Bill Clinton

Throughout the 1990s, the United States has on occasion used military force to keep Iraq from invading neighboring countries and to quell the dangerous and tyrannical ambitions of Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein. In the following viewpoint, Bill Clinton argues that such military intervention in Iraq is justified. In this particular case, Clinton maintains that air strikes may be necessary to diminish the threat of Iraq’s weapons-of-massdestruction program. Clinton is the forty-second president of the United States.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. When did Saddam Hussein agree to make a total declaration of Iraq’s weapons capability?
2. Since the Gulf War, in what ways has the United States responded to Saddam Hussein’s threats, according to the author? 3. In Clinton&rsquo...