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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (419017)	6/26/2003 1:57:33 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

No Clinton was too busy bombing aspirin factories to cover up his sexcapades & various other lies and scandals.

To: American Spirit who wrote (419017)	6/26/2003 4:00:29 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I didn't blame "it" on President Clinton at all. You did. You're the one that said that Saddam dismantled his WMD programs after the first Gulf War. I merely pointed out that if there were no WMD's and Iraq was really in compliance with the UN since 1991, as Blix suggests, then over a million (according to Iraq) Iraqs died in vain as a result of a blockade ordered by the then Commander and Chief of the United States Armed Forces (namely then President Clinton) - from 1993-2000. I believe that Saddam was not in compliance with the UN. That he did not properly dismantle nor provide proper documentation on his WMD programs. I believe that President Clinton was therefore justified in enforcing UN Sanctions, by using U.S. Military might to blockading Iraq. I believe that President Clinton took these actions, because he believed that Iraq was a threat to International and our National Security interests. I do not believe that President Clinton would take actions that resulted in the deaths of so many, otherwise. President Clinton tried a blockade that killed millions (by Iraq's count), a large scale bombing (in 1998) campaign, and the threat of invasion to get Saddam's Iraq to comply with its agreement to end and PROPERLY DOCUMENT its WMD programs - they all failed. The mere fact that Blix's mission did not find gas centrifuges in someone's garden (or the massive number of WMD documents now being uncovered) is proof that his mission was a failure - and wasn't likely to succeed even if he had decades to do his work. To succeed, Blix would have required the full cooperation of the Iraqi Government...and it is now clear that such cooperation was not there. re:"There you go again. Blaming it on Clinton. Clinton "