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.] […]
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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 […]
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 […]