Political Quotes

“here we go on and we go back to President Clinton on February 17, 1998, talking about the kind of environment that we see in Iraq and the kind of folks that we are trying to work on and taking a look at denial and deception. But how did Iraq work? This is President Clinton's description in 1998: ``Iraq repeatedly made false declarations about the weapons that it had left in its possession after the Gulf War. When UNSCOM,'' that is, the UN inspectors, ``would then uncover evidence that gave lie to those declarations, Iraq would simply amend the reports. ``Iraqi agents have undermined and undercut UNSCOM. They've harassed the inspectors, lied to them, disabled monitoring cameras, literally spirited evidence out of the back doors of suspect facilities as inspectors walked through the front door. And our people were there observing it and had the pictures to prove it. ``If he refuses or continues to evade his obligations through more tactics of delay and deception, he and he alone will be to blame for the consequences.'' September 9: ``We've pushed and pushed some more to help UNSCOM,'' this is Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, ``break through the smokescreen of lies and diction put out by the Iraqi regime . . . '' `` . . . UNSCOM was able for the first time to conduct inspections of sensitive sites where it found new evidence that Iraq had lied about the size of its chemical weapons stock.'' These are really interesting quotes, considering the debate.…”