Clinton's "lies"...

[conserv.pat15]

Was Clinton lying when he said that Saddam had WMDs?

 

[disneydude]

Was Clinton lying when he said that Saddam had WMDs?

OK....I'll bite.
I will say no. I don't think Clinton lied when he said that Saddam had WMD's - I think that he thought that he did or that they were being developed.

That said....I will also say that I don't believe that Bush lied when he said that he thought Saddam had WMD's.

The problem that I personally have with Bush and the administration is not that this particular issue was a lie or if they believed it.....the bigger issue was how they manipulated America's fears and used it as justification to invade Iraq, something that Cheney and Rumsfield had wanted to do for years and had urged prior Administration's to do...with no luck.

See...the bigger lie of Bush was in constantly misleading the American public by drawing links to 9/11 and preying on American's emotions for political purposes....THAT is the biggest Bush lie ( next to "I will restore honor and integrity to the whitehouse).

The Biggest Clinton lie: I did not have sexual relations with that woman. That was a lie.

 

[niftydrifty]

Evidence suggests that he was. He was a big fat liar. Click here and scroll down to "The Defector's Tale."

 

[ptsdkid]

Was Clinton lying when he said that Saddam had WMDs?

***No, Clinton wasn't lying when he said Saddam had WMD's. But the reason he had the balls to suggest such a fact--was only to take media heat of his affair with Monica. Bush & Company went to war with Iraq because Saddam refused to honor the 17 UN resolutions. The fact that Saddam had once used WMD's on his own people only helped as a bonus and further reason to attack Iraq. Had Clinton been blessed with a third term as president--Saddam would still be in power--slaughtering his people, and Mid East nukes would be pointed at our major American cities as I write.

 

[Navy Pride]

No I don't think he was lying.....Like President Bush he believed the intelligence he was provided........

 

[niftydrifty]

Looks like ya'll are happy to put your hands over your ears, keep the blinders on, and not consider the article I posted. Fine, if you don't want to believe Clinton was a big fat liar in this instance, so be it. If you're going to have opinions, they ought to be informed ones.

 

[Navy Pride]

Looks like ya'll are happy to put your hands over your ears, keep the blinders on, and not consider the article I posted. Fine, if you don't want to believe Clinton was a big fat liar in this instance, so be it. If you're going to have opinions, they ought to be informed ones.

So why are you so quick to discount the intelligence that he was provided that said Saddam had WMD......Damn I can't believe I am defending Clinton....

 

[niftydrifty]

So why are you so quick to discount the intelligence that he was provided that said Saddam had WMD...

That's not the point. discounting the intelligence doesn't make it a lie. There is evidence that Clinton may have disregarded the intelligence saying otherwise himself, but went forward with his lies anyway. check it out.

There can be no doubt that the Clinton administration knew of Kamel's testimony -- all of it – immediately. An August 1995 CIA intelligence report on Kamel's weapons briefing, in redacted form, was declassified in 1996, along with millions of other documents, as part of the Defense Department's investigation into Gulf War illness. The cable, headlined "Comments On Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction," is still publicly available on an online Defense Department database.