“As [al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-] Zawahiri explained to a television audience in October 2002, five months before the American and British invasion of Iraq, such an invasion world ‘confirm Israel’s uncontested monopoly over weapons of mass destruction in the region, so as to ensure the submission of Arab and Islamic states to its wishes […]
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10/15/2002
“…the North Koreans admitted in October 2002 that they had a major weapons program, which presented the Bush administration with a crisis as it prepared to go to war with Iraq for the same reason.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Pages […]
10/15/2002
“In October 2002, North Korea had revealed its secret uranium enrichment program–a clear violation of the Clinton-era Agreed Framework. In response, Washington had canceled the fuel oil assistance that constituted its end of the agreement. Pyongyang then ejected U.N. monitors and announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.” [The 15th of the month used […]
10/15/2002
In October 2002, “U.S. envoy James Kelly had traveled to North Korea to confront the regime of Kim Jong Il with fresh evidence that its nuclear programs were designed to produce weapons. Virtually everyone expected the North Koreans to dismiss the United States’ findings and downplay their own nuclear ambitions. Instead, the North Koreans not […]
10/15/2002
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 […]
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 […]
10/14/2002
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 […]
10/14/2002
“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 […]
10/13/2002
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 […]