“…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 […]
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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 […]
2/14/2003
The Blix Report, released by chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix on February 14, 2003, “described the finding of imported material for longer-range missiles in breach of UN resolutions; the difficulties of tracking down the anthrax and VX nerve agent, without greater Iraqi cooperation; and it concluded: ‘If Iraq had provided the necessary cooperation in […]
2/14/2003
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld delivered a speech titled ‘Beyond Nation Building’ in New York on February 14, 2003. ” ‘Well-intentioned foreigners’ who practice nation-building, he said, ‘come in with international solutions to local problems’ and ‘can create a dependency’ that produces ‘unintended adverse side effects.’ A ‘long-term foreign presence in a country can be […]
2/14/2003
At a UN Security Council meeting on February 14, 2003, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said: ” ‘I hope and believe that a peaceful solution to this crisis may still be possible. But this will require a dramatic and immediate change by Saddam.’ “ – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 180 […]
2/14/2003
In a statement to the UN Security Council on February 14, 2003, chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said “that UNMOVIC [UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission] had not found any weapons of mass destruction, only a small number of empty chemical munitions. There were no smoking guns to report. Another matter–and one of equal […]
2/14/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “162. In their reports to the Security Council on February 14: -Dr Blix reported that UNMOVIC had not found any weapons of mass destruction and the items that were not accounted for might not exist, but Iraq needed to provide the evidence to answer […]
2/14/2003
“At 8:55 am on Friday, February 14 [2003], the president [Bush] went down to the Situation Room for a briefing on how they would respond if there were a coup in Iraq…The president and the NSC [National Security Council] discussed a formal ‘Coup Scenario’ paper and agreed that if there were a coup, the US […]
2/14/2003
“In a speech at FBI headquarters [on February 14, 2003], President Bush said, ‘We’re trying to protect you. We’re doing everything in our power to make sure the homeland is secure.’ ” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 438 […]