President Bill Clinton ordered four days of bombing of Iraqi weapons facilities in 1998, under the 1991 resolution authorizing military force in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Describing that event in an interview with CBS News yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said: 'We went to war in 1998 because of concerns about his weapons of mass destruction.'"
Asterisks Dot White House's Iraq Argument
By Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, November 12, 2005; A01
President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions have determined that the administration did not misrepresent the intelligence.
Neither assertion is wholly accurate. <...>
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