Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans “Blix warned that the deficiencies [in Iraq’s compliance with U.N. weapons inspections] were so grave as to suggest that Saddam did not grasp the gravity of the situation. Iraq, Blix told the Security Council on January 27 [2003], did not seem to have accepted ‘the disarmament which was demanded of […]
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1/27/2003
President “Bush decided to make one more effort to convince the world of Iraq’s perfidy, and on January 27 [2003] he asked [Secretary of State Colin] Powell to present evidence to the United Nations. …’We’ve really got to make the case and I want you to make it,’ Bush said. ‘You have the credibility to […]
1/26/2003
Speaking before the World Economic Forum on January 26, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell said that though Iraq was given a final opportunity to disarm, “Iraq had ‘failed the test.’ …Powell asked, ‘Where are the mobile vans that are nothing more than biological weapons laboratories on wheels? Why is Iraq still trying to procure […]
1/26/2003
Following Secretary of State Colin Powell’s January 26, 2003, speech at the World Economic Forum about the need for regime change in Iraq, former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said, of Powell: ” ‘He’s a decent guy, but I don’t think he changed any minds. …We don’t need much evidence, just enough to know that […]
1/26/2003
“In his Davos [Switzerland] speech [at the World Economic Forum on January 26, 2003] he [Secretary of State Colin Powell] had cited allegations that his own State Department analysts questioned, including the attempts [by Iraq] to import uranium and nuclear-related aluminum tubes as well as the ties between Saddam and al-Qaeda.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: […]
1/26/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “154. Mr Blair used an interview on Breakfast with Frost on 26 January to set out the position that the inspections should be given sufficient time to determine whether or not Saddam Hussein was co-operating fully. If he was not, that would be sufficient […]
1/25/2003
“By late January [2003] the Bush and Blair administrations had determined that Iraq had failed to fully disarm and as a result they were putting tremendous pressure on the uncommitted members of the [UN] Security Council to vote in favor of its tough go-to-war resolution. …By listening in as the delegates communicated back to their […]
1/25/2003
“On January 25 [2003], in the White House Situation Room, [vice presidential Chief of Staff Scooter] Libby claimed that intercepts and human intelligence reports indicated that Iraq had been concealing, moving, and burying items…they had to be WMDs. He reported that Saddam’s ties to al-Qaeda were extensive.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page […]
1/25/2003
“By late January [2003] the Bush and Blair administrations had determined that Iraq failed to fully disarm and as a result they were putting tremendous pressure on the uncommitted members of the [UN] Security Council to vote in favor of its tough go-to-war resolution. On the other side, arguing against the war, were France, Germany, […]
1/25/2003
In an interview for the PBS program Frontline: The War Behind Closed Doors, on January 25, 2003, Defense Policy Board Adviser Richard “Perle predicted on behalf of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board that should the United States fail to carry through with its Iraq policy, ‘it will open the floodgates to terror against us.’ ” […]