"Maybe we should figure out what we're gonna do with it once we have it, eh?"
Jack0, Feb 2003
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
"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 Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction."
- Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 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.
- (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, 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
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and th! e means of delivering them."
- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..."
- Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002
"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 ... 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."
- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002
Moe, no you don't. The biggest problem the Left has is that they don't want to know what happened and how and why it happened, no matter what. The Left only wants to hear its fairy tale version.
If you did really want to know what the D's said about Iraq and WMD, you'd have already known about every one of those statements because they were said in public and on the record.
even while they are listening to the audio tapes.
They've made up their minds that it never happened.Please don't confuse them with the facts.
with both feet!"
fuck it up?
it was all part of the power bush and rove have over the dumfuckrats.
and they want to be in charge???
Of course many of these Dems voted in favor of4 the war at the time... they were going based on the same bullshit lies the Bush administration told everyone else.
MY question to you, NCJimbo... is how can you continue to support the efforts of this corrupt criminal administration, knowing what you do about their heinous high crimes and misdemeanors.
You KNOW there were no WMD in Iraq... how can you continue to support the lies?
any Democrat is as stupid and clumsy in the execution of a plan as their shillboy chimp.
I'm sure you can get all sorts of quotations from Democrats that all problems should be cured, and Republicans find this shocking, because by and large, they only believe *their* problems should be cured. None of that says shit about how or what anybody might actually do.
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"The Bush administration has provided the American public with little more than rhetorically laced speculation. There has been nothing in the way of substantive fact presented that makes the case that Iraq possesses these weapons or has links to international terror, that Iraq poses a threat to the United States of America worthy of war."
Scott Ritter- Former Marine, Republican, U.N. Arms Inspector July 2002
"However, according to UNSCOM’s chief weapons inspector 90-95 percent of Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons and capabilities were destroyed by 1998; those that remained have likely degraded in the intervening four years and are likely useless."
Ron Paul- Oct 8, 2002
"I'd argue that containment is certainly a better approach than either marching on Baghdad or destabilizing the Iraqi government by killing Saddam." Col. Richard Dunn III, Rt a former Army strategist. July 2002
"We've bottled him up for 11 years, so we're doing okay. I don't know the reason the administration is so focused on Iraq. I'm very puzzled by it." Jim Cornette, former AF bio-warfare expert July 2002
"The policies we are now asked to advance are incompatible not only with American values but also with American interests. Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America’s most potent weapon of both offense and defense since the days of Woodrow Wilson. We have begun to dismantle the largest and most effective web of international relationships the world has ever known. Our current course will bring instability and danger, not security." John Keisling's letter of resignation from the State Department
"If we get drawn into something in Iraq, then our focus will go very heavily there, and it will be hard to sustain the momentum in the war on terrorism. That's the biggest danger that I see." Army Gen. Henry Shelton, former Chmn Joint Chiefs of Staff. Sept 2002
It should be clear to anyone who doesn't look for information merely to support a conclusion that they reached emotionally rather than intellectually that there was a great deal of uncertainty about whether Iraq had WMD and, additionally, what to do even if they did. Also, remember that congress was basing decisions on information provided by the Bush administration which omitted any information not supportive of their claims.
It's a shame so many people in the U.S. treat politics like football, "My team rocks. Your team sucks" rather than actually gathering information and deciding which policies actually do provide for the greatest good for the greatest number.
Finally, there is no left in the U.S., there's only right wing and a center. That the center politicians are branded as left wing reveals a stunning ignorance of politics.
Below is a link to the article that I got the quotes from. After each quote is the source of the quote.
"Maybe we should figure out what we're gonna do with it once we have it, eh?"
Jack0, Feb 2003