1 year before Iraq invasion: McCain says no doubt Saddam has nukes and terror training camps!

[bushmeister0]

This is leadership? He's never said the invasion was a bad idea or he was 100% wrong, just that the implementation was screwed up.

"Just this week, the American people heard our President articulate a policy to defeat the 'axis of evil' that threatens us with its support for terror and development of weapons of mass destruction. Dictators that harbor terrorists and build these weapons are now on notice that such behavior is, in itself, a casus belli. Nowhere is such an ultimatum more applicable than in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Almost everyone familiar with Saddam's record of biological weapons development over the past two decades agrees that he surely possesses such weapons. He also possesses vast stocks of chemical weapons and is known to have aggressively pursued, with some success, the development of nuclear weapons. He is the only dictator on Earth who has actually used weapons of mass destruction against his own people and his neighbors. His regime has been implicated in the 1993 attacks on the World Trade Center. Terrorist training camps exist on Iraqi soil, and Iraqi officials are known to have had a number of contacts with al Qaeda. These were probably not courtesy calls. (The last time his pants were flaming this bad was on the USS Forrestal. Wow!)

Americans have internalized the mantra that Afghanistan represents only the first front in our global war on terror. The next front is apparent, and we should not shrink from acknowledging it. A terrorist resides in Baghdad, with the resources of an entire state at his disposal, flush with cash from illicit oil revenues and proud of a decade-long record of defying the international community's demands that he come clean on his programs to develop weapons of mass destruction."

http://www.usembassy.it/file2002_02/alia/a2020407.htm

Still waiting for the "liberal media" to call him on this. Obama's people should just keep repeating exerpts of this speech all the way to November.

[Richard Steele]

1. McCain: when he's not being dishonest, he's just plain WRONG.

Or napping.

[ck4829]

2. "only dictator on Earth who has actually used weapons of mass destruction"

Thank you for that, Ronald Reagan.