” ‘There is a problem–the probable possession of weapons of mass destruction by an uncontrollable country, Iraq,’ said French President Jacques Chirac [in an interview on February 16, 2003]. He added, ‘The international community is right…in having decided Iraq should be disarmed.’ ” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 434 […]
Category: quotes
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 […]
2/15/2003
In a speech to the Glasgow Conference on February 15, 2003, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said: ” ‘I continue to want to solve the issue of Iraq and weapons of mass destruction through the UN.’ ” – Robin Cook, The Point of Departure, Pages 310-311 […]
2/15/2003
In February 2003, “chief [UN] weapons inspector, Hans Blix, told the [UN] Security Council that his colleagues had failed to discover any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Tyler Drumheller with Elaine Monaghan, On The Brink, Page 103 […]
2/15/2003
“…a February 2003 CIA Intelligence Assessment anticipated Iraqi options for BW [biological weapons] (and CW [chemical weapons]) use against the United States and other members of the Coalition; the report stated that Iraq ‘maintains a wide range of…biological agents and delivery systems’ and enumerated 21 BW agents which it judged Iraq could employ.” [The 15th […]
2/15/2003
Building up to the invasion of Iraq, “By mid-February [2003] there was a U.S. force of 140,000 in the region, with plans for only 78,000 for the ground attack–not as many as [Lieutenant General David] McKiernan and his planners wanted, but the number they were able to squeeze out of [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld, […]
2/15/2003
According to the February 15, 2003, issue of The Los Angeles Times: “Three out of four Americans who told Los Angeles Times pollsters that they had watched, listened to or heard about [Secretary of State Colin] Powell’s presentation [to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003] said that the United States had proved its […]
2/15/2003
The Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute released a report titled ‘Reconstructing Iraq’ in February 2003. It claimed: ” ‘The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace in Iraq…is real and serious.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life […]
2/15/2003
In February 2003, “Jacques Baute, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s [IAEA’s] Iraq nuclear verification office, examined electronic copies of the Niger [yellowcake uranium] documents that had finally been forwarded to the IAEA by the United States. Astonishingly, the Bush administration had attached a note to the documents. ‘We cannot confirm these reports and […]
2/15/2003
In February 2003, Undersecretary of State “Josh Bolton assured Israeli officials that after invading Iraq, the United States would take care of Iran, Syria, and North Korea.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 290 […]