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Saturday, January 26, 2008

10 Years Ago: Clinton Says Saddam Has WMD

This week is the 10 year anniversary of Bill Clinton's famous State of the Union speech in which he got a standing ovation after declaring:

“Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade and much of his nation’s wealth not on providing for the Iraqi people but on developing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them….I know I speak for everyone in this chamber, Republicans and Democrats, when I say to Saddam Hussein, “You cannot defy the will of the world,” and when I say to him, “You have used weapons of mass destruction before. We are determined to deny you the capacity to use them again.”

The Anchoress has more.

But then again, you can find most Democrats saying the same thing up until 2003 or even 2004...