Former Senator Hank “Brown [R-CO] was one of the very few elected politicians in Washington to pay attention to Afghanistan during this period [the rise of the Taliban]. ‘I just get a lump in my throat every time I think about it, but Afghanistan really is the straw that broke the camel’s back in the […]
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2/5/2003
On February 5, 2003, following Secretary of State Colin Powell’s speech to the UN Security Council, journalist Bob Woodward of The Washington Post appeared on Larry King Live: “[A]sked by Larry King what would happen if the United States went to war [with Iraq] and didn’t find any WMDs, [Woodward] answered, ‘I think the chance of […]
2/5/2003
Secretary of State Colin Powell made a presentation to the UN on February 5, 2003, accusing Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction and the evidence to prove it. “Citing human sources, Powell leveled his most serious charge. ‘We know from sources a missile brigade outside Baghdad was disbursing rocket launchers and warheads containing biological […]
2/5/2003
“On February 5, 2003, he [Secretary of State Colin Powell] gave his now-famous performance, wherein he declared that his statements about Iraqi ongoing WMD programs and stockpiles were ‘facts’–and this was a term he personally introduced to his text. …Powell did a fine job presenting a picture that turned out to be wrong. It sounded […]
2/5/2003
On February 5, 2003, “ten Eastern European nations jointly declared their support for military action [in Iraq]. ‘Our countries understand the dangers posed by tyranny and the special responsibility of democracies to defend our shared values,’ their leaders declared jointly. ‘[W]e are prepared to contribute to an international coalition to enforce [UN Resolution 1441] and […]
2/4/2003
“On February 4 [2003], [Les, the Defense Department doctor who had examined Curveball] sent an email to the deputy chief of the CIA’s Joint Task Force on Iraq: ‘I do have a concern with the validity of the information based on ‘CURVE BALL.’ He noted there had been…questions about whether ‘in fact, CURVE BALL was […]
2/4/2003
According to information from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, delivered on July 7, 2004: “On the day before Secretary of State Colin Powell’s address before the UN Security Council [February 4, 2003]…a [anonymous] military intelligence officer became alarmed that Powell was relying […]
2/3/2003
On February 3, 2003, “When Les, the Defense Department medical doctor and biological weapons specialist detailed to the CIA’s Counterproliferation Division, read a draft of [Secretary of State Colin] Powell’s [upcoming] speech [to the UN Security Council], he was upset. He had gone to Germany in 2000 to draw blood from [Iraqi informant] Curveball [whose […]
2/3/2003
“On February 3, 2003, the White House press spokesman, Ari Fleischer, responded to a question about the president’s [Bush’s] views on the exile of Saddam: ‘Well, as the president said, if Saddam Hussein were to leave Iraq and to take, as the President put it, his henchmen with him, that would be a very desirable […]
2/3/2003
“On February 3 [2003], two days before [Secretary of State Colin] Powell was to go to New York, he sketched out his briefing to the president [Bush] at an NSC [National Security Council] meeting. ‘We have sources for everything,’ Powell confidently told the President. If Powell felt duped or misled about any aspect of his […]