Why do White House support Taiwan joining the WHO

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Kagan in today's Washington Post:

Finally, there's former president Bill Clinton. In a February 1998 speech, Clinton described Iraq's "offensive biological warfare capability, notably 5,000 gallons of botulinum, which causes botulism; 2,000 gallons of anthrax; 25 biological-filled Scud warheads; and 157 aerial bombs." Clinton accurately reported the view of U.N. weapons inspectors "that Iraq still has stockpiles of chemical and biological munitions, a small force of Scud-type missiles, and the capacity to restart quickly its production program and build many, many more weapons." That was as unequivocal and unqualified a statement as any made by George W. Bush.

Clinton went on to insist, in words now poignant, that the world had to address the "kind of threat Iraq poses . . . a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists . . . who travel the world among us unnoticed."

Oh well, impeachment was a lovely fantasy while it lasted. Strange, though, how it's an anti-right-wing fantasy here in the US, while in the UK it's an anti-left-wing fantasy.

Meanwhile, paraphrasing Christopher Hitchens on Hardball tonight: "If there truly are no WMDs then it would appear that Hussein is, by whatever process, disarmed... which he wasn't in 1998... and some people seem to be unhappy about that fact."