Upper Left Coast

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Quote of the Day

From Vice President Dick Cheney's Monday speech before the American Enterprise Institute (emphasis mine):
In August of 1998, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution urging President Clinton take "appropriate action" to compel Saddam to come into compliance with his obligations to the Security Council. Not a single senator voted no. Two months later, in October of '98 — again, without a single dissenting vote in the United States Senate — the Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act. It explicitly adopted as American policy supporting efforts to remove Saddam Hussein's regime from power and promoting an Iraqi democracy in its place. And just two months after signing the Iraq Liberation law, President Clinton ordered that Iraq be bombed in an effort to destroy facilities that he believed were connected to Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs.
But Saddam isn't a threat.
And the president misled us.
And there was no connection between Al-Queda and Saddam.
And . . .

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