Wag the dog.

[TEXASYANKEE]

Folks, I am in dire need of some 1998 quotes from Republican congresspeople who spoke up when Clinton bombed Iraq. I know that his action was not supported by Congress at the time, and I need some quotes and facts to help me debate a Freeper.

Can anyone point me to a source?

[eyesroll]

1. Here you go:

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/08/21newsc.html

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/1998/cyb19980821.asp

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14770


And more with this search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Clinton+Wag+the+dog+1998

[zbdent]

2. Have fun with this 1996!

I know that it's not 1998, but it is setting the tone!

From the Congressional record online:

PRESIDENT GOING BEYOND MANDATES OF U.N. RESOLUTION (House of Representatives - September 12, 1996)


(Mr. WELDON asked and was given permission to address theHouse for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I am outraged at what is currently happening here--comments being made.

First of all, there is no Member of this body who does not fully support our troops. Let us make that statement known up front. In fact we on this side have restored $8 billion of cuts that this administration made to support those troops.

What is happening right now is that this President is going beyond the mandates of the U.N. resolution, which do not give the United States unilateral authority to go in and take action in Iraq. There is no provision in there for unilateral action. The allies are not behind us, as President Bush had when he went in there in the first place. In fact, Saudi Arabia is now considering denying us basing rights for the F-117's.




We know nothing about what is occurring. As a senior member of the Committee on National Security, I asked our chairman, who has not been briefed, about what is occurring, and we are about to send our young pilots into harm's way with no plan, no functionary understanding for us in this Congress about what the ultimate game plan is.

The War Powers Act requires this President to consult with us, and we in this institution should demand that take place.

If anyone wants to charge politics, I would say the politics is this administration rushing to send our troops into harm's way with no justifiable situation that merits that action.

END

[stevedeshazer]

3. That's a good one

I can smell the hypocrisy.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Here's a couple....

Coats, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement, "While there is clearly much more we need to learn about this attack and why it was ordered today, given the president's personal difficulties this week, it is legitimate to question the timing of this action. - Sen. Dan Coats

And Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.), who called on Clinton to resign after his speech Monday, said: "The president has been consumed with matters regarding his personal life. It raises questions about whether or not he had the time to devote to this issue, or give the kind of judgment that needed to be given to this issue to call for military action."

Sorry, I've got to run....major system problem.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

5. oh here's a great one - oh man.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1571/2_15/53552708/p1/article.jhtml which is a mirror of an "Insight on the News", Jan 11, 1999 article by Paul M. Rodriguez.

<some snippets>
Clinton escalates his animosity toward congressional probers under the misguided sense that blaming accusers Henry Hyde or Dan Burton or Bob Livingston somehow will legitimize his own wrongdoing and avoid impeachment. Like Saddam, he likes to rattle the saber to pose as a swordsman.

<endquote>

<and here's the ULTIMATE snip, that's right folks here's Paul saying that Clinton shouldn't have attacked Osama!!>
Has anyone ever figured out why, in August, there was a sudden need to send U.S. warships and planes to bomb sites in the Sudan and Afghanistan to "stop" Osama bin Laden?

<endquote>

HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH! ok, now that I'm done laughing I'm very scared of Republicans who consume the horseshit served to them by their handlers.