Posted by
Scott Slater on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:00:00 PM
By Scott F. Slater
11.17.2009
B. Hussein Obama is nearing his first year as president but acquaintances on the left try to defend the utter nothingness of his accomplishments by attacking the former president. The latest and most ridiculous rant I just heard was the whole WMD and the war in Iraq. In hindsight I’m sure President George W. Bush would have chosen other words to use for entering Iraq. Freeing millions of people from the devilish dictator, Saddam Hussein would have played better, after all the left does want to see people free right? Mr. Bush is now a citizen and as he heads for the horizon and into history, his presidency will be judged by the events leading to Operation Iraqi Freedom. The democrats have protested, criticized, and vilified the president about WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) and the war in Iraq and I’m tired of hearing about it so here goes:
Nothing will stop the left from blithering on about how President Bush lied and kids died and that he led American public blindfolded into an ‘illegal’ and ‘unjust’ war. Here are a few facts, yes the F word again. It is important to point out that many prominent democrats wholeheartedly agreed; Iraq and its WMDs were a threat to stability in the Middle East. They were for it before they were against it
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein received a crushing rebuke during the Gulf War after he decided Kuwait ought to be part of the Iraqi family and after a quick hind kicking the United State’s agreed to cease hostilities with certain stipulations or resolutions put forth by the United Nations Security Council. Of these resolutions the most important was the directive for the Iraqi dictator to dispose of his weapons of mass destructions and agree to regular U.N. inspections to track the disposals. U.N. Resolution 687 (1991) required Iraq to:
Destroy all of its chemical and biological weapons and all ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150km
(More specifically the Scud)
*Prohibited Iraq from developing nuclear weapons.
*Submit a declaration of its weapons programs and voluntarily agree to inspections by teams from the U.N.
There was no doubt the United States and the world knew Hussein had and used poisonous gases and biological weapons in his war with Iran and against Kurdish Iraqi citizens to the north. Throughout the 90s Hussein continued to thumb his nose at the United Nations’ resolutions and indirectly challenge the will of the United States to act. For the democrats to deny Iraq was a threat to the world flies in the face of the facts but as is all too clear, the truth never got in the way of democratic politics. Former President Bill Clinton told the American public on December 16th, 1998 just when he began to lob cruise missiles at Iraq, that Saddam Hussein should not be allowed to threaten the Middle East or the world with WMDs. Even the climate scientist, Vice President, Al Gore agreed. By the way, Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act, allowing for Saddam’s overthrow; by force if necessary. In the end Clinton and the democratic congress firmly agreed Saddam had to go and never again be in a position to rebuild his arsenal of WMDs.
Hussein stymied Clinton in his attempt get the dictator to comply; in reality there wasn’t any effort. Clinton however did have a chance to act decisively in October of ’98. Saddam Hussein ordered the American delegation of the U.N. weapons inspectors out of the country after he’d had enough of them sticking their noses in his business. Richard Butler director of UNSCOM, reported his irritation that Saddam Hussein stonewalled them at every turn. Clinton however put this on the back burner to attend to ..uh private matters. The point here is the United States had been at war with Iraq since 1991 but holding in a cease fire and little attention was paid. With the election of George W. Bush to the White House in 2001 the entire Iraq problem fell to him. There would be the slaying 3,000 citizens by Al Qaeda that needed attention first.
In November 2002 the United Nations Security Council issued Resolution 1441 giving Iraq a final chance to comply with Resolution 687. By March 2003 nothing changed and Iraq was still in material breach. The United States again sought Security Council authorization to remove Hussein and destroy the WMDs. The council refused to issue the authorization as they had done so many times previously except this time there was something a bit different. It seems a couple of sitting member countries on the Security Council – France and Russia - were up to their necks in kick backs from the scandalous Oil For Food program. This UN goodie allowed Iraq to sell oil to by food and medicines for his people. You’re right the same guy who tossed dissenters off the roofs of buildings, cut their genitals off, beat them senseless then bury them alive and have their entire families killed just for grins. Yep that’s the guy who the U.N. trusted to buy those needed supplies.
Look, the U.S. entered Iraq because there were WMDs and the United Nations knew it. Saddam Hussein played Hide-‘N’ Seek with the inspection teams and prevented them from searching the places known to have produced these weapons. Weapons of Mass Destruction proved a nightmare for the Bush Administration and the democrats made a great game of demonizing him to the American public with great success
The whole problem came down to this: the democrats had too much at stake to admit what, well, what they’ve already admitted; Saddam Hussein was a menace and an imminent threat. In the last election cycle did anyone ask VP Candidate Biden why he said, “If the United States does not force Hussein to account for the WMDs the credibility of the U.N. Security Council was at stake.” Oh and here’s this little tidbit about Iraq’s WMDs: Saddam Hussein himself told FBI interrogators after his capture that he had every intention on rebuilding his arsenal after the departure of the inspection teams.
Saddam Hussein ended up with rope burns and can’t talk these days but I’ll bet his Syrian pal, Bashar El Assad knows something. Here’s the really sad part, Assad wouldn’t share any of that with Traitor SanFranNan Pelosi when she assured the world in April of 2007, “the road to Damascus is a road to peace.” Gather your things, there a storm brew’n’ in Darfur and the libs might make your reservations for you