There was a time when Saddam Hussein's Iraq was considered the most urgent danger America faced.
...of all the booby traps left behind by the Clinton administration, none is more dangerous -- or more urgent -- than the situation in Iraq. Over the last year, Mr. Clinton and his team quietly avoided dealing with, or calling attention to, the almost complete unraveling of a decade's efforts to isolate the regime of Saddam Hussein and prevent it from rebuilding its weapons of mass destruction. That leaves President Bush to confront a dismaying panorama in the Persian Gulf [where] intelligence photos . . . show the reconstruction of factories long suspected of producing chemical and biological weapons.
And what right wing propaganda machine spewed this nonsense? Why it's none other than the Washington Post on On Jan. 29, 2001. This according to both Rick Richman, and Robert Kagan. Clearly, the rehabilitation of Saddam Hussein in the space of two short years is nothing short of miraculous.
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