posted on March 2, 2003 07:04:15 PM new
"See if you can guess who said this: 'Saddam has driven everybody to the edge here. . . . [The president] has more approval to go ahead with military force now than at any time since the Gulf War. . . . The goals of the administration are really pretty clear, and that's to raise the price for Saddam if he wants to keep making these weapons. . . . We don't want him to have anthrax. . . . Do you seriously think if there is an air campaign that people are going to go into the streets and countries are going to condemn America for taking that action? The world wants to be rid of Saddam Hussein. '
"The answer: Eleanor Clift, on 'The McLaughlin Group.' The date was Nov. 13, 1998. Now that a Republican is president, of course, Clift is one of Saddam's shrillest defenders.
posted on March 2, 2003 07:08:52 PM new
...And Her King
"What if (Saddam Hussein) fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? . . . Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal."
- Bill Clinton, 1998...long before he began criticizing now-President Bush who is taking the exact same position and making the exact same case
posted on March 2, 2003 07:10:37 PM new
...And Their Cousin
"I have stated over and over on this floor that I would...object and fight against any filibuster on a judge, whether it is somebody I opposed or supported. . . . If we don't like somebody the president nominates, vote him or her up or down. But don't hold him in unconscionable limbo, because in doing that, the minority of senators really shame all senators."
- Sen. Patrick Leahy, Vermont Democrat, back in 1998...long before he began supporting the filibuster to block President Bush's judicial nominee Miguel Estrada
posted on March 2, 2003 08:14:18 PM new
The liberals are scared sh*tless that if Bush has a successful presidency through his foreign policy, they won't be able to get a dog catcher elected.
