David Kaye is accusing CLINTON of inventing the WMD scam, well here is the

[radwriter0555]

proof he DIDN'T.

Please, PLEASE use this; as its pure weaponry against the bush regime.

First, The 1998 Rumsfeld Security Commission Report which is by and large the premise of the Clinton position against Iraq, and the subsequent RESOLUTION:

<anip> Whereas The Congress of the United States appointed a bipartisan commission headed by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to assess the ballistic missile threat to the United States; and
Whereas, that commission issued a report on 15 July 1998 finding that there is a direct threat of a nuclear attack on the United States which is "broader, more mature and evolving more rapidly than has been reported by the intelligence community"; and
(more) http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/172/documentid/535/history/3,2166,1306,172,535

Then, here is how the Clinton Admin decided to position itself on the info it was getting from the Rumsfeld Commission:

<snip> With the Rumsfeld Commission's report scheduled for release today, I wanted to give you my initial thoughts based on the briefings I have received on it.

I want to make clear from the outset that we have long considered monitoring the emerging ballistic missile threat against the United States and its interests as one of our most important missions in the post-Cold War world. As I understand it, the Commission's report agrees with our long-standing judgment that the threat is complex, serious, and growing and confronts the Intelligence Community with an array of complicated problems that require innovative solutions.

The differences center more on when specific threats will materialize, rather than whether there is a serious threat. In our March 1998 Annual Report to Congress on Foreign Missile Developments, we underline the significant threat posed today by medium-range missiles, our continuing concern about existing and emerging ICBMs, and the immediate danger that comes from the proliferation activities of countries that possess or are developing such systems.

More:> http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/press_release/1998/pr071598.html

and importantly, this letter from the PNAC BEGGING Clinton to invade Iraq is clear cut evidence of the REPUBLICANS attempting to divine Clinton's middle east positions FOR him. This is really your kicker:

The policy of “containment” of Saddam Hussein has been steadily eroding over the past several months. As recent events have demonstrated, we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf War coalition to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam when he blocks or evades UN inspections. Our ability to ensure that Saddam Hussein is not producing weapons of mass destruction, therefore, has substantially diminished. Even if full inspections were eventually to resume, which now seems highly unlikely, experience has shown that it is difficult if not impossible to monitor Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons production. The lengthy period during which the inspectors will have been unable to enter many Iraqi facilities has made it even less likely that they will be able to uncover all of Saddam’s secrets. As a result, in the not-too-distant future we will be unable to determine with any reasonable level of confidence whether Iraq does or does not possess such weapons.


Such uncertainty will, by itself, have a seriously destabilizing effect on the entire Middle East. It hardly needs to be added that if Saddam does acquire the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction, as he is almost certain to do if we continue along the present course, the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil will all be put at hazard. As you have rightly declared, Mr. President, the security of the world in the first part of the 21st century will be determined largely by how we handle this threat.


Given the magnitude of the threat, the current policy, which depends for its success upon the steadfastness of our coalition partners and upon the cooperation of Saddam Hussein, is dangerously inadequate. The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy.

And the rest of it: http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

Please, don't let them shift this mess to CLINTON. Send this to everyone and every media you're in contact with.





http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

[Lindacooks]

1. So the Repukes got to him too, huh?

I would just love to be privvy to these little conversations between the Repuke mafia and members of their cartel who stray from the party line: O'Neil, Kay, even Katherine Harris. What do you think they're threatened with? Death? Family members disappearing? Loss of limbs?

[radwriter0555]

3. It's not like that. Seriously, it wasn't until 3 years ago that we ALL

shifted our knowledge about the bush regime. People like ME have known for years about their crooked, nefarious and criminal conduct, but until this acquisition of power in 2000, it really wasn't on anyone's radar, not even the esteemed people in the clinton admin.

I'm sure the bush regime/PNAC cronies sold themselves as worldly, knowledgly and as the only experts on affairs in iraq, and if you think about it; who else would be?

But NOW, we ALL know the truth.

The truth is not a friend to us, as it's revealing the very worst thing that could have ever happened to our Constitution.

[monobrau]

2. Clinton didn't invade Iraq - simple

There was never any controversy over whether or not Saddam was a bad man; the difference is over 500 dead soldiers, an unknown amount of maimed soldiers, an unknown amount of dead and wounded Iraqis, a devastated Iraqi economy and infrastructure, and several hundred billion dollars of our money transferred to the the coffers of Bechtel and Halliburton. Not to mention the destruction of our international relations that will take years of work by responsible adults to repair.

[DennisReveni]

4. Kay

Kay is the one who sold Poppy on WMD's in the first place.
http://www.yearzero.org/communique/5683b4e965721ede3c289f8562eca645.php
"In fact, until Kay came along, most experts in most western nations believed there was no evidence for an extensive WMD program in Iraq. But after the war, when Bush I needed greater validation for his actions in the run up to the 1992 election, Kay was made chief nuclear inspector for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) on Iraq. UNSCOM was created in response to the Bush claims that Iraq was a hotbed of WMD weaponry that had to be 'dismantled.'"
Kay was also one of the inspectors Iraq accused of spying for the CIA.
http://www.gulfstatesnews.com/html/newuser/demo/perspective.html
"The U.N. inspection team probing Iraq’s nuclear weapons programme has had a tough time. It was detained two weeks ago and forced to give up documents; then on the following day was surrounded in a car park and kept hostage in a bus for four days.

The International Atomic Energy Agency team, led by David Kay of the U.S.A., was eventually permitted to leave Baghdad for Bahrain with the documents it had discovered. They comprise 25,000 pages as well as 700 rolls of film, and will take months to analyse. But the team has already concluded that after 10 years and an estimated $10 billion of research since Israel’s raid on the Osirak nuclear facility, Iraq was only about 18 months away from developing a nuclear weapon…"

Nice timeline here,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/unscom/etc/cron.html

Either way Clinton fearmongered on Iraq. Possibly to deflect attention from the Lewinsky scandal.
But they already knew of Hussien kamals testimony that he oversaw the destruction of WMD's and saddam feared to keep any.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. Hail Clenis!!!

:eyes:

[AP]

6. I'm so convinced this is just meant to help Dean in NH. This is the

Republicans' last chance to keep Dean from disappearing.

[peacetalksforall]

7. I will bring back Honor and Integrity to the White House

with my tie
I will lie

[peacetalksforall]

8. To avoid a misunderstanding...

I am referring, of course, to the Texan with the 'absentee record'.

[NewJeffCT]

9. I'm still wondering

How a letter to the president means that it was official policy? If I wrote a letter to Bush* advocating robbing a bank, does that mean I'll get off if I do it in 2010 because I sent a letter to his Bush in 2004 and that made it official policy?