“For the new war [in Iraq, which launched on March 19, 2003]… More than five hundred journalists were ’embedded’ with American and British troops to offer grunt’s-eye views of battle.” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 74 […]
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3/19/2003
“By the time the war [in Iraq] began [on March 19, 2003], the Iraqi regime boasted that it had recruited four thousand jihad fighters, although U.S. military officials put the figure closer to two thousand.” – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 171 […]
3/19/2003
On March 19, 2003, “Senator Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat and country orator who had been among the handful of members to argue vociferously against war, made no secret of his gloom. ‘Today, I weep for my country,’ he said, adding: ‘No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent […]
3/19/2003
“On 19 March [2003], special forces started moving into Iraq and the US got an intelligence report that Saddam Hussein and his sons were together in a restaurant and an effort was made to bomb them. …For quite some time they did not know whether or not Saddam Hussein was alive.” – Clare Short, An […]
3/19/2003
President Bush “told [journalist] Bob Woodward…that after giving the order to invade [Iraq] in March [19] 2003, he walked in the White House garden, praying ‘that our troops be safe, be protected by the Almighty.’ As he went into this critical period, he told Mr. Woodward, ‘I was praying for strength to do the Lord’s […]
3/19/2003
“On the night of March 19 [2003], [President] Bush ordered an airstrike on a compound outside Baghdad in the hope of killing Saddam–and perhaps ending the war even before it started. Three ROCKSTAR sources [members of Saddam’s security detail who’d been recruited by the CIA]…had placed the Iraqi dictator at the site. But either their […]
3/19/2003
President George W. Bush speaks about the Coalition Forces in Iraq: “I want Americans and all the world to know that coalition forces will make every effort to spare innocent civilians from harm. A campaign on the harsh terrain of a nation as large as California could be longer and more difficult than some predict. And […]
3/19/2003
On March 19, 2003, President Bush “met with the NSC [National Security Council] in the Situation Room…Then a secure video link came up with [Central Command leader General Tommy] Franks [who was at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia] and nine of his senior commanders. It is likely the first time a president was […]
3/19/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “287. President Bush wrote in his memoir that he convened ‘the entire National Security Council’ on the morning of 19 March where he ‘gave the order to launch Operation Iraqi Freedom’.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The […]
3/19/2003
In an appearance on Meet the Press with Tim Russert on March 19, 2003, Representative Jack Murtha (D-PA) said: ” ‘There was no [Iraqi] connection with al-Qaida, there was no connection with terrorism in Iraq itself.’ ” – Douglas Feith, War and Decision, Page 611 […]