“Welfare Reform.” Is it even worth mentioning you were wrong?
“Iraq Sanctions.” Way to give Bush and his criminals another excuse to use their childish catchphrase, “Clinton did it, too!” Even Madeline Albright couldn’t completely deny the UNICEF estimates of over 500,000 dead Iraqi children. When she saw photos, she said they were faked. Okay, okay, I know you say we never stopped giving them food and medicine, and it’s fine to say that, but to tell you the truth, I don’t care whose fault it is. A dead child is a dead child, and you either helped cause it or did nothing about it. (See: Dante’s “Inferno”)
Oh, and who can forget about “Operation Desert Fox”? A bombing “campaign” designed to “weaken” Saddam Hussein’s “grip of power” over Iraq. “Clinton did it! Clinton did it!”
“H.R. 4655.” See quote above.
Remember your “1998 State of the Union Address”? That was a good one. Here’s my favorite quote of the evening: “Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade, and much of his nation's wealth, not on providing for the Iraqi people, but on developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them.”
Those ones were shipped to Syria, right? Or Jordan, or…what country are they now saying Iraq gave their weapons to so they couldn’t fight back when we invaded?
Bobby Kennedy admitted in 1968 that he’d been wrong about Vietnam. In 2008, you said you were against the invasion of Iraq from the beginning. No one I’ve ever met believes you.
“NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.” This one’s slippery. A U.N. Court ruled no genocide took place before the bombing. Slobadan Milosevic was only convicted of killing 600 people. Not that he shouldn’t have fried for that. But there were hundreds of thousands being slaughtered all over Africa. You and the Bushes never seemed to care too much about that. Not that I think we’re required to “save Darfur” by bombing it, either – though I’m not making too many policy decisions these days. Just seems like a double standard, is all.
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