December 9, 2002

U.S. called to get tough on Iraq

     Several prominent Democrats came out firing at Iraq yesterday and urged President Bush to get tough with Saddam Hussein

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut called the inventory of arms the Iraqi government submitted on Saturday "a 12,000-page, 100-pound lie."
 

Mr. Lieberman said Iraq's denial of having weapons of mass destruction contradicts intelligence reports he has seen, as well as statements made by Mr. Bush, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The senator noted that Iraq "told the United Nations during the 1990s, when [arms] inspectors were there, that they had chemical and biological" weapons.
     He said that such agents are "deadly in the hands of Saddam, who is a mass murderer."