The Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute released a report titled ‘Reconstructing Iraq’ in February 2003. “The report is breathtaking in its prescience and in its detailed examination of the ‘real and serious’ ‘possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace in Iraq.’ Suspicion of U.S. motives was likely to increase […]
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2/15/2003
“George Tenet, the CIA director, told Congress in February 2003: ‘Baghdad is expanding its civilian chemical industry in ways that could be diverted quickly to chemical weapons production.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Con Coughlin, Saddam: His Rise and Fall, Page 320 […]
2/15/2003
In February 2003, “an important Shi’ite cleric, Majid al-Khoei, flew to Washington from London, where he had lived since fleeing Iraq in 1991. …On his return to London he told friends that he had spoken with some ‘American Jews,’ which was how he might have described neocons, who had informed him that ‘preserving the unity […]
2/15/2003
Media mogul Rupert “Murdoch declared in February 2003, ‘The greatest thing to come of this [the war] to the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $US20 a barrel for oil. That’s bigger than any tax cut in any country.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] […]
2/15/2003
Regarding an Iraq/al-Qaeda connection, in a February 2003 CNN/Time poll, “76 percent…thought Hussein provided help to al-Qaeda, and another poll released around then found that 72 percent said it was very or somewhat likely that Hussein was ‘personally involved in the September 11 attacks.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
2/15/2003
“By the time U.S. forces began pouring into Iraq, repeated polls [including a Pew Research Center poll of February 2003] showed that a majority of the American public believed that Saddam was behind the attacks of September 11.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, […]
2/15/2003
“On February 15, 2003, as many as 10 million people worldwide took part in demonstrations against the looming Iraq War. It was one of the biggest global protests ever- but the invasion still went ahead.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 28 […]
2/15/2003
“When Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki told Congress in February 2003, just weeks before the invasion, that several hundred thousand troops would be needed in postwar Iraq, both [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld and [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz publicly attacked him, since they had both been arguing that the war could be […]
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 […]