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 […]
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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 […]
3/17/2003
“In a speech to the nation on the Monday evening of March 17, 2003, [President] Bush said that ‘Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 135 […]
3/17/2003
On March 17, 2003, “Jay Garner, the retired American general designated by the Pentagon to be the point man in supervising Iraq in the immediate aftermath of war, arrived in Kuwait, where a staff of veteran diplomats and military officers was already at work, laying the groundwork for an occupation.” – Todd S. Purdum and […]
3/17/2003
On March 17, 2003, “UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said that any attack by the United States on Iraq without a further resolution would be a violation of the UN charter.” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 282 […]