As reported by the Oil Daily on May 8, 2003, CEO of Halliburton Energy Group John Gibson said: ” ‘We hope Iraq will be the first domino and that Libya and Iran will follow. We don’t like being kept out of markets, because it gives our competitors an unfair advantage.’ ” – Antonia Juhasz, The […]
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5/7/2003
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was questioned during a press briefing on Iraq on May 7, 2003: “Q: Well, we went to war, didn’t we, to find these–because we said that these weapons were a direct and imminent threat to the United States? Isn’t that true? MR. FLEISCHER: Absolutely. One of the reasons that […]
5/7/2003
In a join press conference with President Anzar of Spain, President George W. Bush had this to say: “Yes, listen, we have — we discussed the resolution today. We believe there is a mood to work together to achieve a resolution that will expedite the reconstruction of Iraq. The read from at least our diplomats at the […]
5/6/2003
A New York Times article on May 6, 2003, “by Nicholas Kristof, bore the headline ‘Missing in Action: Truth.’ Noting that no weapons had been found in Iraq, Kristof suggested the White House had ignored evidence that they were never there. Reprising the sixteen words in the State of the Union about the Niger intelligence, […]
5/6/2003
“On May 6 [2003], without mentioning former ambassador Joseph Wilson by name, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published the first account of Wilson’s trip to Africa. ‘I’m told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president’s [Dick Cheney’s] office asked for an investigation of the […]
5/6/2003
“On 6 May [2003], [President] Bush announced that Paul Bremer would become the top civilian administrator in Iraq [as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority].” – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 105 […]
5/6/2003
“On May 6 [2003], New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a column suggesting that in the lead-up to the war [in Iraq] the [Bush] administration had used intelligence that it had known to be false. Citing anonymous sources, Kristof wrote that the Vice President’s [Dick Cheney’s] office had asked for an investigation into a […]
5/5/2003
“They [the FBI] were slow to allocate resources to study and combat Sunni Islamic radicalism in general. They saw Shiite Iran as the primary fountainhead of religiously motivated terrorism. ‘Did we screw up, in retrospect?’ asked [President] Clinton’s national security adviser, Tony Lake, years later [in a May 5, 2003 interview], speaking of this broad […]
5/5/2003
” ‘Al Qaeda is here in the Kingdom, [CIA director George] Tenet told Crown Prince Abdullah in Saudi Arabia [following terrorist attacks that targeted Americans in early May 2003]. They will kill you. They are using your country as a launching ground for attacks on the United States. If that happens, it is all over […]
5/5/2003
In Iraq, “The first mass grave [as a result of Ba’ath Party atrocities] was uncovered near the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, in early May 2003. By the standards of later mass graves, this one, in the village of Imam Bakr, was small, containing nearly fifty bodies. However, the US military, which controlled the […]