Greg wrote:
'm really not fixated on WMD's. But Clifto asked for examples of lies from
Bush & company and that's one of the most obvious, and arguably, most
significant. Not that "Saddam has WMD's", honest men still debate what his
WMD capability was. It's the: "there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now
has weapons of mass destruction. "There is no doubt that he is amassing them
to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." (Cheney)

"it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were
unaccounted-for stocks of biological and chemical weapons." (Clinton)

"predators of the twenty-first century... will be all the more lethal if we
allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and
missiles to deliver them... There is no more clear example of this threat
than Saddam Hussein's Iraq." (Clinton)

"Look, we have exhausted virtually all our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis
to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that,
what other option is there but to force them to do so?" (Daschle)

There was doubt, of course, in the intelligence community.

There was no doubt in the CIA. But that's because the CIA wasn't allowed
to do intelligence work for years, due to Clinton presidential directives.
And the head of the CIA was a Clinton hangover.

That's the part
that Bush & company

and Clinton and company

didn't share with Congress, or the public.

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