” ‘We found the vans,’ [Secretary of State Colin] Powell told reporters on May 30 [2003], after the CIA publicly concluded that two truck trailers discovered by U.S. forces in northern Iraq were part of the fleet of mobile biological weapons factories he had described to the [U.N.] Security Council.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The […]
Category: quotes
5/29/2003
” ‘We have found the weapons of mass destruction,’ [President] Bush proclaimed the next day [May 29, 2003] in an interview with a Polish television journalist. …’You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons…and we’ve […]
5/29/2003
” ‘We found the weapons of mass destruction,’ President Bush declared in an interview with a Polish television reporter on May 29 [2003]. ‘We found biological laboratories. You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. […]
5/29/2003
On May 29, 2003, there was a “front page article in The Washington Post by Walter Pincus and Karen DeYoung that cited [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s prewar assertions about Iraq’s WMDs as a primary example of [Bush] administration statements that now looked wrong. (In an interview for the Post article, [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] […]
5/29/2003
“Information [was] released that day [May 29, 2003] by Representative Henry Waxman, a liberal Democrat [from California], showing that Halliburton–of which [Vice President Dick] Cheney had been the chief executive officer–had received more than half a billion dollars in military contracts relating to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in an arrangement that did not […]
5/29/2003
In an interview with TVP (Polish television) on May 29, 2003, President George W. Bush said: “We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They’re […]
5/29/2003
Then-U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote: “By the time of my visit to Basra [Iraq] at the end of May [29, 2003], [Secretary of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld had somewhat unhelpfully suggested that we may never find WMD, a prediction that turned out to be true but needed to be handled with some care. It was, […]
5/29/2003
“In Britain, [Prime Minister] Tony Blair was facing harsh questions about his government’s role in gathering and publishing what now looked like suspect intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs. In late May [29, 2003] the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that ‘one of the senior officials in charge of drawing up’ the September 2002 government […]
5/28/2003
“According to the director general of the National Mine Action Authority in Iraq, there may have been more than 600,000 tons of abandoned munitions throughout the country–enough to blow up every U.S. soldier in Iraq with about four and a half tons of explosives each.” From a Human Rights Watch interview on May 28, 2003: […]
5/28/2003
“On May 28 [2003], the CIA released a new and extraordinary six-page report declaring that a critical part of the prewar WMD case had been proven right. Earlier in the month, the Pentagon had announced the discovery of a tractor trailer outfitted with industrial equipment and maintained it was one of the mobile biological weapons […]