“On February 14, 2003, [chief UN weapons inspector Hans] Blix told the [UN] Security Council that, of the chemical and biological samples the team had collected so far, three-fourths had been analyzed. All of the results had been consistent with Iraqi declarations.” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 63 […]
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2/14/2003
“By February 14 [2003], after having combed through more than three hundred sites in Iraq unimpeded for eleven weeks, U.N. inspectors had still found nothing, which only proved, said the neocons, that they were dupes. ‘U.N. weapons inspectors are being seriously deceived,’ declared [Defense Policy Board Adviser] Richard Perle. ‘It reminds me of the way […]
2/14/2003
“Saddam [Hussein] had presented a massive document to the UN [in December 2002], claiming that he had no WMD. [Chief UN weapons inspector] Hans Blix had corroborated this, by stating to the Security Council on 14 February, 2003, that the UN team had found no WMD in Iraq. [President] Bush rejected these findings, however, insisting […]
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 […]
2/13/2003
President George W. Bush, when visiting the Mayport Naval Station: “At any moment during the last 97 days — and during the last 12 years — Saddam Hussein could have completely and immediately disarmed himself. Instead, he’s used all this time to build and to hide weapons. He must be hoping that by stalling he’ll buy […]
2/12/2003
On February 12, 2003, CIA Director George Tenet testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Regarding al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Tenet said: ” ‘He is a senior al Qaeda associate who has met with bin Laden, who has received money from al Qaeda leadership, and on my list of top 30 […]
2/12/2003
On February 12, 2003, CIA Director George Tenet testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Regarding al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi and his cohorts, Tenet said: ” ‘…there are 116 people in jail in France, in Spain, in Italy, and in Great Britain who received training and guidance out of a […]
2/12/2003
On February 12, 2003, CIA Director George “Tenet testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iraq has ‘provided training in poisons and gases to two al-Qaeda associates,’ a point that [Secretary of State Colin] Powell had also made in his UN presentation [on February 5, 2003]. Such claims were, of course, not checkable by […]