Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix was interviewed by CNN war correspondent Christiane Amanpour on March 17, 2004. “Amanpour pressed him…why did the U.S. invasion of Iraq seem in retrospect such a foreordained action? Partly it was because, despite the lack of evidence for remaining WMDs, the Bush administration continued to believe in them, […]
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3/16/2004
“In [March 16] 2004 a Pew poll found al Qaeda’s leader [Osama bin Laden] had a 65 percent favorability rating among Pakistani men; the highest rating in any of the six Muslim countries that Pew polled that year.” – Peter Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, Page 400 […]
3/16/2004
“The [March 16, 2004] Pew [Global Attitudes Project] poll found that bin Laden is viewed favorably by large percentages in Pakistan (65 percent), Jordan (55 percent), and Morocco (45 percent), all key allies in the war on terrorism.” – Peter Bergen, The Osama bin Laden I Know, Page xxviii […]
3/16/2004
In a New York Times interview published March 16, 2004, chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said: ” ‘I think they [the Bush Administration] had a set mind,’ said Blix, ‘They wanted to come to the conclusion that there were weapons. …You could say that Iraq was perhaps as much punitive as it was preemptive. […]
3/16/2004
From “Findings” in the report “Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration’s Public Statements on Iraq,” prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman, dated March 16, 2004: “The Iraq on the Record database contains 237 misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq that were made by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Powell, […]
3/15/2004
On March 15, 2004, “In an Associated Press story titled ‘Officials Worry of Pre-Election Attack,’ USA Today quoted a political psychologist as to the ‘staggering’ implications of the [March 11, 2004] attack in Madrid [Spain]: ‘This is the first time that a terrorist act has influenced a democratic election. This is a gigantic, loud wakeup […]
3/15/2004
“The next chance to target [al-Qaida deputy Ayman] al-Zawahri came in mid-March 2004, former officials said. A detainee in U.S. custody passed along information about a possible al-Qaida hideout in the mountainous northwest Pakistani region of South Waziristan, where government troops, helicopters and planes were mounting a military offensive against militants. The CIA passed the […]
3/15/2004
“Forty democratic senators were gathered for a lunch in March [2004] just off the Senate floor. I [journalist Ron Suskind] was there as a guest speaker. [Senator] Joe Biden [D-DE] was telling a story, a story about the president [Bush]. ‘I was in the Oval Office a few months after we swept into Baghdad,’ he […]
3/15/2004
“As [chief UN weapons inspector] Hans Blix would later say (on the Today Show, March 15, 2004) about the Bush administration: ‘I think they had a set mind [for war in Iraq]. They wanted to come to the conclusion that there were weapons of mass destruction. …They were wrong. There wasn’t anything.’ ” – Vincent […]
3/15/2004
In March 2004, the Pew Global Attitudes Project “found that anger against the United States is pervasive and that Osama bin Laden is viewed favourably by 65 per cent of the people in Pakistan, 55 per cent in Jordan and 45 per cent in Morocco. Even in Turkey where bin Laden is very unpopular, as […]