Is Bill Clinton somewhat responsible for the invasion of Iraq?
We went to war supposedly because he was dodging the weapons inspectors and supposedly getting WMD.
Well I was listening to Antiwar radio a while back, and the conversation has stuck in my head. He said that the original UN deal with Saddam had him being inspected for 6 years and as long as he cooperated, he was to get his sovereignty back. However, Clinton undermined the final inspections in 1997 under Newt Grincich et al’s neoconservative pressure, and he changed the terms so that Saddam had to be inspected indefinitely without reward. That annoyed Saddam so he started defying the weapons inspectors since he knew that no matter what they would lie to him and change the deal. Because Clinton changed the terms this lead to the 1998 bombings of Iraq.
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Do you agree with all that?
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"....Saddam would be off the hook and, more
importantly for the Clintonites, the neo-conservative republicans would be howling for the president's blood.
The only hope was somehow to prevent Ekeus completing his mission.
Enter Madeleine Albright, newly appointed Secretary of State. On March 26, 1997, she strode on to the stage at Georgetown University to deliver what was billed as a major policy address on Iraq. Many in the audience expected that she would extend some sort of olive branch toward the Iraqi regime, but that was far from her mind.
Instead, she was set on making sure that Saddam effectively ended his cooperation with the inspectors. "We do not agree with the nations who argue that if Iraq complies with its obligations concerning weapons of mass destruction, sanctions should be lifted," she declared. Sanctions, she stated without equivocation, would remain unless or until Saddam was driven from power.
Ekeus understood immediately what Albright intended. "I knew that Saddam would now feel that there was no point in his
cooperating with us, and that was the intent of her speech."
Sure enough, the following day he got an angry call from Tariq Aziz, Saddam's deputy prime minister and emissary to the outside world. "He wanted to know why Iraq should work with us any more."
From then on, the inspectors found their lives increasingly difficult, as Iraqi officials, clearly acting under instructions from Saddam, blocked them at every turn."
If anything, Bill Clinton
If anything, Bill Clinton probably kept the NWO dogs of war at bay by only bombing and starving the Iraqis, so that he would not have a failed war on his resume. The hatchet-man Bush cared little for legacy and did what he was told.
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"The Iraq disaster has many fathers."..indeed, some
with a "democratic name tag".
According to this, John M. Deutch, C.I.A. director under President Bill Clinton sure did. But maybe it's just like Pelosi says, the CIA lies.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&c...
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SAIC helped supply the faulty intelligence about Saddam’s WMD that then generated ample contracts for SAIC in Iraq.
Scores of influential members of the national-security establishment clambered onto SAIC's payroll, among them John M. Deutch, undersecretary of energy under President Jimmy Carter and C.I.A. director under President Bill Clinton; Rear Admiral William F. Raborn, who headed development of the Polaris submarine; and Rear Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, who served variously as director of the National Security Agency, deputy director of the C.I.A., and vice director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.[37]
Carter and Clinton surely wouldn't have knowledge of what their boy moved on to? Who was it said "war is a racket"?
"Many fathers" ...
I watched a post here the other day that was a link to a Chinese/English video that interviewed a man that was the father of the Euro. He said, humbly, the currency had "Many Fathers".
That was the first time I heard that term.
WAHOR!!
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/48994
WAHOR!!
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/48994
Take it back to 1963 we financed the overthrow, then go back mor
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
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1963
We financed an overthrow of an Iraqi government in 1963?
Link please.
Google Iraq 1963 CIA Baath Party and read a lot, make up your
own mind who to believe.
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
*May the only ones to touch your junk, be the ones you want to touch your junk.*
George W Bush
is responsible for the Iraq invasion of 2003 along with members of Congress, Republican and Democrat, who voted for the appropriations.I don't believe we can lay this on Clinton.
Who knew the president after Clinton would be much worse? And now Obama, we just can't catch a break.
blame
Yes but Clinton manufactured a bombing campaign in 1998 and in that same year made it the official policy to be regime change. He also changed the UN inspections agreements to whatever he wanted at the last moment infuriating him and provoking him not to cooperate.
GWB is definitely responsible for lighting the match and most of the carnage, but I think Clinton was pouring gasoline all over in advance so the match had something to light.
Don't Disagree, But
Both Bush and Clinton were foreign policy disasters, but let's not let Bush off the hook. The invasion happened on Bush's watch. He had the opportunity to change policy, but not the wisdom.
We didn't have a Ron Paul in the White House.
Well
Well do we both agree, at least, that Mark Sanford is a traditional marriage hypocrite?
heheheheh
Yes we do!
When I found out he and his wife worked on Wall Street, that was the end of my enthusiasm for him.
The war in Iraq has been going non-stop since 1990
Clinton's admin (same as it ever was) bombed it repeatedly. We just never heard much about it. I remember going to massive anti-war protests in DC throughout the entire Clinton presidency.
I think Bush Sr. was the real force behind the Iraq war and has been ever since. He is a true insider.
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you have a good point BUT
the elites behind all presidents since Kennedy are responsible for all those wars that occured.Clinton and Bush these were just puppets put into place so that Johnny 6 pack has a face to see on TV.
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sounds
Your comments sound too prison planet-ish for me..
American beauracrast have committed treason. Simple.
To pull this off, they became institutionalized sycophants.
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good point
That is were I discovered about Ron Paul.
(^_^)
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