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• Thursday, December 4, 2008 07:31 AM

  Cowards avoid the Tough Questions, . . . like Joan Walsh

  "A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein. It wasn't just people in my administration; a lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington, D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence." - George Bush

  Joan, "the babe", Walsh has every right to criticize Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq.

  It is cowardly, however, for her to ignore the line highlighted above.

  I have yet to hear a salonista, a liberal critic, acknowledge or explain away why so many political leaders, both in the US and abroad, claimed saddam had WMD prior to Bush's inaguration in 2001.

  For instance;

  "In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now; a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed." - Bill Clinton, 1998

  Source: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/17/transcripts/clinton.iraq/

  The Bush haters have no explanation for Clinton's remarks. It doesn't fit their paranoid conspiracy theory. . . . unless they are going to claim that Cheney blackmailed him into saying it, 2 years before Bush was elected.

  —NotOrbitBoy Read NotOrbitBoy's other letters
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