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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (8191)	12/5/2001 2:36:59 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 93284

"The real problem with the sanctions began in 1995, when the head of the U.N. inspection team said Iraq was 95 percent "disarmed," and disagreement arose over how to verify the remaining 5 percent. By 1997, the head of the U.N. inspection team at that time, Scott Ritter, said that as far as chemical and biological weapons were concerned Iraq was fully "disarmed" and posed no threat to rest of the world. Iraq argued that it had fully complied with U.N. Resolution 687 and demanded that the sanctions be lifted. Had Bush remained in office, he would have worked through these problems, gained the access we needed to find anything else or convince ourselves nothing else existed and lift the sanctions. Instead, President Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, committed one of the biggest foreign policy blunders since the Bay of Pigs when they allowed spies to be infiltrated into the U.N. inspection team and took it upon themselves to raise the bar on Iraq, making the lifting of sanctions contingent on Hussein's ouster. They transformed sanctions from a diplomatic tool with a precise and obtainable objective into a blunt instrument of pain to inflict punishment on innocent Iraqi civilians, removing any incentive Hussein might have had to cooperate and destroying any chance we had to keep tabs on him. We are still paying for the Clinton/Albright blunder. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell are right to try to get U.N. inspectors back into Iraq, and they have an opportunity to undo the enormous damage done by Clinton and Albright so that the terms of U.N. Resolution 687 can be implemented fully. If Iraq refuses this reasonable approach, then would be the proper time to consider military" Jack Kemp, townhall.com Message 16747292