“The Final Declassified Report of the Joint Inquiry [released July 24, 2003], the first congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks…notes twelve separate reports in the seven years before 9/11 suggesting that terrorists might use airplanes as weapons.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Pages 189-190 […]
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7/24/2003
“Within months of the 9/11 attack, Congress announced that a joint panel combining the House and Senate Intelligence Committees would investigate the biggest mass murder in U.S. history. Known as the ‘Joint Inquiry,’ the committees spent ten months covering thirty years of intelligence failures. They left out whole sections of the government–including the executive branch–and […]
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 […]
7/23/2003
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 […]
7/22/2003
Regarding President Bush’s claim in the January 28, 2003, State of the Union Address of Saddam attempting to buy uranium in Africa, Deputy National Security Advisor Steve Hadley said, on July 22, 2003: ” ‘I should have either asked that the sixteen words dealing with that subject be stricken or I should have alerted DCI […]
7/22/2003
“In July [22] 2003, U.S. Special Forces tracked down Uday and Qusay [Hussein] to a house in Mosul [Iraq] and killed them after a long firefight.” – John Yoo, War By Other Means, Page 50 […]
7/22/2003
In a press conference on July 22, 2003, Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley “accepted responsibility for allowing the sixteen-word sentence about the Niger deal [to sell uranium to Iraq] to remain in the [2003 State of the Union] speech. ‘I should have recalled at the time of the State of the Union speech that […]
7/22/2003
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, then-Commander of the ground forces in Iraq, recalled, on July 22, 2003: “Saddam Hussein’s sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed in a gun battle at their hideout in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In a very efficient operation, U.S. Special Forces and the 101st Airborne, upon receiving solid intelligence, surrounded […]