“A [February 16, 2003] Los Angeles Times story quoting supporters and critics of the potential Baghdad attack concluded: ‘Of all the charges the United States has made, the most hotly debated are those linking Iraq and the Al Qaeda network. Without such a connection, the logic of invading Iraq as a response to September 11th […]
Category: quotes
2/16/2003
” ‘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 […]
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 […]
2/15/2003
A February 2003 Army War College report explained the difficulties that existed in occupying Iraq. ” ‘The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious,’ the study warned. ‘Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.’ “ [The 15th of the […]
2/15/2003
“The first public exposition of what the USA was planning for a post-Saddam Iraq came in a series of hearings held by the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate in February 2003. Under Secretary of State Marc Grossman and Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith testified as to arrangements being considered for a post-war […]
2/15/2003
In an undated interview conducted by journalist Ron Suskind, former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, Sir Richard “Dearlove had trouble nailing down the exact date of the meeting [between British secret agent Michael Shipster and Iraqi intelligence chief Tahir Jalil Habbush] and hints that there may have been several. He’s sure, though, that one […]
2/15/2003
While speaking before the Scottish Labor Party Spring Conference in Glasgow on February 15, 2003, an event surrounded by anti-war protesters, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said: ” ‘The moral case against war has a moral answer: it is the moral case for removing Saddam. It is not the reason we act. That must be […]
2/15/2003
In an undated interview conducted by journalist Ron Suskind, former head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service Sir Richard Dearlove “confirms that [British Secret Agent Michael] Shipster’s precious haul of intelligence [regarding Iraq’s lack of WMD] was passed immediately, by February [2003], to Washington. Everyone ‘at the top’ knew all about it–he and [CIA Director George] […]