A quiz for you all: Who made the following statements: 1) "The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." 2) "There has never been an embargo against food and medicine. It's just that Hussein has just not chosen to spend his money on that. Instead, he has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies." 3) "The United Nations has determined that Saddam should not possess chemical or biological or nuclear weapons, and what we have is the obligation to carry out the U.N. declaration." 4) Reagarding Un inspections in Iraq: "It is ineffectual; it is not able to do its job by its own judgment. It doesn't provide much deterrence against WMD activity." 5) "Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people." 6) "For the United States and Britain, an Iraq equipped with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons under the leadership of Saddam Hussein is a threat that almost goes without description. France, on the other hand, has long established economic and political relationships within the Arab world, and has had a different approach." 7) "We know he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons." 8) "This is not a time free from peril, especially as a result of the reckless acts of outlaw nations and an unholy axis of terrorists, drug traffickers and organized international criminals. We have to defend our future from these predators of the 21st century." Answers: 1) President Bill Clinton 2) Secretary of State Madeleine Albright 3) Defense Secretary William Cohen 4) National Security Adviser Sandy Berger 5) Sen. Tom Daschle 6) Sen. John Kerry 7) Al Gore 8) President Bill Clinton Of course, when they made these statements, in 1998, Bill Clinton was conducting a long-range bombing campaign to "degrade" Iraq's WMD capability. At that time, there was virtually no Republican dissent, because there was still an understanding that, in foreign policy, you didn't undermine the President.