“One of the major findings in the Senate-House Joint Inquiry [which had the final report issued on July 24, 2003] into the intelligence failures that led to 9/11 was that agencies like the FBI failed to communicate with ‘local and state authorities,’ depriving the intelligence community of ‘access to potentially valuable information in the *war* […]
Category: quotes
7/24/2003
President George W. Bush: “Our brave troops still face danger in Iraq because there are people there who hate the thought of a free society. They can’t stand freedom. And they’re dangerous. But we’re finding these terrorists, as well, and we’re bringing them to justice. As you know, earlier this week, two of the favorite […]
7/23/2003
On July 23, 2003, at a briefing to confirm the deaths of Saddam’s sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein, Commander of Coalition Ground Forces in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez said: ” ‘Yesterday was a landmark day for the people and for the future of Iraq. Every single day we get closer to a secure and stable […]
7/23/2003
President George W. Bush discussing the future of Iraq with the secretary of Defense and Presidential Envoy to Iraq: “A free, democratic, peaceful Iraq will not threaten America or our friends with illegal weapons. A free Iraq will not be a training ground for terrorists, or a funnel of money to terrorists, or provide weapons to […]
7/23/2003
“The entire story [involving WMD in Iraq] may have been little more than a U.S.-sponsored psychological warfare effort–The Rendon Group’s specialty–to gin up the American public’s fear over Saddam Hussein. If so, it would have been illegal under U.S. law, which forbids the use of taxpayer money to propagandize the American public. ‘I think what […]
7/23/2003
“In a July [23] 2003 interview on CNN, former president Bill Clinton said, ‘People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted-for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.’ ” – Georges Sada with […]
7/22/2003
On July 22, 2003, “Uday and Qusay Hussein, the dictator’s [Saddam’s] vicious sons, had been killed in a shoot-out with the U.S. military.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 298-299 […]
7/22/2003
“Saddam’s brutal sons, Uday and Qusay, had been killed on July 22, 2003.” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 267 […]
7/22/2003
“On July 22 [2003], Newsday ran a piece by Timothy Phelps and Knut Royce that drew a new round of attention to the [Valerie] Plame leak. The story quoted unnamed intelligence officials confirming that Valerie Wilson was an undercover CIA officer working on WMD issues and that [journalist Robert] Novak’s [Bush] administration sources might well […]
7/22/2003
Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley said, on July 22, 2003: ” ‘I am the senior-most official within the NSC [National Security Council] staff, directly responsible for the substantive review and clearance of presidential speeches,’ he said. ‘I failed in that responsibility in connection with the inclusion of these 16 words [regarding a Niger-Iraq uranium […]