CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAY

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/opinion/letters.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-12-05-0006.html

Did Bill Clinton Play on Our Fears, Too?
Editor, Times-Dispatch:

The president, in a State of the Union address, declared, "Together we must also confront the new hazards of chemical and biological weapons, and the outlaw states, terrorists, and organized criminals seeking to acquire them.

"Saddam Hussein has spent much of his nation's wealth, not on providing for the Iraqi people, but on developing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them.

"The United Nations weapons inspectors have done a truly remarkable job, finding and destroying more of Iraq's arsenal than was destroyed during the entire Gulf War. Now, Saddam Hussein wants to stop them from completing their mission."

These are the words that most Democrats, some Republicans, and every liberal independent, excluding Sen. Joe Lieberman, likes to throw at President George Bush to prove he lied about WMDs. Even though the inspectors were made to abandon their project, the president's opponents are apparently satisfied that no weapons or the intent to develop them existed, remarkably choosing to trust Saddam.

The date of that State of the Union speech was January 27, 1998, and it was spoken by President Bill Clinton. While the planning for 9/11 was underway, led by the man Clinton passed on seizing, his focus was the very situation George W. Bush confronted six years later.

It is interesting to ponder, when Vice President Al Gore is screaming, "He played on our fears," or Sen. Hillary Clinton excuses her vote because she was deceived into voting for the war: Could it have been the same people who frightened and deceived Clinton into making his statement? Or is it possible that he is one of the fright-mongering deceivers? We may learn the facts someday -- perhaps when the Sandy Berger files reappear.

ohmygod...is this straight from FoxNews?

Please stop posting this crap!

I read this this morning, this really is ingrained in the minds of people.

Saddam wasn't much of a threat to us after that.

or at least and Thank You luncheon thing.

Seriously between this and the op-ed comparing Cheney to RFK they need some help some serious help.

other than the Sports Page, that rag is really only good for wrapping your fish in.

it has the Monday Ukrop's ad in it.... oh there is always the Sunday listing of weddings ( I love trying to figure out which will be the most awkward) and of course ...FIRE!!

junior & his dick were never this artistic. It was a John Wayne shoot up 'em style at the O.K. Coral, cowboy action, in anticipation to win American hearts.

Perhaps old lady Barbara Bush wrote the script!