HELP>>> daughter needs some printed quotes that prove bush wanted Iraq

[greenbriar]

before he even became president


thank you

[China_cat]

1. Check the debates.

I forget which one of them (Bush/Gore debates) but he talked in one of them about going to war with Iraq then.

[greenbriar]

2. I am not good at searching

I have been rying but thought someone had it easily

[Solly Mack]

3. GOP Platform 2000

"Perhaps nowhere has the inheritance of Republican governance been squandered so fatefully as with respect to Iraq. The anti-Iraq coalition assembled to oppose Saddam Hussein has disintegrated. The administration has pretended to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power, but did nothing when Saddam Hussein’s army smashed the democratic opposition in northern Iraq in August 1996. The administration also surrendered the diplomatic initiative to Iraq and Iraq’s friends, and failed to champion the international inspectors charged with erasing Iraq’s nuclear, biological, chemical, and ballistic missile programs. When, in late 1998, the administration decided to take military action, it did too little, too late. Because of the administration’s failures there is no coalition, no peace, and no effective inspection regime to prevent Saddam’s development of weapons of mass destruction.

A new Republican administration will patiently rebuild an international coalition opposed to Saddam Hussein and committed to joint action. We will insist that Iraq comply fully with its disarmament commitments. We will maintain the sanctions on the Iraqi regime while seeking to alleviate the suffering of innocent Iraqi people. We will react forcefully and unequivocally to any evidence of reconstituted Iraqi capabilities for producing weapons of mass destruction. In 1998, Congress passed and the president signed the Iraq Liberation Act, the clear purpose of which is to assist the opposition to Saddam Hussein. The administration has used an arsenal of dilatory tactics to block any serious support to the Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella organization reflecting a broad and representative group of Iraqis who wish to free their country from the scourge of Saddam Hussein's regime. We support the full implementation of the Iraq Liberation Act, which should be regarded as a starting point in a comprehensive plan for the removal of Saddam Hussein and the restoration of international inspections in collaboration with his successor. Republicans recognize that peace and stability in the Persian Gulf is impossible as long as Saddam Hussein rules Iraq. "


http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/conventions/republican/features/platform.00/#48

[Solly Mack]

6. Bush quote to Mickey Herskowitz, a former Houston Chronicle

sports columnist who'd been signed on to ghostwrite his autobiography

"One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade---if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp06202005.html

[greenbriar]

7. that is perfect.

thanks

[Solly Mack]

8. Welcome.

:)

[rsmith6621]

4. Here

MODERATOR: People watching here tonight are very interested in Middle East policy, and they are so interested they want to base their vote on differences between the two of you as president how you would handle Middle East policy. Is there any difference?

GORE: I haven't heard a big difference in the last few exchanges.

BUSH: That's hard to tell. I think that, you know, I would hope to be able to convince people I could handle the Iraqi situation better.

MODERATOR: Saddam Hussein, you mean, get him out of there?

BUSH: I would like to, of course, and I presume this administration would as well. We don't know -- there are no inspectors now in Iraq, the coalition that was in place isn't as strong as it used to be. He is a danger. We don't want him fishing in troubled waters in the Middle East. And it's going to be hard, it's going to be important to rebuild that coalition to keep the pressure on him.

MODERATOR: You feel that is a failure of the Clinton administration?

BUSH: I do.
http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2000b.html


Thats the onl thing I can find...

[proud patriot]

5. 1998 pnac letter to Clinton

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

take a look at the signatures ....

[Botany]

9. Check the Houston Chronicle

In 1998 or 1999 he is on record as saying that when I am President my
war in Iraq will be .....

Bob Woodward's Book "Plan of Attack," which in Dec of 2000 had
bush, Cheney, Rummy, Woflowitz, and others in the Pentagon
in a briefing room going over Iraqi war scenarios before he was
sworn in

Check Paul O'Neil's book where he said that he saw maps for
Oil Fields in Iraq on Dick Cheney's desk in March of 2001.

PNAC's 1998 Letter to Clinton
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

PNAC's 1997 Statement
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

Richard Clark's book "Against all Enemies"
Clarke says that on September 12, 2001, President Bush "testily" asked him to try to find evidence that Saddam Hussein was connected to the terrorist attacks. After an initial denial, the White House has since conceded that the meeting took place. In response he wrote a report stating there was absolutely no evidence of Iraqi involvement and got it signed by all relevant agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the CIA. The paper was quickly returned by a deputy with a note saying "Please update and resubmit," apparently unshown to the President.