According to a CIA senior executive memorandum on February 21, 2003: ” ‘Close al Qaeda associate [Abu Musab] al Zarqawi has had an operational alliance with Iraqi officials. As of October 2002, al Zarqawi maintained contacts with the IIS [Iraqi Intelligence Service] to procure weapons and explosives, including surface-to-air missiles from an IIS officer in […]
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10/15/2002
In the Chilcot inquiry, the British public inquiry into their involvement in the war in Iraq, Attorney General Lord “Goldsmith reveals that as early as October 2002 he learned that [Prime Minister Tony] Blair ‘had indicated to President Bush that he would join the US in acting without a second [UN] resolution.’ Goldsmith told the […]
10/15/2002
“…with lawmakers persuaded about what would go wrong if America did not attack Iraq, [President] Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney were confronted with a roster of what could go wrong if it did. [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld had scrawled out by hand a list of all the possible setbacks… Marked ‘SECRET’ and dated […]
10/15/2002
In The Iraq War Reader, Sarah Graham-Brown and Chris Toensing wrote: “By October [2002], U.S. and British planes had bombed Iraqi targets 46 times, and ‘clashes’ in the no-fly zones picked up again after the November 8 U.N. resolution.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Eds. Micah L. Sifry […]
10/15/2002
“A study conducted by the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform requested by Congressman Henry Waxman [D-CA], found that by October 2002, President Bush, Vice President [Dick] Cheney, Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld, Secretary [of State Colin] Powell, and National Security Advisor [Condoleezza] Rice had made nearly a hundred misleading or inflated statements about […]
10/15/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “811. … -The MOD [Ministry of Defense] advised in October that the UK was at risk of being excluded from US plans unless it offered ground forces, ‘Package 3’, on the same basis as air and maritime forces. That could also significantly reduce the […]
10/14/2002
“The vision laid out in the [President] Bush document [the National Security Strategy of the United States, written on September 17, 2002, which said we must prevent other nations from ‘surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States’] is a vision of what used to be called, when we believed it to be the […]
10/14/2002
A member of the press inquired of President George W. Bush if there would be a change in the policy on Iraq since al Qaeda had reconstituted itself: “Yes. Well, first, I — we’re making great progress in the war against terror. But as I told our citizens, and have been repeatedly telling our citizens, this […]
10/14/2002
Speaking at the Thaddeus McCotter for Congress Dinner, President George W. Bush stated: “Military option is my last choice. It’s not my — it’s the last thing I want to do, is commit our military. My first choice is for Saddam Hussein to do what he said he would do, and after 11 years, disarm. I […]
10/13/2002
An article in The San Jose Mercury News on October 13, 2002, written by former U.S. ambassador Joe Wilson “argued that [President] Bush was being confrontational, wrapping his obvious smash-Saddam desires within a thin argument on WMDs, and that the United Nations was not taking a hard enough line on a dictator who had flouted […]