He had long been an enthusiastic advocate of overthrowing Saddam Hussein’s regime, co-authoring a 1998 letter to President Bill Clinton urging regime change in Baghdad. Iraq wasn’t the only Middle Eastern nation that Abrams helped destabilize. ..…

John “McCentury” McCain threatens to keep U.S. forces in Iraq for 100 years if that’s what it takes to “win.” . Now Obama and Clinton, in order to get elected, have had to posture as antiwar. ..…

Beyond them are a number of ex-Clinton advisers, including Gregory Craig, who oversaw State Department policy planning around the expansion of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and the decision by the Clinton administration to endorse “regime change” in Iraq. .....…

Bush and his successor Bill Clinton opted for a policy of dual containment of Iraq and Iran. ... Under this pressure, Clinton persuaded Congress to pass the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998 that committed the United States to overthrowing Saddam Hussein.  . ..…

Because it ended with NATO victorious and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic irreversibly weakened, it does not get the same level of attention as the 2003 Iraq War or the 2011 intervention in Libya.  ... The air campaign was poorly planned: Clinton administration officials believed a..…