Bill Clinton on Weapon
← Back to Bill Clinton ProfileSpeaking at a UK Labour Party conference in 2002, Bill Clinton, drawing on his own experience, cautioned against preemptive military action in Iraq due to its potential for unintended consequences.
“A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because … I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions — I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.”
Framing proliferation as a critical security threat, Bill Clinton's 1994 strategy prioritized stemming the spread of weapons of mass destruction and developing countermeasures.
“Weapons of mass destruction-nuclear, biological, and chemical-along with the systems that deliver them, pose a major threat to our security and that of our allies and other friendly nations. Thus, a key part of our strategy is to seek to stem the proliferation of such weapons and to develop an effective capability to deal with these threats.”