The challenge, ToiletPaper, was for AmSpit to prove the words had been used by the stated people in the stated contexts. I will accept that burden has been met.
Now let me give YOU so quotes:
""We have to defend our future from these predators of the 21st century. They will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of NUCLEAR, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot allow that to happen. There is no more clear example of this threat than SADDAM Hussein."
- -Bill Clinton, 1998
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"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that SADDAM Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his NUCLEAR program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, SADDAM Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop NUCLEAR weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security." -- Hillary CLINTON, October 10, 2002
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So maybe Bush and Blair are lying, but if so they're not alone. There must be a vast conspiratorial network of liars. Blix and the U.N. weapons inspectors must be lying, too, of course. But the conspiracy doesn't stop there.
Maybe former CIA director John Deutch was lying when he testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Sept. 19, 1996, that "we believe that [Hussein] retains an undetermined quantity of chemical and biological agents that he would certainly have the ability to deliver against adversaries by aircraft or artillery or by Scud missile systems."
And so was former secretary of defense William Cohen this past April when he declared, "I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons. . . . I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out."
One would have to assume as well that the German intelligence service was lying when it reported in 2001 that Hussein was three years away from being able to build three NUCLEAR weapons and that by 2005 Iraq would have a missile with sufficient range to reach Europe.
Maybe French President Jacques Chirac was lying when he declared this past February that there were probably weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that "we have to find and destroy them."
And then there's Al Gore, who declared last September, presumably based on what he had learned as vice president, that Hussein had "stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Finally, we get to Bill CLINTON. In a speech delivered at the Pentagon in February 1998, CLINTON described what he called Iraq's "offensive biological warfare capability, notably 5,000 gallons of botulinum, which causes botulism; 2,000 gallons of anthrax; 25 biological-filled Scud warheads; and 157 aerial bombs." CLINTON accurately reported the view of U.N. weapons inspectors at the time "that Iraq still has stockpiles of chemical and biological munitions, a small force of Scud-type missiles, and the capacity to restart quickly its production program and build many, many more weapons." It was essential, CLINTON declared, in words that now seem especially poignant, that the world address "the very kind of threat Iraq poses . . . a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists . . . who travel the world among us unnoticed."
If you like a good conspiracy, this one's a doozy. The best thing about it is that, if all these people are lying, there's only one person who ever told the truth: SADDAM Hussein. And now we can't find him either.
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