“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 […]
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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 […]
3/18/2003
“On the night of March 18 [2003], White House press aide Adam Levine fielded a call from [Meet the Press host] Tim Russert. ‘All I can tell you, man,’ NBC’s Washington bureau chief said to him, ‘is you guys better find the WMD.’ Levine replied, ‘You’re telling me.’ Then the Bush aide said, ‘Either that, […]
3/18/2003
As reported by CNN on March 18, 2003, during his speech to announce his resignation in protest of the planned invasion of Iraq, British House of Commons leader Robin Cook stated: ” ‘Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term–namely a credible device capable of being delivered […]
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 […]