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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (24309)1/14/2004 2:11:35 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793928
 
I guess the Media never picks up quotes from "Hardball." This sure got by. Of course, the remark fits the Media's perception of the past. "Professor Bainbridge"

Robert Reich's Hardball Whopper
So I was peacefully watching Hardball when I heard Robert Reich claim that George Bush lied during the 2000 election because Bush never told the American people that he wanted regime change in Iraq. (Transcript not available yet, I'll post exact quote when it is.) Wrong. From the Wake Forest debate:

BUSH: The coalition against Saddam has fallen apart or it’s unraveling, let’s put it that way. The sanctions are being violated. We don’t know whether he’s developing weapons of mass destruction. He better not be or there’s going to be a consequence, should I be the president.
Q: You could get him out of there?
BUSH: I’d like to, of course. But it’s going to be important to rebuild that coalition to keep the pressure on him.
So Bush told us in 2000 that he'd like to get Saddam out of Iraq. Doesn't mean Bush made the right decision, but it does mean Bush isn't the one who's lying.

Of course, when you go back to the 2000 debates, you also discover that regime change was a bipartisan goal. In the Vice Presidential debates, Senator Joe Lieberman said:

The fact is that we will not enjoy real stability in the Middle East until Saddam Hussein is gone. ... And that's why I was proud to co-sponsor the Iraq Liberation Act, with Senator Trent Lott; why I have kept in touch with the indigenous Iraqi opposition -- broad-based -- to Saddam Hussein. Vice President Gore met with them earlier this year. We are supporting them in their efforts, and we will continue to support them until the Iraqi people rise up and do what the people of Serbia have done in the last few days -- get rid of a despot. We will welcome you back into the family of nations where you belong.
Update: In dissing Paul O'Neill, Instapundit laid out more evidence that regime change is a longstanding bipartisan policy.
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