Why did Clinton & Bush say IRAQ was a THREAT?

Question

(and why do people say ONLY Bush lied?)

"People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons."

-Bill Clinton on "Larry King Live" 07/23/2003

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/23/clinton.iraq.sotu/

(CNN) -- 2004 -- Former President Clinton has revealed that he continues to support President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq but chastised the administration over the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/06/19/clinton.iraq/index.html

Hillary Clinton: No regret on Iraq vote

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Posted: 10:10 AM EDT (1410 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is not sorry she voted for a resolution authorizing President Bush to take military action in Iraq!


http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/iraq.hillary/

"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 Bill 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

"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

Answer 1

Maybe because Iraq WAS a threat. Just a guess.

Answer 2

Few if any of the liberals remember that Bill Clinton also
ran Operation Desert Fox (Dec 16 - 19 1998) a 4 day bombing mission of Iraq. This mission killed an estimated 500,000 Iraqi children, more that all of the children killed in the bombing of Hiroshima. When Madeline Albright was questioned during an interview on 60 Minuets about these deaths being worth it she said that it was ACCEPTABLE!

Why don't the ever bring this up?

Answer 3

Lets not forget that the invasion of Iraq was not a war...it was an invasion, Bush never formally declared war on Iraq he and his cronies in the pentagon (puppetmasters) just decided to invade coz they had to cut the oil off from the Russians and China....... what he told us thousands and thousands of times over was that its a war on terror??? all the while thinking that his repetative discourse would win over a few more supporters, but congress cant wage war on a concept it must be a tangible country or regime, thats why they never endorsed his plans, so to invade Afghanistan he had to cobble together a coalition of the stupid....I mean Palau???? helloooo.....how many troops did they send...... 2????
I find it so very sad that people still refuse to believe it was all about oil. The proof is right there in the open, and no matter what spin they put on it it was and is all about the oil.

Answer 4

It probably sounds like splitting hairs, but G.W. Bush gats called a liar because he said there was enough evidence in the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction to justify invading Iraq.

Clinton and G.H.W. Bush, as well many in the House and the Senate, might have believed there were WMDs, but they never claimed that the threat was serious enough to risk American lives.

The result is that Others look wrong, while Bush looks like a liar.

Answer 5

Iraq was (and still is) a potential threat, just as Iran, North Korea, and even Walmart's dear old China.
The question is was it top top priority to go there???
I guess Israel is a degree safer(?) now, since Saddam sent bombs to Israel.
I think ultimately going into Iraq hasn't made a drop in the ocean's difference in our safety. I never feared attack from the outside, and I still don't. But our attention thousands of miles away has done nothing for domestic
'terrorism' such as gangs, crime, and protecting our borders.

Answer 6

Oh no! Now the libs will spew their predictable and well rehearsed catch phrases that they no doubt get from websites like moveon.org etc. They operate off of their "indifference based on their own self justification".

To them it's only Bush's problem. But the Dems that voted for the war,"before they voted against it", will say that they are allowed to change their minds, yet still point fingers.

One thing Libs don't realize is that with their finger pointing, you have one pointed out, and three pointed right back at ya.

Answer 7

The lame duck was in office for more than a year, and everybody that told him the truth about Iraq, not possessing weapons of mass destruction were shot down by the dictator wannabe.

He admittedly took the mis-information and shoved it down America's throat on a daily basis.

Those Democrats that voted to go to war, had it drilled into their heads on a daily basis by bush and his cronies, that Iraq possessed those weapons of mass destruction.

bush was the spreader of mis-information (lies) and thus caused a huge panic.

When you tell lies, over and over again, they do not become truth like republicans seem to think.

Just look how ruthlessly they handled Plamegate, just because Ms. Plame's husband, Joe Wilson, came back and told bush, to his face, that it was a lie about saddam attempting to purchase yellow cake from Niger.

And, it's a total disgrace that bush undermined-ed America's judicial system by granting libby a commutation of his prison sentence.

He refused to listen to the truth and only believed his corporate buddy's lies so he could put dollars in their and his pockets at the expense of the deaths of thousands, including, so far, over 3,500 young Americans.

None is so deaf as he/she who refuses to listen.

If bush didn't lie, he is certainly deaf to the truth.

Got it Blondie?

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Answer 8

B-b-but Clinton isn't an excuse, nor is it a justification.

Where are the WMDs? Why weren't the UN inspectors allowed to finish their jobs before the administration started the war?

Answer 9

Don't you think it is wonderful that President Bush obeyed Bill Clinton's advice!

Answer 10

Oh no no no. I'm calling them all liars and opportunists.

I dont care for partisan hackery. Both sides share in the guilt on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DQvYR6UgAo