02-05-2004, 07:11 PM
Here is a quote from David Kay the CIA's chief weapons inspector until he resigned recently:
Iraq's weapons and facilities, he [Kay] says, had been destroyed in three phases: by allied bombardment in the 1991 Gulf War; by U.N. inspectors in the half-decade after that war; and by President Clinton's 1998 bombing campaign. (Clinton's airstrikes, by now widely forgotten, were even at the time widely dismissed as a political diversion; they took place during the weekend when the House of Representatives voted for impeachment. But according to Kay, they destroyed Iraq's remaining infrastructure for building chemical weapons.) Kay adds that Saddam tried to resuscitate some of these programs, butâdue to sanctions, fear of inspections, and lack of resourcesâhe was not able to do so.
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So Clinton finished the job but the Republicans were too focused on impeaching Clinton to notice....makes you want to go hmmmmmmmm
Iraq's weapons and facilities, he [Kay] says, had been destroyed in three phases: by allied bombardment in the 1991 Gulf War; by U.N. inspectors in the half-decade after that war; and by President Clinton's 1998 bombing campaign. (Clinton's airstrikes, by now widely forgotten, were even at the time widely dismissed as a political diversion; they took place during the weekend when the House of Representatives voted for impeachment. But according to Kay, they destroyed Iraq's remaining infrastructure for building chemical weapons.) Kay adds that Saddam tried to resuscitate some of these programs, butâdue to sanctions, fear of inspections, and lack of resourcesâhe was not able to do so.
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So Clinton finished the job but the Republicans were too focused on impeaching Clinton to notice....makes you want to go hmmmmmmmm