“On February 20, 2003, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld, again on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer program, said… ‘To the extent he [Saddam] is persuaded that it’s inevitable that he’s going to lose his position and his regime is going to be cast out, it’s at least possible …is it one percent? I don’t know. […]
Category: quotes
2/19/2003
President “Bush referred scornfully today [February 19, 2003] to giving Mr. Hussein ‘another, ‘nother, ‘nother last chance’ to comply with prior United Nations resolutions demanding that Iraq disarm.” – Richard W. Stevenson, “Antiwar Protests Fail to Sway Bush on Plans for Iraq,” The New York Times, Feb. 19, 2003 […]
2/18/2003
” ‘Iraq has tremendous resources…’ said White House press secretary Ari Fleischer [in a press briefing on February 18, 2003]. ‘So there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page […]
2/17/2003
“A Newsweek poll [appearing in the February 17, 2003, issue] taken just after the speech [by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003] found that half of all Americans surveyed were now ready to go to war, compared to only a third the previous month.” – Karen DeYoung, […]
2/17/2003
In an interview conducted by Nicholas Lehman that was printed in The New Yorker on February 17, 2003, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, articulating the rationale for an Iraq invasion, said: ” ‘[T]here have always been three fundamental concerns. One is weapons of mass destruction, the second is support for terrorism, the third is […]
2/17/2003
On February 17, 2003, Jacques Baute, Chief of Iraqi nuclear matters at the International Atomic Energy Agency, “concluded that the papers [alleging the sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq] were completely bogus.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 203 […]
2/16/2003
Regarding a February 16, 2003, statement from bin Laden: “It’s clear from this that the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, which set the stage for the carving up of the Ottoman empire between the French and the British following the end of World War I, plays the same role for bin Laden that the 1919 Treaty […]
2/16/2003
According to an article in The Los Angeles Times on February 16, 2003, regarding the imminent invasion of Iraq: “Of all the charges the United States has made, the most hotly debated are those linking Iraq and the al Qaeda network,’ the story said. ‘Without such a connection, the logic of invading Iraq as a […]
2/16/2003
According to an article in The Los Angeles Times on February 16, 2003: “Intelligence officials quoted at the time said they had identified six hundred to one thousand potential al Qaeda terrorists in cells around the U.S.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 438 […]
2/16/2003
According to an article in The Los Angeles Times on February 16, 2003: “In answer to reporters’ questions linking the al Qaeda threat to the impending Iraq invasion, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, ‘Why now? The answer is that every week that goes by, [Saddam’s] weapons of mass destruction programs become more mature [and] he […]