1/27/1998

” ‘It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime.’ From the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, passed 360-38 in the House of Representatives and unanimously in the Senate” [Editors note: President Bill Clinton issued a Statement on Signing the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 on Oct. 31, 1998.]

 – Eds. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, The Iraq War Reader, Page 197