"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 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 Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998


LOL, looks like Clinton was a better President than I thought. It's now
clear his Iraqi policies worked.

Careful, don't give him a stroke.

If our present President had realized
this, 500 young men and women would still be alive and we could have saved
$100 billion dollars.

Closer to $180 billion... and counting....





felton wrote:
I guess the inspections and sanctions must have been working.


Not really all that well. The sanctions were extremely painful for the people
of Iraq, who were suffering the worst deprivation. But it did keep Iraq from
being able to afford any real WMD programs.


I wonder how many years the Republicans will be blaming Clinton for
all these problems.

Decades, no doubt. Shucks many of them are still PO'd about FDR although they
are very quick to brag about WW2.


Now they are claiming that the half trillion
dollar deficit in the proposed budget relates to the "jobs and
security deficits" they inherited from Clinton. Holy crap. I used to
think that Pat Robertson's political insights directly from God were
the nuttiest things the Republicans had to say. Now it is a real
horse race for stupid statements.

It looks to me like they are taking pages directly from Nixon's play book....
lie.

The economy? They say "We created X jobs this past quarter, look unemployment
is going down" ....yet unemployment remains very high and jobs are being lost
faster than they are being created.... worse, most newly created jobs are lower
paying.

The war? "We had to invade Iraq because of the imminent threat of WMDs... no
wait, we knew all along there weren't any... it was to free the Iraqi people
and build a stable democracy in the Middle East... shucks no, Halliburton &
Carlyle are NOT making record profits from the war and it's aftermath!"

The national media? "The press & broadcast media are very liberal biased,
that's why they keep saying such bad things about the Bush Administration"
.....yet somehow the media are mostly owned by very conservative oriented big
conglomerates.

Now just apply this to the environment, campaign finance, secret Presidential
executive orders, erosion of Constitutional rights, national energy policy, etc
etc etc.

Entirely too many people will believe whatever is shouted at them loud enough,
often enough, despite contrary evidence right in front of them. People on the
Titanic were telling each other, "This ship unsinkable!" while standing
neck-deep in ice water.

Regards- Doug King