Bush vs. Saddam, 2000 Style

Guess which presidential candidate in the 2000 presidential election talked several times of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Guess which candidate even threatened to go after Hussein if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Chris Bowers at myDD has done the research and found that then Governor Bush brought up the issue of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction numerous times during the campaign. Bowers quotes Bush several times on this issue. Here’s one such quote from Bush, from a presidential debate with Al Gore:

The coalition against Saddam has fallen apart or it’s unraveling, let’s put it that way. The sanctions are being violated. We don’t know whether he’s developing weapons of mass destruction. He’d better not be or there’s going to be a consequence, should I be the president.

Remember, this was eleven months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by Al Qaeda, not Iraq. I wonder if W stands for “Warmonger”, as many others have suggested.