“…the only reason given by Congress in its October 11, 2002, joint resolution authorizing war [with Iraq] was national security, nothing else. The resolution read: ‘The president is authorized to use the armed forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to defend the national security of the […]
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10/11/2002
Regarding the Iraq war vote on October 11, 2002: “In the House of Representatives, 81 Democrats voted for the war, 126 against it; no Republican voted against it. In the Senate, 29 Democrats voted for the war, 21 against it, and only one Republican voted against it.” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. […]
10/11/2002
On October 11, 2002, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) “openly accused the Bush administration of deliberately sabotaging their efforts to create an independent commission appointed by Congress to investigate 9/11, suggesting the administration was afraid the investigation might turn up government failure. McCain said, ‘Every bureaucracy in this town is scared to […]
10/11/2002
“On October 11, 2002 the New York Times reported that the Pentagon already had plans to occupy and control Iraq’s oilfields. The next day The Economist described how Americans in the know had dubbed the waterway demarcating the southern borders of Iraq and Iran ‘Klondike on the Shatt al Arab,’ while Ahmed Chalabi, head of […]
10/11/2002
“On October 11, 2002, the military officials down in Guantanamo asked [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld for permission to use the new list of eighteen harsher interrogation techniques they had compiled in their brainstorming sessions.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 200 […]
10/11/2002
In examining the secret military documents that traced the origins of the coercive interrogation policy at Guantanamo, General Counsel of the U.S. Navy Alberto Mora said: “It began on October 11, 2002, with the request by…[Guantanamo military commander] Major General Michael Dunlavey, for permission to make interrogations more aggressive. …On December 2, 2002, there was […]
10/11/2002
On October 11, 2002, “The Senate voted 77 to 23 for the resolution [favoring military force in Iraq]. Twenty-nine of the fifty Democrats said aye.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 150-151 […]
10/10/2002
In the Congressional Record from October 10, 2002, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) stated: ” ‘There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years. And that may happen sooner if he can obtain access to enriched uranium from foreign sources–something […]
10/10/2002
In the Congressional Record from October 10, 2002, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) stated: ” ‘Saddam has misjudged what he can get away with, and how the United States and the world will respond, many times before. At the end of the day, we cannot let the security of American citizens rest in the hands of […]
10/10/2002
Following the October 10, 2002, congressional vote supporting military involvement in Iraq, President Bush “said it ‘sends a clear message to the Iraqi regime: It must disarm and comply with all existing U.N. resolutions or it will be forced to comply.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 267 […]