Political Quotes

“what we know is through the 1990s, there was a consensus that there was a war on terrorism that was being fought, that there were issues dealing with Iraq and dealing with Saddam Hussein. It was not only the President; it was the Clinton administration. Madeleine Albright said ``Hussein's weapons will not discriminate if and when they are used, and therefore it is important for the region to understand that he is a threat.'' In September 1998 she said, ``Our adversaries are likely to avoid traditional battlefield situations because there American dominance is well-established. We must be concerned instead about weapons of mass destruction and by the cowardly instruments of sabotage and hidden bombs. These unconventional threats endanger not only our Armed Forces, but all Americans and America's friends everywhere.'' That is September 9, 1998. So the threat of weapons of mass destruction, but most importantly the larger threat not specifically identifying what terrorist organizations would use, but recognizing the emergence of a different kind of threat to American, to Western Europe as the Cold War collapsed of unconventional threats that would endanger not military folks, but that would target civilians.”