saddam did have these things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7xyd_IRgGs
The sad thing is that they didn’t need to lie. Saddam had spent the last decade screwing with the weapons inspectors. He wasn’t in compliance with the security council resolutions. That alone should have — and did — give Bush enough diplomatic muscle to force Saddam into allowing inspections to resume. Mission accomplished. He probably could even have justified regime change, based on Saddam’s clear history of habitual non-compliance and human rights violations, and on the four inspection-free years he’d had to reconstitute and hide his programs (that’s how long the Manhattan Project took). But apparently the truth wasn’t good enough for him.
I’m short on time right now but I’ll get back to you on this. There is a report by one of the ISG’s members and I can’t remember his/her name right now…
It’s called the Duelfer Report.
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