IMPORTANT: Bush mentioned possibly going after Saddam in the 2000 DEBATES!

[Sliverofhope]

http://www.mydd.com/story/2004/8/12/22752/1826#readmore

While I was sifting through 2000 Bush-Gore debate transcripts in order to reacquaint myself with Bush's debating style, I ran across this eye-popping quote:

The coalition against Saddam has fallen apart or it's unraveling, let's put it that way. The sanctions are being violated. We don't know whether he's developing weapons of mass destruction. He'd better not be or there's going to be a consequence, should I be the president.

This quote dates from October 11, 2000 exactly eleven months before the attacks that supposedly changed everything. Now, look at this quote from the third debate one week later:

Our coalition against Saddam is unraveling. Sanctions are loosened. The man who may be developing weapons of mass destruction, we don't know because inspectors aren't in.

GROUNDWORK FOR PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY

I have to credit MyDD for finding this. I'm just spreading the word.

[BayouBengal07]

1. Of course in the same debates he said

"I don't believe our troops should be used for what's called "nation building""

and

"One way for us to be viewed as the ugly American is for us to go around the world saying "This is how we do it, so should you."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Both of you have made excellent catches. Push those memes

Good work.

[BayouBengal07]

2. Its been in the works since '92

The PNAC ilk wanted revenge for not finishing Saddam after Gulf War I.

[praxiz]

5. "This man tried to kill my father." - Bush

Way to go sending other peoples children to die for your personal vendetta, Georgieboy

[Seldona]

4. Great find.

This was planned while *Bush the First was still in office, though he politely shelved it.

Everything is out there, hell right on the PNAC site itself.

Not to mention the letter many of those in the administration wrote to Clinton asking him to invade.

It is written in their own words, and those pubs I do know consider it on par with Area 51, or something tinfoil realted. :(

Willful ignorance.