Recent comments made by former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill should be taken with a "grain of salt." Most of it sounds likes sour grapes, which usually happens when a fired person talks bad about his former boss.

It turns out that O'Neill's so-called bombshell revelation that the Bush administration had a "secret plan" to depose Saddam Hussein before 9/11 wasn't such a secret after all. It actually was ratified by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton a full three years before President Bush came to Washington.

The 1998 Iraqi Liberation Act was passed by a unanimous Senate vote and a near-unanimous House vote. Former President Clinton signed it into law. What some people can't seem to grasp is that toppling Saddam has been a part of U.S. foreign policy since 1991. It was the same ideology and plans from the previous two presidents. Our current president wasn't the only one to act. To be fair, Clinton bombed Saddam on the day of his impeachment.

The idea that the United States government has plans for many different countries with dictators, such as Saddam and Fidel Castro, sitting on file in the White House is nothing new and no big surprise