” ‘We’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the eleventh,’ [President] Bush said prior to a cabinet meeting on September 17, 2003. ‘Now, what the vice president [Dick Cheney] said [on Meet the Press, three days earlier] was–is that [Saddam] has been involved with al Qaeda and [Abu Musab] al-Zarqawi, an […]
Category: quotes
9/17/2003
Regarding Vice President Dick Cheney’s comment that ‘we don’t know’ about a potential involvement of Iraq in 9/11, columnist Joshua Micah Marshall wrote, in The Hill newspaper on September 17, 2003: ” ‘By any reasonable standard, that’s a lie. …American intelligence and law enforcement have been investigating the Sept. 11 attacks for more than two […]
9/17/2003
“In September [17] 2003…even President Bush himself tersely conceded for the first time that there was ‘no evidence’ that Saddam played any role in the 9/11 atrocities.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 134 […]
9/17/2003
” ‘Our military is confronting the terrorists, along with our allies, in Iraq and Afghanistan so that innocent civilians will not have to confront terrorist violence in Washington or London or anywhere else in the world,’ Vice President Dick Cheney said in September [17] 2003.” – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page […]
9/16/2003
“…on September 16 [2003], the CIA provided the Justice Department with a memo outlining the results of its inquiry and requested that the FBI open a criminal investigation of the [Valerie] Plame leak. The CIA was asking the FBI to start an inquiry that would target the White House.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, […]
9/16/2003
“At a Pentagon news conference [on September 16, 2003], [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld was asked about a poll that indicated nearly 70% of respondents believed the Iraqi leader [Saddam Hussein] probably was personally involved [in 9/11]. ‘I’ve not seen any indication that would lead me to believe that I could say that,’ Rumsfeld said. […]
9/16/2003
A Boston Globe article on September 16, 2003, discussed Vice President Dick Cheney’s appearance on Meet the Press two days earlier. ” ‘Vice President Dick Cheney, anxious to defend the [Bush] White House foreign policy amid ongoing violence in Iraq, stunned intelligence analysts and even members of his own administration this week by failing to […]
9/15/2003
In a 42-page treatise in September 2003, titled Jihadi Iraq, Hopes and Dangers, al Qaeda Saudi cell operative Yusef al-Ayeri, aka Swift Sword, called for a strategy of isolating the U.S. by attacking its allies. ” ‘We think that the Spanish government could not tolerate more than two, maximum three blows, after which it will […]
9/15/2003
“…in a typical U.S. Army ‘comedy of errors,’ its intelligence officers were shocked to discover that many of the cryptologic linguists that they had in Iraq could speak Korean, French, Spanish, and other languages–but not Arabic. How they ended up in Iraq in the first place remains a question that army intelligence officials do not […]
9/14/2003
In an interview by Tim Russert on Meet the Press on September 14, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW [biological weapons] […]