"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," said another hawk, taking aim at the split in the
international community. "France, on the other hand, has long
established economic and political relationships within the Arab
world, and has had a different approach."
Who were the political leaders who, according to critics of the
Iraq war, perpetrated this fraud on the American people by
making overblown warnings about Saddam's weapons of mass
destruction? Respectively, President Bill Clinton, Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright, Defense Secretary William Cohen,
National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Sen. Tom Daschle and
Sen. John Kerry.
They were all speaking in the late 1990s when Clinton bombed
Iraq to "degrade" an Iraqi WMD capacity that we are supposed
to believe disappeared in the inspection-free years that ensued,
only to be resurrected as a false justification for war by the Bush
administration. |
