Jul-10-2008, 21:02
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Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
--Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
--Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by:
-- Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
-Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
-- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
IF your trying to imply that there was no intelligence during the Clinton years I'd have to agree with ya. If not, you can't spin the fact that these people not only agreed with Bush before he was in office but these same people were all on board when we invaded based on what they were told for YEARS.
Have a good one! 
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I think we are getting way off track from the original point of this thread that the yellowcake we knew about since 1991 somehow meant Bush had not lied about the Nigerian yellowcake. That's wrong --- he lied about the Nigerian yellowcake.
This long list of quotes does not indicate any of these people were for the war --- it indicates they thought Saddam Hussein was dangerous. I agreed with every one of these statements but did not agree with the war. You've listed the President, Secretary of State, National Security Advisor and prominent members of both houses. Don't you think that if they had thought Hussein was enough of a threat to justify a war, they could have had one? Obviously they didn't think they needed a war to deal with the problem at that point.
Earlier you also listed a long list of prominent Democrats who seemed to make statements in favor of the war after Bush took office and during the runup to the war. Those are the people I am asking about. Did they have access to Bush's intelligence sources? Or were they basing their pro-war opinion on Bush's lies? I know that for a lot of regular citizens, they based their pro-war opinions on Bush's lies and felt seriously burned about it later.
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