Were ANY of those remarks made after 9/11, shorty? Do any of those remarks you quoted say anything about mushroom clouds, or aluminum tubes, or centrifuges, or mobile chemical labs, or Al Qaeda, or Bin Laden, or yellow cake, or a dozen other lies contrived by the Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal? The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 was NOT an Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) for regime change, shit for brains. Your attempt to conflate the two are absurd, uninformed and a desperate attempt to separate yourself from your initial stupidity to which I responded regarding the misinformation and propaganda campaign orchestrated by the Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal laying the propagandized groundwork leading to the Iraq War.Your obfuscation doesn't change a damn thing, fool! Everybody got the same intel from the same source which was under the DIRECT AUTHORITY AND CONTROL of the Chief Executive, BUSH. Don't pretend otherwise, shorty!Obviously, the chicken had to lay the egg first, shorty! What was the SOURCE from which Kerry and Clinton got that information, hmmmmm?Maybe those 5,000 lives lost were about these lies.
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003 | Source
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002 | Source
"There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering WMDs for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest."
--Ari Fleischer, Sept. 6, 2002 ~~http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Condoleezza_Rice_War_+_Peace.htm~~
"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
--Condoleezza Rice, Sept. 8, 2002 ~~Ibid~~
"There's no debate in the world as to whether they have these weapons. We all know that. A trained ape knows that."
--Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 13, 2002 ~~Ibid~~
"Knowing these realities, America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
--President George W. Bush, Oct 6, 2002 CNN.com - Bush: Don't wait for mushroom cloud - Oct. 6, 2002
Bush, Cheney & Co. were on a very hard push in the early fall of 2002 to falsify a basis for an Iraq invasion to get the desired WPA AUMF out of Congress to do a little Nation building, shorty! That propaganda was fed directly to Senators like Kerry, Clinton, et al. If Congress, both House and Senate, believed the lies from the Bush administration, well that only proves the Bush/Cheney cabal were fucking good liars.
You are totally full of nonsense. Kerry and Clinton got their intel from the CIA, FBI and several other foreign intelligence agencies. The same place that Bush got his intel. I have several dozen more quotes from Democrats that say the same thing.
The Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal dispensed that "intel" from the very same Executive Branch Agencies and Departments which was ALLOWED TO BE RELEASED by the Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal. The Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal didn't go begging for it, they ORDERED its "collection, composition and editing" and selected what was to be released to sell the Iraq War to the Electorate! Who was responsible for their intel if not the Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal? The secretaries in the reception areas of those Agencies and Departments or did the Buck stop at the desks of the Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal who signed off and propagated it through every media outlet as well as every member of Congress?
Certainly, you can't be trying to absolve the Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal from culpability for the statements made ONLY by Democrats which were entirely based on the pumped up, overstated and blatantly false characterizations configured by the Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal. That dog don't hunt, shorty!
The Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal started pumping out the BS "intel" in late summer through early fall of 2002 to get Congress to provide the Iraq AUMF. That is why I posted those four quotes from the Bush regime to display that nearly EVERYONE in Congress was told the same fucking horseshit and saying the say thing because they were all DECEIVED, but NOT THE ADMINISTRATION FUNCTIONARIES I QUOTED who created the distortions and lies that were repeated by many outside of that neoconservative cabal. It was a very successful propaganda campaign, SHORTY!
Try these on for size, fool. You might note the dates of the statements and I have many more as well.
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998 | Source
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998 | Source
"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction."
- Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998 | Source
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998 | Source
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton.
- (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 9, 1998 | Source
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998 | Source
This also seems to be germane:
"The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 is a United States Congressional statement of policy calling for regime change in Iraq. It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, and states that it is the policy of the United States to support democratic movements within Iraq.. The Act was cited in October 2002 to argue for the authorization of military force against the Iraqi government."
As well as the UN clearly stating that Iraq was in material breach of the UN cease fire. I suppose a dumbass like you thinks Bush did that as well.
Are you too much of a cowardly apologist for your corrupt faction to admit there was a deceitful covert propaganda campaign perpetrated by the Bush, Cheney & Co. cabal? Sunlight is sanitizing, shorty! Go to the light and cleanse yourself!
If I really wanted any shit out of you I would scrape it off of your teeth. The UN resolution was after 911 and Kerry and Clinton both voted to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq. Are you suggesting that they are stupid? Bush merely repeated what these leading Democrats had been saying for years and the intel he got from the CIA, FBI, etc.