|
|
The American public has a very short memory. Check out these words from Democrats presidential candidate John Kerry, speaking before the Senate in September 1997...
"We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. This is not a matter about which there should be any debate whatsoever in the Security Council, or, certainly, in this Nation. If he remains obdurate, I believe that the United Nations must take, and should authorize immediately, whatever steps are necessary to force him to relent--and that the United States should support and participate in those steps.
We must not presume that these conclusions automatically will be accepted by every one of our allies, some of which have different interests both in the region and elsewhere, or will be of the same degree of concern to them that they are to the U.S. But it is my belief that we have the ability to persuade them of how serious this is and that the U.N. must not be diverted or bullied."
Posted by at September 30, 2004 02:17 AM
Comments
But I thought Kerry only had one position? (snicker). I guess that Kerry has forgotten that the Senate unanimously voted to support the Iraq Liberation Act, signed into law by Clinton.
Posted by: William Teach | October 2, 2004 12:07 PM