Bill Clinton Liar, Liar (Pants On Fire)

November 28, 2007

Hoping to improve his co-president's chances in Iowa, Slick Willie says he was against Iraq from the beginning. So just who signed the Iraq Liberation Act? Millard Fillmore?

Speaking in Muscatine, Iowa, on Tuesday, William Jefferson Clinton uttered perhaps the mother of all falsehoods when he tried to explain that wealthy people such as himself should pay more taxes in time of war.

Rewriting history, Clinton said: "Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning, I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers."

Liar William Jefferson Clinton

First, let us repeat our observation that if wealthy liberals feel they are undertaxed, they are free to write a check to the U.S. Treasury at any time.

But opposed to Iraq from the beginning? Perhaps he forgets that, with co-president Hillary at his side, he signed the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998. That law made it the official policy of the United States "to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace the regime."

Jay Carson, a spokesman for the Clintons, says Bill didn't mean military action necessarily: "As he said from the beginning and many times since, President Clinton disagreed with taking the country to war in Iraq without allowing the weapons inspectors to finish their jobs."

Are these the same inspectors that Saddam Hussein kicked out of Iraq in 1998, months before Bill Clinton launched air strikes against Iraq designed to take out Saddam's allegedly nonexistent WMD facilities? Explaining the air strikes to the nation in December 1998, Clinton said: "Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors."

Clinton added: "Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam there is one big difference: He has used them. Not once, but repeatedly . . . . The international community had little doubt then, and I have little doubt today that, left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use those terrible weapons again."

On July 22, 2003, Clinton called in to the Larry King Show to congratulate Bob Dole on his 80th birthday. When King asked him about Iraq, Clinton responded: "Let me tell you what I know. When I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for. That is, at the end of the first Gulf War, we knew what he had. We knew what was destroyed in all the inspection processes, and that was a lot.

"And then we bombed with the British for four days in 1998. We might have gotten it all; we might have gotten half of it; we might have gotten none of it. But we didn't know. So I thought it was prudent for the president to go to the U.N. and for the U.N. to say you got to let these inspectors in. And this time if you don't cooperate, the penalty could be regime change, not just continued sanctions."

Which is exactly what President Bush did. U.N. Resolution 1441 was the 17th and last in a series demanding that Saddam behave and the one that ordered Saddam to make a "full accounting of his WMD program and to cooperate with inspectors" or there would be "serious consequences." Saddam didn't and there were.

Bill Clinton supported both military action against Iraq and regime change from the beginning.

The Clintons better start telling the truth or there will be serious consequences at the ballot box.

Source: IBD Editorials

Posted by Hillary · Filed Under Bill Clinton, Commentary, Editorials/Opinion, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Flipflops, News, Top Story

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