Oh, the noble Democrats! THEY didn't invade Iraq during the Clinton years becuase they really couldn't be sure about Saddam's WMDs and besides sanctions were working!

If this is so, why the scare tactics?

Here's a picture of Clinton Secretary of Defense William Cohen holding up a bag of sugar on ABC's "This Week" program to show how dangerous WMDs in the hands of a country like Iraq could be.



And here's a part of a speech he made at a DoD News Briefing on November 25, 1997.

"Iraq continues to evade and to deceive the United Nations inspectors who are working to destroy Iraq's program to build these weapons of mass destruction. If we can turn to a chart that many of you are now familiar with in terms of what Iraq originally stated it had in its possession, later determined to be outright lies, and there are suspicions on the part of the United Nations that there are much -- more volumes of these deadly nerve agents and chemicals than have previously been suspected.

As I point out on this chart, originally they indicated they had just a small quantity of VX. One drop on your finger will produce death in a matter of just a few moments. Now the UN believes that Saddam may have produced as much as 200 tons of VX, and this would, of course, be theoretically enough to kill every man, woman and child on the face of the earth."

Even Bush never hinted/suggested/subtly placed into the American subconscious/ the notion that Saddam had the ability to kill everyone on the Earth! No hyping intelligence here...everyone just move along.

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