Secretary of Defense “Donald Rumsfeld, taking the line of many other senior Bush officials, told CBS News [on November 15, 2002] that the projected war ‘has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.’ ” – Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11, Page 190 […]
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11/15/2002
“In November 2002 the Saudi embassy in Washington gave the finger to the State Department and federal law officials, providing a new passport for the wife of a suspected al Qaeda sympathizer and slipping her and her five children out of the U.S. after she was subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury.” [The […]
11/15/2002
“In a series of conversations and meetings in November 2002, [FBI Special Agent Jim] Clemente and several other FBI and Criminal Task Force members confronted General [Geoffrey] Miller, who by then had taken over the military command [at Guantanamo]. They warned him strongly that the cruel and degrading interrogation approaches under contemplation for [potential 20th […]
11/15/2002
“In November 2002, the United Nations Security Council had found Iraq in violation of sixteen UN resolutions and demanded that it come clean about its WMD programs.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq, Page 184 […]
11/15/2002
“[A] November 2002 paper produced by the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence (DI) reiterated the [October 1, 2002] NIE’s [National Intelligence Estimate’s] assessment that Iraq had a ‘broad range of lethal and incapacitating agents’ and that the ‘BW [biological weapons] program is more robust than it was prior to the Gulf War.’ The piece contended that […]
11/15/2002
“…in November 2002, Saddam Hussein succumbed to the pressure of a huge U.S. military buildup in Kuwait and the Bush administration’s increasingly strident rhetoric about the necessity of regime change in Baghdad. He permitted the UN inspectors to return and gave them more or less unfettered access to suspected weapons sites.” [The 15th of the […]
11/15/2002
“In November 2002, under mounting pressure, Iraq had agreed to cooperate with the UN inspection regime for the first time since December 1998, when inspectors had been withdrawn.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 62 […]
11/15/2002
“On November 15 [2002], Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assured Americans that if there were a war with Iraq, it would be a short one. ‘The idea that it’s going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990,’ he said on a […]
11/15/2002
In November 2002, the Iraqi Democratic Principles Working Group, a part of the Future of Iraq Project, released a report titled ‘The Transition to Democracy in Iraq.’ “The report recognized that a huge political and security vacuum would open up with the fall of the [Baathist] regime and that this vacuum would need to be […]
11/15/2002
In the final report on The Transition to Democracy in Iraq, issued in November 2002, “the Iraqi Democratic Principles Working Group, which sought to demilitarize society and establish civilian control over the military, warned of the ‘substantial social and economic chaos’ (including the explosive growth of organized crime) that could result from the rapid ‘de-commissioning […]