“Earlier, on August 20, 1998, as special prosecutor Ken Starr’s investigation of the president’s alleged indiscretions with Monica Lewinsky was reaching a climax, cruise missiles had been fired at the Sudan and Afghanistan, aimed at punishing Osama bin Laden for the bombing of U.S. embassies in East Africa on August 7. They failed to hit bin Laden, and evidence soon surfaced that the ‘chemical weapons plant’ they destroyed in the Sudan was not a munitions facility at all, but rather a pharmaceutical factory producing vital medicines for civilian purposes.”
– Eds. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, The Iraq War Reader, Page 205