Clinton Claimed Last Year Saddam Had WMD

[KMAN]

So both Clinton and Bush claim that Iraq had WMD but only Bush gets criticized?????

More double standards by the left.

Clinton Claimed Last Year Saddam Had WMD

Former US president Bill Clinton said in October during a visit to Portugal that he was convinced Iraq had weapons of mass destruction up until the fall of Saddam Hussein, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso said.

"When Clinton was here recently he told me he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime," he said in an interview with Portuguese cable news channel SIC Noticias.

Clinton, a Democrat who left office in 2001, met with Durao Barroso on October 21 when he travelled to Lisbon to give a speech on globalisation.

The US justified going to war against Iraq last year citing the threat posed by Baghdad's weapons of mass destruction.

An influential Washington think-tank said the Bush administration "systematically" inflated the threat from Iraq's weapons programs in a bid to strengthen its push for military action against Iraq last year.

In its report, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace also said it was unlikely that Iraq could have destroyed, hidden or moved out of the country hundreds of weapons of mass destruction without Washington detecting some sign of activity.

 

[EverFresh]

Clinton didn't invade Iraq.

 

[xpanda]

If true, it's a double-standard by Clinton, not the Left. I doubt that this piece of information (heresay, rhetoric, whatever you'd like to call it) will suddenly make anti-war proponents and Democrats alike say 'ahhhhh ... yes, well, then Bush did the right thing.'

 

[JinnRikki]

More like double standards by the right, after all Clinton is such a liar, this too must be a lie.

 

[KMAN]

Everfresh, JinnRikki - Way to dodge the issue!


KMAN

 

[Shotgun]

Xpanda, just about every country thought Iraq had WMD. This is from an article by Ken Pollack:

"U.S. government analysts were not alone in these views. In the late spring of 2002 I participated in a Washington meeting about Iraqi WMD. Those present included nearly twenty former inspectors from the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), the force established in 1991 to oversee the elimination of WMD in Iraq. One of the senior people put a question to the group: Did anyone in the room doubt that Iraq was currently operating a secret centrifuge plant? No one did. Three people added that they believed Iraq was also operating a secret calutron plant (a facility for separating uranium isotopes).

Other nations' intelligence services were similarly aligned with U.S. views. Somewhat remarkably, given how adamantly Germany would oppose the war, the German Federal Intelligence Service held the bleakest view of all, arguing that Iraq might be able to build a nuclear weapon within three years. Israel, Russia, Britain, China, and even France held positions similar to that of the United States; France's President Jacques Chirac told Time magazine last February, "There is a problem—the probable possession of weapons of mass destruction by an uncontrollable country, Iraq. The international community is right ... in having decided Iraq should be disarmed." In sum, no one doubted that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."

 

[KMAN]

Personally, I am thankful that we have a President with enough balls to stand up and enforce the resolutions established by the UN.

God Bless America and Her Allies.

KMAN

 

[American]

God, do I second that.