| | ::Well yes! Overseas adventures should be just like television! All neatly wrapped up in as short a time period as possible. --~ [[User:TK|TK]] <sup>[[User_talk:TK|MyTalk]]</sup> 21:51, 9 April 2007 (EDT) | | ::Well yes! Overseas adventures should be just like television! All neatly wrapped up in as short a time period as possible. --~ [[User:TK|TK]] <sup>[[User_talk:TK|MyTalk]]</sup> 21:51, 9 April 2007 (EDT) |
| | + | :'''GORE''': Well, when I got to be a part of the current administration, it was right after -- '''I was one of the few members of my political party to support former President Bush in the Persian Gulf War''' resolution, and '''at the end of that war, for whatever reason, it was not finished in a way that removed Saddam Hussein from power'''. I know there are all kinds of circumstances and explanations. But the fact is that that's the situation that was left when I got there. And '''we have maintained the sanctions. Now I want to go further. I want to give robust support to the groups that are trying to overthrow Saddam Hussein''', and I know there are allegations that they're too weak to do it, but that's what they said about the forces that were opposing Milosevic in Serbia, and you know, '''the policy of enforcing sanctions against Serbia has just resulted in a spectacular victory for democracy''' just in the past week, and it seems to me that having taken so long to see the sanctions work there, building upon the policy of containment that was successful over a much longer period of time against the former Soviet Union in the communist block, seems a little early to declare that we should give up on the sanctions. I know the governor's not necessarily saying that but, you know, all of these flights that have come in, all of them have been in accordance with the sanctions regime, I'm told, except for three where they notified, and they're trying to break out of the box, there's no question about it. I don't think they should be allowed to. |