Professor Limbaugh provides us with some American history that includes Tom Daschle:
John Kerry, January 23rd, 2003: "Without question we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator leading an impressive regime. He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. And now he's miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction."
His consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction. So the threat of Saddam Hussein, with weapons of mass destruction, is real. John Kerry, January 23rd, 2003. Here's another statement....
"If Saddam rejects peace, and we have to use force, our purpose is clear: We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
-- Bill Clinton, February 17th, 1998
"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and the security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction." -- Madeleine Albright, February 1st, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again as he has ten times since 1983." -- Sandy Berger, Clinton national security advisor, February 18th, 1998
"We urge you, after consulting with Congress and consistent with the US Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions, including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
That from a letter to President Clinton signed by Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, October 9th, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." -- Nancy Pelosi, December 16th, 1998 
"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
-- Madeleine Albright, Clinton's secretary of state, November 10th, 1999
"We begin with a common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations, is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." -- Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), September 19th, 2002
"We know that he has stored nuclear supplies, secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
-- Al Gore, September 23rd, 2002
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter, and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." -- Al Gore, September 23rd, 2002
Shall I continue?
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." -- Ted Kennedy, September 27th, 2002.
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of '98. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons." -- Robert Byrd (D-WV) October 3rd, 2002.
This is just but a small sampling, ladies and gentlemen, of words uttered by Democrats from 1998 through 2003 about the dangers posed by Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Many of these people -- the national security advisor, the secretary of state, the president, the vice president of the United States, were all citing intelligence. Now, would somebody explain to me -- and this is why I say the Democrats of 2005 have lost it mentally. They have become pathological. There's a psychological, deep psychological problem here. Somebody tell me, when this is known, when this is on the record, when this can be found, when anybody can look this up, when there is audio and video of most of these statements, how in the world do you make a case in 2005 that you need to be reelected because the president of the United States in 2002 lied to you, when you yourself, four years prior, three years prior to George Bush uttering a syllable about this, were saying the same things yourself? Carl Levin, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Nancy Pelosi -- these are all the card-carrying leaders of the left's anti-war brigade today. "Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction! Intelligence was manipulated! We were tricked!" How do you explain your consistency on this issue for five years prior to Bush, three years prior to him even assuming office? That's why I say, folks, that this isn't going to fly. The Democrats must still believe that they are alive and well 40 years ago when people like me didn't exist to go back and look at what they had said.
People like me didn't exist and there wasn't the ability to find what they had said because the mainstream media shut down a bit of research or didn't conduct it themselves into prior statements made years earlier that would contradict current statements, they could get away with what they wanted to. They still think they can get away with it, but they can't. This is some serious psychological problem. They think they can sell this? They do. They do. They really think they can sell it. They think this is going to launch them back to power in '06. They were hoping an indictment from Pat Fitzgerald would document all of this, making their job easier so they could launch impeachment proceedings. But ask yourself this question. Let's just play a hypothetical game. Suppose for the fun of it that they're right. Suppose Bush lied about everything. Suppose that there was no intelligence suggesting Iraq and Saddam were looking for weapons of mass destruction or ever had them. Okay, let's say they win this. What then? Has anybody heard a plan from them as to what to do next? If we get the world to admit, "Okay, Bush lied," then what? Well, you impeach Bush, but then what? Well, there's nothing, because they have no plan. They don't dare have a plan. They don't even know what their plan is. Their plan is one thing: getting rid of Bush and getting back in power. They don't have any other plan, they don't have any leadership ideas. They don't have any substance. They don't dare debate on substance. It's just get rid of Bush. It's get their government back. They had it for 40 years. "It's not right. It's not fair. It was stolen from us! They cheated us out of the election in 2000 and 2004 with voting machines, and people who are mean!"
They're probably even mad that their illegally registered voters don't get to vote anymore. They're mad the dead in Chicago don't get to count anymore. The deck is stacked against them. They used to run this. It was theirs by birthright. It was theirs by entitlement, and it's been stolen! It's been taken away -- and the last thing they're going to do is look at themselves and say, "Maybe we're not appealing to the people on the basis of who we are, what we believe." No, can't possibly be their fault. They're too arrogant, and they're living in their false reality. But you tell me that these statements -- on tape, on video, in print -- how they hope to gain an inch is beyond me. It ain't going to happen, folks. They don't have a prayer.
