Friday, February 6, 2004
(Hat tip to mal - do you get a hat tip for pointing to an article from almost 4 months ago? Sure... [edit: Mal points out it was re-published today. My bad.])
This is the article Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol wrote back in October as a re-cap of how we got where we are. With all the partisan sniping going on these days, it's easy to get a bit lost. It never hurts to have a little refresher. They start with a quote from Bill Clinton.
"When I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for. That is, at the end of the first Gulf War, we knew what he had. We knew what was destroyed in all the inspection processes and that was a lot. And then we bombed with the British for four days in 1998. We might have gotten it all; we might have gotten half of it; we might have gotten none of it. But we didn't know. So I thought it was prudent for the president to go to the U.N. and for the U.N. to say you got to let these inspectors in, and this time if you don't cooperate the penalty could be regime change, not just continued sanctions."
-Bill Clinton, July 22, 2003
they republished it today, i read it 4 months ago,it is still one of the best esays on why we went to war
Gotcha. Correction issued.