Not only that, but as American Scott Ritter, chief UN weapons inspector from 92'-98' has pointed out, Clinton used information gathered by the weapons inspectors to bomb Iraqi manufacturing facilities. (Ritter ended up quitting because of it - and yet Americans still believe that the Iraqis just kicked out the inspectors without provocation.)
The destruction of these facilities, and years of US-backed UN sanctions, make it higly likely that Iraq could have subsequently reconstituted their unconventional weapons programs.
Can't stop it?
Israel gets so many weapons from the US that they've become our military outpost in the mideast. As the Bush National Security Strategy (read it for a real scare!) and recent actions in Iraq demonstrate - we can do whatever we want to whomever we want whenever we want. We could stop Israel in a flash if we wanted to. And we wouldn't have to take away the weapons we've given them or bomb them either - mostly we just let Israel bulldoze the Palestinians (and the occasional American who gets in the way), but when we do sometimes tell them no, they back down.
If you look at what the "peace" proposals actually propose, it's always a matter dividing up Palestinian territory into little isolated garrisons that are unsustainable. But this is never described in the media (which has far more Jewish than Arab sponsorship) - so it looks like the Palestinians don't have any real gripe, and engage in suicide bombing just for the heck of it.
Our politicians haved "failed" at only what they were pretending to try to do, not what they meant to do...
It's certainly true that Bush II didn't start it and that Clinton was just as much part of it - Propping up Israel has been US policy all along.
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The destruction of these facilities, and years of US-backed UN sanctions, make it higly likely that Iraq could have subsequently reconstituted their unconventional weapons programs.
If you look at what the "peace" proposals actually propose, it's always a matter dividing up Palestinian territory into little isolated garrisons that are unsustainable. But this is never described in the media (which has far more Jewish than Arab sponsorship) - so it looks like the Palestinians don't have any real gripe, and engage in suicide bombing just for the heck of it.
Our politicians haved "failed" at only what they were pretending to try to do, not what they meant to do...
It's certainly true that Bush II didn't start it and that Clinton was just as much part of it - Propping up Israel has been US policy all along.