“In 2003, the Defense Department conducted its own review of the limits that govern torture, in consultation with experts at the Justice Department and other agencies. The aim of the March 6, 2003, review, conducted by a working group that included representatives of the military services, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the intelligence community, […]
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3/6/2003
On March 6, 2003, “President Bush holds his last prewar news conference. The New York Observer writes that he interchanged Iraq with the attacks of 9/11 eight times, ‘and eight times he was unchallenged.’ The ABC News White House correspondent, Terry Moran, says the Washington press corps was left ‘looking like zombies.’ ” – Frank […]
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 […]
3/5/2003
“After lunch on March 5 [2003], [President] Bush met with a personal envoy who had been sent by Pope John Paul II to argue against the war. There would be civilian casualties, and it would deepen the gulf between the Christian world and the Muslim world, said the envoy…It would not be a just war, […]
3/5/2003
“On March 5 [2003], [chief UN weapons inspector Hans] Blix on the phone with [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice asked her point-blank if the United States knew where Iraq’s WMDs were hidden. ‘No,’ she said, ‘but interviews after liberation would reveal it.’ ” – Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 121 […]
3/5/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “199. France, Germany, and Russia stated on 5 March that they would not let a resolution pass that authorized the use of force. Russia and France, ‘as Permanent Members of the Security Council, will assume all their responsibilities on this point’.” – Commissioned by […]
3/4/2003
“On 4 March [2003] the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Russia met in Paris and declared that disarmament of Iraq through inspection was possible, and that inspection ‘was producing increasingly encouraging results.’ They repeated that ‘these inspections cannot continue indefinitely.’ ” – Clare Short, An Honourable Deception?, Page 251 […]