“President Bush…asked the country to imagine how horrible it would be if one of the bombs [Saddam] made from this [alleged] yellowcake [uranium purchase] exploded in a mushroom cloud and destroyed an American city. But two weeks later [March 7, 2003], the head of the United Nations agency monitoring nuclear weapons proliferation, Nobel Peace Prize […]
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3/7/2003
On March 7, 2003, chief UN weapons inspector Hans “Blix informed the [UN] Security Council that Baghdad had tried to persuade the UN team that Al Samoud II missiles, which it had already declared, fell ‘within the permissible range’ set by the council. However, a panel of international experts had reached the opposite conclusion. Blix […]
3/7/2003
“[I]n his report to the UN on 7 March [2003], here is what [chief UN weapons inspector] Hans Blix said about Iraq’s cooperation. Having stated that it was increasing, which, as he put it in somewhat of an understatement, ‘may well be due to outside pressure,’ he then addressed the matter of interviews and documents: […]
3/6/2003
During a national press conference held in the East Room of the White House, President George W. Bush said: “In the event of conflict, America also accepts our responsibility to protect innocent lives in every way possible. We’ll bring food and medicine to the Iraqi people. We’ll help that nation to build a just government, after decades […]
3/6/2003
President George W. Bush, when elaborating on threat of Iraq, during a press conference in the East Room: “Iraqi operatives continue to hide biological and chemical agents to avoid detection by inspectors. In some cases, these materials have been moved to different locations every 12 to 24 hours, or placed in vehicles that are in residential […]
3/6/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “203. Mr Blair told Cabinet on 6 March that the argument boiled down to the question of whether Saddam Hussein would ever voluntarily co-operate with the UN to disarm Iraq. 204. Mr Blair concluded that it was for the Security Council to determine whether […]
3/6/2003
During a national press conference on March 6, 2003, President Bush replied to an inquiry from a member of the press regarding the threat of war with Iraq: “Well, Bill [Plante], if they believe he should be disarmed, and he’s not going to disarm, there’s only one way to disarm him. And that happens to […]
3/6/2003
“At a prime time televised news conference the next night, March 6 [2003], the president [Bush] repeated his case that Saddam was not disarming. ‘Iraqi operatives continue to hide biological and chemical agents to avoid detection by inspectors,’ he claimed. He said, ‘We’re still in the final stages of diplomacy,’ and added, ‘We’re calling for […]
3/6/2003
“On March 6 [2003], The Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward went on CNN’s Larry King Live and asserted that ‘the intelligence shows…there are massive amounts of weapons of mass destruction hidden, buried, unaccounted for’ in Iraq.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 207 […]
3/6/2003
“The origin of [Iraqi chemical weapons factory] Fallujah 2 was revealed in an article written by David Leigh and John Hooper and printed in Britain by the Guardian on the 6th of March 2003: ‘A chemical plant which the US says is a key component in Iraq’s chemical warfare arsenal was secretly built by Britain […]