History keeps changing

At PBS, Gwen Ifill interviews Al Gore:

GWEN IFILL: Are you suggesting that President Bush deliberately misled the American people when it comes to the Iraq war?



AL GORE: Well, there was certainly a coordinated effort in the White House and in the Department of Defense simultaneously to convey the image of a mushroom cloud exploding over an American city and to link it to a specific scenario, the very strong and explicit implication that Saddam Hussein was going to develop nuclear weapons and give them to Osama bin Laden, and that would result in nuclear explosions in American cities. [emphasis added]

No one at PBS would ever ask if the Clinton-Gore administration was lying when it said the same things about Saddam. Take for example, this Feb. 17, 1998 Clinton speech (full text here):

And they will be all the more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. We simply cannot allow that to happen.

There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein's Iraq. His regime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region and the security of all the rest of us.....

And some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal. And I think every one of you who's really worked on this for any length of time believes that, too. [emphasis added]