What A Difference An Election Makes

President Bush finally found his backbone and has started responding to his detractors regarding the war in Iraq. The very same people who are criticizing him now, once had this to say:

Bill Clinton: If Saddam rejects peace, and we have to use force, our purpose is clear: We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

Hillary Clinton: In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock. His missile-delivery capability, his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al-Qa'ida members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.

Al Gore: We know that he has stored nuclear supplies, secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

Ted Kennedy: We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

Madeleine Albright: We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and the security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

Sandy "Stuffed Pants" Berger: Saddam will use those weapons of mass destruction again as he has ten times since 1983.

Harry Reid: The problem is not nuclear testing; it is nuclear weapons. The number of Third World countries with nuclear capabilities seems to grow daily. Saddam Hussein's near success with developing a nuclear weapon should be an eye-opener for us all.

Dick Durbin: One of the most compelling threats we in this country face today is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Threat assessments regularly warn us of the possibility that Iraq may acquire or develop nuclear weapons.

John Edwards: Serving on the Intelligence Committee and seeing day after day, week after week, briefings on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and his plans on using those weapons, he cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons, it's just that simple. The whole world changes if Saddam ever has nuclear weapons.

Carl Levin: We begin with a common belief that Saddam Hussein is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

Bob Graham: We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has and has had for a number of years a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

Nancy Pelosi: Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons-inspection process.

Carl Levin, Joe Lieberman, Frank Lautenberg, Chris Dodd, Bob Kerrey, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Mikulski, Tom Daschle, John Breaux, Daniel Inouye, Mary Landrieu, and John Kerry in a letter to Bill Clinton: We urge you, after consulting with Congress and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions, including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.

Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He used such weapons on Iran and on his own people. He never explained what happened to those weapons. In the run up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, he had plenty of time to move those weapons elsewhere.

It is not wrong to remove murderous dictators from power.

If only removing the overstuffed, overpaid, underwhelming, vainglorious poseurs in DC were as easy.