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Originally Posted by Confed999
But the reality there is that the US government was already sold on that, and simply waiting for an excuse. If that excuse had come durring Clinton we would have finished the Baath rule of Iraq then.
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Really? Sure the Pentagon had a plan ready, ordered by Clinton in the wake of Desert Fox, who thought Saddam might try again. But I don't think the Clinton administration was ever contemplating a pre-emptive invasion.
The PNAC report didn't come out until the 2000 election campaign. (And, sorry, it was called "Rebuilding America's Defences", not what I said -it's been a while-, I just checked).