Has anyone talked about Kerry's 1997 We Must be Firm with Saddam Hussein Speech to Congress yet????? Raises some MOST interesting questions when one compares this to what he's been saying for the last year....
If George W. Bush has "misled" the American people in 2003 about Saddam Hussein having Weapons of Mass Destruction — what exactly was Kerry doing when he voted to condemn Iraq for not ending "its weapons of mass destruction programs" in 1998?
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WE MUST BE FIRM WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN (Senate - November 09, 1997)
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On November 9, 1997, John Kerry had told America, from the floor of the Senate in a speech entitled, "We Must be Firm with Saddam Hussein":
In my judgment, the Security Council should authorize a strong U.N. military response that will materially damage, if not totally destroy, as much as possible of the suspected infrastructure for developing and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, as well as key military command and control nodes. Saddam Hussein should pay a grave price, in a currency that he understands and values, for his unacceptable behavior.
This should not be a strike consisting only of a handful of cruise missiles hitting isolated targets primarily of presumed symbolic value. But how long this military action might continue and how it may escalate should Saddam remain intransigent and how extensive would be its reach are for the Security Council and our allies to know and for Saddam Hussein ultimately to find out. ...
So, while Kerry was trying to GET Bill Clinton to get the UN to take action, or approve action which undoubtedly would have required American money and American troops — under the direction of the United Nations — to solve the problem of Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction, he now is saying that GEORGE BUSH was lying about weapons of mass destruction? |
