"So, too, the Washington Post, which greeted the inauguration of George W. Bush in January 2001 with the admonition that
[o]f all the booby traps left behind by the Clinton administration, none is more dangerous—or more urgent—than the situation in Iraq. Over the last year, Mr. Clinton and his team quietly avoided dealing with, or calling attention to, the almost complete unraveling of a decade’s efforts to isolate the regime of Saddam Hussein and prevent it from rebuilding its weapons of mass destruction. That leaves President Bush to confront a dismaying panorama in the Persian Gulf [where] intelligence photos . . . show the reconstruction of factories long suspected of producing chemical and biological weapons."
As I stated the other day, being popular, in this case as President Clinton was, is easy when you stand by and do nothing and stand for nothing. He was always more concerned about what his legacy was going to be rather than making the hard and difficult decisions of defending the nation.
We're left with his legacy alright.
Thanks B.J.
2005-11-09
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Exactly. I am curious, though, since everybody really did seem to assume that Huissein had all those weapons, why did the Bushies trump some of the claims? It certainly makes sense to me that under the circumstances of 911 that Bush would declare that the time to end that problem had come, and there was only one quick way to do it.
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