Regime change in Iraq had been American policy since Bill Clinton's Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.
Since the passage of the Iraq Liberation Act three years ago, we have fought to provide support for Iraqis inside Iraq.
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In 1998, Bob Kerrey, John McCain, and I sponsored the Iraq Liberation Act declaring it national policy to change the regime in Baghdad.
This plan ultimately gave rise to the Iraq Liberation Act that was adopted by overwhelming, bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed into law by Bill Clinton.
Although America's Congress has passed an Iraq Liberation Act, which would authorise it, the United States has not yet given any military training to Iraqi opposition groups in exile.
Not two months after he signed the Iraq Liberation Act into law, President Clinton delivered an address to the nation explaining his decision to order air strikes against Iraqi military targets.
In the years that followed enactment of the Iraq Liberation Act, State and the CIA did everything possible most notably withholding duly appropriated funds intended for INC operations inside and outside of Iraq, and systematically smearing the organization and its leader to discredit and impede Chalabi's agenda.
The Center for Security Policy has long believed that the liberation of Iraq was every bit as important strategically as was the liberation of Kuwait.
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Already since Iraq's liberation talk of reform and democracy is more common and more intense in the Arab world.
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It is now safe to conclude as well that Saddam bequeathed a frightening legacy to post-liberation Iraq: the Weapons of Mass Destruction still at large in Iraq.
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While Chalabi offered gratitude to the coalition for Iraq's liberation, he also expressed irritation that the coalition has not provided more assistance in cities such as Nasiriya and Basra.
Needless to say, Free Iraqis need to be fully "embedded, " as well, in the development and constituting of a transitional authority capable of governing Iraq once its liberation is secured.
As has been pointed out innumerable times since, if Iraq turns out to be a truly "great achievement" in any ordinary sense of the word, Mr. Biden and Barack Obama - two of the most insistent opponents of George W. Bush's efforts to consolidate Iraq's liberation - are among the last people in Washington who should take such credit.
In the wake of the recent revelation of a National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) report about the discovery in Iraq of some 500 chemical weapons, the House Armed Services Committee took testimony from military intelligence and civilian experts about the threat posed - both before and after Iraq's liberation - by these and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) amassed by the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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Mr. Gaffney's testimony drew on the 2004 findings of the Iraq Survey Group, which - despite concerted efforts by critics of the Bush Administration and its liberation of Iraq to obscure a number of the ISG's most important conclusions - established that Saddam maintained active chemical and biological weapons programs until he was toppled, programs that he intended to greatly expand once sanctions were lifted.
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If he wishes to lick the "Vietnam syndrome" once and for all, Mr. Bush must bring to the liberation of Iraq the same determination, vision and unconstrained willingness to commit American resources that so brilliantly achieved the liberation of Kuwait.
Had it done so, the Coalition's inability to date to seize any of Iraq's WMD might reasonably have given rise to a demand that the U.S. now reverse the liberation of Iraq and reinstate a "changed" Saddam!
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It will take nothing less to make sure the resulting liberation of Iraq comes out right.
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Thus inspired, let me cavil a little bit about the glorious American liberation of Iraq.
Our success around the world depends in part on our now ensuring that something better emerges from the liberation of Iraq.
Australia, Poland and the United Kingdom have been in combat alongside US forces since the beginning of the liberation of Iraq.
The looting, he suggested, was "part of the price" for what the United States and Britain have called the liberation of Iraq.
The commission has allowed itself to be used as a political instrument by critics of President Bush and his liberation of Iraq.
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And they have played a leading role in national campaigns aimed at undoing the PATRIOT Act and preventing the liberation of Iraq.
And in 2002, he helped start the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq with a purpose of building public support for the war.
It concludes that an effort by the Pentagon's policy organization to critique intelligence assessments prior to the liberation of Iraq involved "inappropriate" behavior.
No less significant, he did so after winning overwhelming, bipartisan support for the liberation of Iraq from a Congress that had one chamber in Democratic control.
If the liberation of Iraq proceeds smoothly, the old men, who kept quieter about the war, may regain their credibility in the eyes of the young.
"I am not seeking any positions - my job will end with the liberation of Iraq from Saddam's rule, " he said before the start of the US-led war.
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