“Knight-Ridder reporters Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay found a number of senior U.S. officials with access to intelligence on Iraq who thought the [Bush] administration claims [that Iraq purchased aluminum tubes from China to use for uranium enrichment] were fraudulent. …These officials, they said in the fall [October 8] of 2002, ‘charge that administration hawks […]
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10/8/2002
On October 8, 2002, Knight-Ridder journalists Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott wrote: ” ‘A growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in [Bush’s] own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration’s double-time march toward war. These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that […]
10/8/2002
“On an October [8] 2002 tape, a voice thought to be [al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman] al-Zawahiri’s said, ‘America and its deputies should know that their crimes will not go unpunished. … The settlement of this overburdened account will indeed be heavy. We will also aim to continue, by permission of Allah, the destruction of the […]
10/7/2002
” ‘Liberty for the Iraqi people is a great moral cause, and a great strategic goal,’ the president [Bush] said in his Cincinnati [Ohio] address [on October 7, 2002]. Why a strategic goal? ‘Free societies do not intimidate through cruelty and conquest,’ Bush explained, ‘and open societies do not threaten the world with mass murder.’ […]
10/7/2002
President George W. Bush, when outlining the Iraqi threat: “We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy — the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These […]
10/7/2002
“…the Brooking Institution’s Middle East analyst, Shibley Telhami, writes in the New York Times [on October 7, 2002] that ‘Democracy cannot be imposed through military forces, even if force is used successfully to oust antidemocratic dictators.’ “ – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 98 […]
10/7/2002
President George W. Bush’s remarks from the Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio: “While there are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone — because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are controlled by a murderous tyrant who […]
10/7/2002
In an October 7, 2002, letter to Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director “George Tenet declared, based on credible reports, that ‘Iraq has provided training to Al Qaeda members in the areas of poisons and gases and making conventional bombs.’ ” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The […]
10/7/2002
From the Senate floor in response to President Bush’s Cincinnati speech, “Both in terms of justifications for an invasion and in terms of the mission and the plan for the invasion, the administration’s arguments do not add up. They do not add up to a coherent basis for a new major war in the middle […]
10/7/2002
In a speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center (Ohio) on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: “Iraq was ‘a grave threat to peace’ because of its ‘history of aggression’ and ‘drive toward an arsenal of terror.’ Iraq ‘possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons’ and ‘is seeking nuclear weapons.’ Bush then went on to explain […]