Comments on: Despite Gore's Nobel Climate Not Top Issue

Former VP In An Effective Advocate, But The American Public Focuses On More Iraq, Health Care

[taotxzen]

Prove what?

That you can lead a clueles, right-wing didohead to the truth, but you can''t make them think.

You are proof.

[mudrose-2009]

The conferees direct the Administration
to provide not less than $2,000,000 for the conduct of activities by the Iraqi democratic opposition inside Iraq." The president of the INC''s Executive Council welcomed Clinton''s signature of the Iraq Liberation Act, in an Oct 31 statement that began
by condemning Saddam''s suspension of UNSCOM monitoring, while hailing the president''s signing of the legislation and thanking the US Congress.
The statement concluded, "Saddam is the problem and he cannot be part of any solution in Iraq. Therefore, President Clinton''s action today is
the most appropriate response to Saddam. Let him know that Iraqis will rise up to liberate themselves from his totalitarian dictatorship and that the US is ready to help their democratic forces with arms to do so. Only then will the trail of tragedy in Iraq end. Only then will Iraq be free of weapons of mass destruction."
What about those appropriations?

[mudrose-2009]

Yesterday, Clinton signed into law HR 4655, the "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998." In a presidential statement, issued by the White House,
Clinton said, "This Act makes clear that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States should support those elements of the Iraqi opposition that advocate a very different future for Iraq than the
bitter reality of internal repression and external aggression that the current regime in Baghdad now offers. . . . On October 21, 1998, I signed into law the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental
Appropriations Act, 1999, which made $8 million available for assistance to the Iraqi democratic opposition. . . My Administration, as required
by that statue, has also begun to implement a program to compile information regarding allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by Iraq''s current leaders as a step towards bringing to
justice those directly responsible for such acts."
Indeed, Sec 590 of the omnibus appropriations bill stated that "not less than $8,000,000 shall be made available for assistance to the Iraqi democratic opposition. Of this amount, not less than $3,000,000 should be made available as a grant for the Iraq National Congress. The conferees also direct the Administration to provide not less than $3,000,000 as a grant to the Iraqi Campaign to Indict Iraqi War
Criminals to be used to compile information to support the indictment of Iraqi officials for war crimes.

[mudrose-2009]

Posted by taotxzen

Not impressed. Prove it.

[taotxzen]

Mudrose

You are all hat, no cattle.

[taotxzen]

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July 2002

Ministers were told of need for Gulf war %u2018excuse%u2019

Sunday Times of London, MICHAEL SMITH
JUNE 12, 2005

MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.

The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.

The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair%u2019s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was %u201Cnecessary to create the conditions%u201D which would make it legal.

[taotxzen]

There are very specific reasons why we are in Iraq. Nobody lied to get us there.

Albert Mudrose

July 23, 2002
The Downing Street Memo Meeting (7 months prior to the war)
Minutes detail how the British government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was "fixed" to sell the case for war to the American public; and how the Bush Administration%u2019s public assurances of "war as a last resort" were at odds with their privately stated intentions.
From the memo: The Defense Secretary said that the US had already begun "spikes of activity" to put pressure on the regime. No decisions had been taken, but he thought the most likely timing in US minds for military action to begin was January, with the timeline beginning 30 days before the US Congressional elections.
The Foreign Secretary said he would discuss this with Colin Powell this week. It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with the legal justification for the use of force.

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[taotxzen]

Come on, where%u2019s the empty rhetoric followed by an insult?

[taotxzen]

Heres a bid ofhistory for Mudrose regarding Bush being required to certify that action against Iraq would not hinder efforts to pursue the al Qaeda terrorist network in Afganistan:

July 2002
In July 2002, Bush Illegally Shifted $700 Million to Begin War on Iraq
Sun Herald, April 18, 2004
(Bob) Woodward said he found that the administration quietly shifted money around to pay for early preparations for war in Iraq, without the approval of Congress. He said those preparations included building landing strips and addressing other military needs in Kuwait.
The money, about $700 million, was taken in July 2002 from a budget item that had been approved for the war in Afghanistan, Woodward wrote.
"Some people are going to look at that document called the Constitution, which says that no money will be drawn from the Treasury unless appropriated by Congress," Woodward says in his CBS interview.

[taotxzen]

Since you take this position, I would have to say yes. It took an entire Congress to give President Bush an authorization to go into Iraq. Not the Repubs

The Greatness of Mudrose

You know what was also part of that same war resolution?

The resolution required Bush to pursue diplomatic efforts to enforce the U.N. resolutions prior to taking any military action. Bush never initiated those diplomatic efforts nor did he fulfill his obligation to Congress.

Bush was also required to certify that action against Iraq would not hinder efforts to pursue the al Qaeda terrorist network that attacked New York and Washington.

You tell me%u2026