Thursday, November 03, 2005

Clenis

Interesting how every conservative is suddenly invoking the Clenis as an excuse for the Iraq war. Some points:

Just because Clinton may have believed something does not necessarily make it true. I didn't think we needed to remind conservatives of that, but it's also something liberals believe. There never was a personality cult of the Clenis (except, oddly, on the right) which turned us all into his Lemmings.

In 1998 the bombing campaign, according to weapons inspectors, destroyed the basis for any possible WMD programs.


In 2002-2003 we had weapons inspectors in Iraq, thanks to the great and wonderful sabre rattling by Bush, to determine if post-1998 the capacity for any WMD had been rebuilt. They found that it hadn't, but instead of acting on that new information the Bush administration took us to war anyway.


...seeing the forest has more.