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Originally posted by Spanky
Did you read those quotes? It is clear no one thought Clinton or Bush I's policies were working. Everyone in the Clinton administration assumed that Saddam was still building WMDs right up until the end of Clinton's tenure. They knew Saddam was continuing to build them but they couldn't do anything about it.
It wasn't clear that everyone was wrong until, as you said, "they sifted through the rubble".
It didn't occur to anyone that, as Nancy Pelosi said, Saddam was "making a mockery of the Weapons Inspection Process" when he had nothing to hide. No one thought he was that crazy. Everyone was wrong.
And what made you think Clinton had a policy? The weapons inspectors left after 98 and as his wife acknowledged Saddam was doing whatever he wanted after that point in time, and Pres Clinton couldn't do anything about it. And that includes two years of the Clinton administration where they just assumed he was continuing to build WMDs.
"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
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I read the quotes. Dude, your subject line was "Who lied?" And the answer is, not Clinton. As we now know, Clinton's containment policy worked. Under Clinton, we stopped Iraq's WMD program. Clinton adopted means commensurate to the risks -- he got it right. And you are so blinded by close to six years of shilling for Republican idiocy, to say nothing of the knee-jerk reaction to Clinton's foreign policy before that, that you simply have no idea. You're like a blind man who walks outside at noon and insists it's midnight.
Clinton's foreign policy had its flaws. This was not one of them. In the quote you posted and I repeated, he got it right.
