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 […]
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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 […]
3/18/2003
U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said, while speaking to the House of Commons on July 14, 2004: ” ‘Through all the conversations I had with [chief UN weapons inspector] Hans Blix, he never once suggested to me that Saddam Hussein was complying fully [with UN resolutions to disarm]. He used to say, *Well, he’s co-operating […]
3/18/2003
According to The Wall Street Journal on March 18, 2003: “A cache of documents discovered by U.S. agents in Bosnia in 2002 disclosed a so-called Golden Chain of bin Laden’s top twenty Saudi financial supporters. The list included the families of three billionaire Saudi banking tycoons, several leading industrialists, and one ex-government minister.” – Gerald […]
3/18/2003
On March 18, 2003, “a letter went out from [President] Bush to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert [R-IL] and President Pro Tempore of the Senate Ted Stevens [R-AK] declaring that having determined that further diplomacy would not ‘adequately protect the national security of the United States,’ he was acting to take…’the necessary actions against […]
3/18/2003
“…on March 18, 2003, only a few days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq was to begin, the Iraqi government suddenly switched off all telephone service across Iraq, and the use of satellite and mobile phones was specifically banned by the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior, even by foreign reporters based in Baghdad. This closed […]
3/18/2003
In a speech to the House of Commons on March 18, 2003, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said the possibility of terrorist groups ” ‘in possession of weapons of mass destruction or even of a so-called dirty radiological bomb–is now, in my judgment, a real and present danger to Britain and its national security. Let […]
3/18/2003
On March 18, 2003, Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi television. “With a pistol holstered at his right hip, he railed at the ‘American, English and Zionist invading aggressors,’ and warned that they faced defeat. …he denounced Bush’s ultimatum [that Saddam and his sons leave the country] as ‘debased and baseless,’ and said it represented ‘a […]
3/18/2003
“On March 18 [2003], the day after [President] Bush delivered his ultimatum [that Saddam and his sons had 48 hours to leave Iraq], [U.K. Prime Minister] Tony Blair staved off opposition from members of his own Labour Party and at last won the support of the House of Commons to disarm Iraq by ‘all means […]
3/18/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “[UK] Parliamentary debate and vote on [the use of military action in] Iraq.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, March 18, 2003 […]