Stephen F. Hayes reported "Baghdad" Jim McDermott(D) actually said, after 12 years of sanctions, that we should trust Saddam and that Bush is a liar, even as Congress voted overwhelmingly for the use of military force to execute the Clinton administration's policy of regime change.
trust Saddam
“I think the president would mislead the American people.”All while "Baghdad" Jim McDermott(D) was taking money from Saddam's agent Al-Hanooti's and lying about it.
“I think you have to take the Iraqis on their face value.”
Well... Steven Emerson has Exclusive Photos Show Al-Hanooti's Political Clout, Pictures with the three stooges, Hillary Clinton(D), Al Gore(D) and Syrian President Bashar Assad.
But take a deep breath...
Allahpundit
In a 1997 interview with this reporter, Muthanna Hanooti said that at the meeting, Mrs. Clinton was “very receptive” to his request for an easing of the American sanctions on Iraq that were in place at the time. He said Mrs. Clinton “passed a message to the State Department” about the need to implement the oil-for-food deal, which was intended to allow Saddam to sell billions of dollars’ worth of oil to pay for food for Iraqi citizens…
[T]o reporters on the foreign policy beat in Washington at the time and to those active in the Iraqi opposition to Saddam, it was clear whose agenda was being advanced. The news article in 1997, published in the Forward, that described Mrs. Clinton’s involvement with Mr. Hanooti began: “The American-led blockade of Iraq is crumbling, following an intensive, domestic lobbying effort that has involved Rep. David Bonior and Senator Abraham — and, according to some sources, Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
So I guess the Clinton(D) administration didn't really believe in regime change did they?
Now, why does this matter beyond exposing the usual hypocrisy of the (D)emocrats? Well, because Saddam supported terrorism, via Noam Sayin' at LGF:
1. U.S. Grand Jury Indictment of Osama bin Laden, dated November 6, 1998: Paragraph 4. “In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.”
www.fas.org...
2. Top secret Iraqi document dated March 28, 1992, lists Osama bin Laden as an asset of the Iraqi intelligence services.
www.defenddemocracy.org...
3. In 1992, Ayman al Zawahiri--who later became the Number Two in al Qaeda--visited Baghdad for a meeting with Saddam Hussein.
www.weeklystandard.com...
4. From 1999 to 2002, Saddam Hussein ran three training camps in Iraq that produced thousands of Islamic terrorists.
www.weeklystandard.com...
5. Saddam’s intelligence service gave Ansar al-Islam money and weapons.
www.iraqinews.com...
6. Iraqi memo dated November 22, 1999, shows that Saddam Hussein’s chemists trained “Arab fedayeen” how to make IEDs.
powerlineblog.com...
7. Iraqi memo dated March 11, 2001, shows that Saddam Hussein recruited suicide volunteers to attack U.S. interests.
powerlineblog.com...
8. 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta was trained by Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal in Baghdad in July of 2001.
www.telegraph.co.uk...
9. Members of an Iraqi secret-police organization called Unit 999 were dispatched to camps in Afghanistan to instruct Al Qaeda terrorists.
pierrelegrand.net...
10. Abu Nidal lived openly in Baghdad.
www.iraqinews.com...
11. Saddam maintained a terrorist training camp at Salman Pak near Baghdad where foreign terrorists were trained how to take over commercial aircraft using weapons no more sophisticated than knives.
www.nationalreview.com...
12. Iraq gave Abdul Rahman Yasin, a 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspirator, both money and sanctuary.
www.nationalreview.com...
13. Abu Zubayr, an officer in Saddam’s secret police, was also the ringleader of an al Qaeda cell in Morocco. He attended the September 5, 2001 meeting in Spain with other al Qaeda operatives, including Ramzi Bin-al-Shibh, the 9/11 financial chief.
www.nationalreview.com...
14. Iraq made direct payments to the Philippine-based al Qaeda-affiliated Abu Sayyaf group.
www.nationalreview.com...
15. Baghdad Trained al Qaeda Fighters in Chemical Warfare
www.dailytimes.com.pk...
President Bush listed 22 reasons to take out Saddam in his State of the Union Address. Yet with 400 tons, that's Four Hundred TONS of yellow cake uranium siezed, 1-1/2 tons of uranium that was enriched beyond the level required for fuel for nuclear plants Saddam didn't even have, with all of his Nuclear-Chemical-Biological scientists having fled the country, the (D)emocrats would have you believe there were no WMDs. Really? FARC has 66 pounds. Where did that come from?
Cross Posted at DANEgerus
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