"My predessessor raided Iraq in '98..."

Did you catch Shrub's answer to a question about Iraq aired this A.M.? He said something like "My predessessor raided Iraq in 1998 over the exact same intelligence reports I had."

You mean Shrub attacked a country, killed >200 of our guys and thousands of Iraqis, ticked nearly the entire world and got us into an occupation/quagmire over 5 year old intelligence?!

I hope some news channels pick up on that.

"You guys sure didn't mind back in '98 when President Clinton bombed the hell out of Iraq. I guess It's ok if a Democratic President uses a bombing campaign in Iraq to distract people from a sex scandal he's in, but not when a Republican President does it to protect the American people."

It is somewhat unfortunate--but it is a fair accusation against us, and, in particular, many of the candidates. There are probably some on here who opposed Clintons Iraq adventures as well as President Bush's, but there are others who felt comfortable with Formoer President Clinton's invasions.

Probably has something to do with trust--we trusted President Clinton a lot more than we do President Bush. And certainly in the foreign arena he was considerably more trustworthy.

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to have dangerous weapons or people and invaiding another country, killing thousands. No difference at all.

Without killing people. And the main problem is the intelligence not the invasion--If Saddam really had been close to having Nukes or had vast stores of Chemical or Biological weapons, than the Invasion would largely have been justified. We have a right to protect ourselves.

The problem is that the war appears to have been based on a lie.

for a alledged assassination attack on Poppy in Kuwait. According to Sy Hersch, this may or may not have been the work of Iraqi intelligence. The so-called assassins were rather a strange bunch of special ops guys and the bomb evidence may or may not have been the work of Iraqi origin.

Clinton did not invade and kill 10 of thousands of Iraqi's on this old intel. He didn't say "F**k Saddam, he's going down". Clinton did not have a cabinet of PNACer's and war mongers who have been salivating on invading Iraq to grab the oil spigot since they stole the office.

But it is so typical of these people not to take responsibility and will always look to hide behind a Democrat instead of admitting their errors.

Impeach the smirky, arrogant twerp.

.....it makes me :puke:

They claim to hate Clinton. Why would they desire to mimic him?

I realize this is apples and oranges anyway, but WTF?

And unfortunately, the sheeple will only hear this story.
All repukes are marching in step with bush. Dems are neutered...
Gee...

Clusterfuck.

What kind of reasoning is this? Five year old intelligence?????

Clinton kept a dangerous Saddam in line so this whole invasion debacle was unnecessary.

THE FIVE-YEAR ITCH! A new report seems to answer our question. Hard data ceased five years back:
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh070403.shtml

Clinton was practicing containment...dubya is/was practicing "Regime Change"...did we forget he also used those reasons for going into Iraq?

Thank goodness President Clinton took care of Irag in 1998, otherwise who knows what kind of catastrophe we would have had in Iraq! He had current intelligence to base his decisions, unlike Bush who just rampaged across a foreign country based on forged documents! I am so glad President Clinton had the courage to stand by his convictions and contain Saddam Hussein so he wouldn't be a threat to America in 2002. Unlike now when we don't even know where Saddam is.

(The Big Dog does it again!)