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Anyone remember December 16th, 1998?
President Clinton launched an attack on Iraq. Here's part of the text from the speech he gave just after the attack began:
Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.
Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world.
It wasn't a huge attack. There weren't any ground troops involved, and it only lasted for a week, or was it less?
I don't remember Bill asking anyone if he could attack Iraq. I don't remember a huge outcry over the attack, either.
I do remember that it occured just days before the house voted to impeach him. Interesting, no?
So was Clinton wagging the dog? Aren't the reasons Bush gives even more valid now than the reasons Clinton gave almost three years ago?
Was the pinprick airstrike that Clinton launched meant to divert attention from his scandals or was it really meant to do what he said it was meant to do? Did he really think he could take out Hussein's WMD's with a few airstrikes? Or was it just a lame attempt to divert attention?
If Hussein was a threat then, isn't he an even bigger threat now? There have been no inspectors to look over his shoulder for three years.
And if Clinton wasn't wagging the dog almost four years ago, then shouldn't we go in and do right and complete what he was correct to attempt?
transcript of clinton speech
President Clinton launched an attack on Iraq. Here's part of the text from the speech he gave just after the attack began:
Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.
Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world.
It wasn't a huge attack. There weren't any ground troops involved, and it only lasted for a week, or was it less?
I don't remember Bill asking anyone if he could attack Iraq. I don't remember a huge outcry over the attack, either.
I do remember that it occured just days before the house voted to impeach him. Interesting, no?
So was Clinton wagging the dog? Aren't the reasons Bush gives even more valid now than the reasons Clinton gave almost three years ago?
Was the pinprick airstrike that Clinton launched meant to divert attention from his scandals or was it really meant to do what he said it was meant to do? Did he really think he could take out Hussein's WMD's with a few airstrikes? Or was it just a lame attempt to divert attention?
If Hussein was a threat then, isn't he an even bigger threat now? There have been no inspectors to look over his shoulder for three years.
And if Clinton wasn't wagging the dog almost four years ago, then shouldn't we go in and do right and complete what he was correct to attempt?
transcript of clinton speech
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