“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
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 […]
10/7/2002
In a speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center (Ohio) on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. …Saddam would be […]
10/7/2002
“Culminating the campaign that had begun with [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s VFW [Veterans of Foreign Wars] speech six weeks earlier [August 26, 2002], [President] Bush traveled to Cincinnati [Ohio] in early October [7, 2002] to make his case to the American people: The decades-old policy of containment in Iraq hadn’t worked, even when executed aggressively, […]
10/7/2002
President Bush made a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 2002. ” ‘Many Americans have raised legitimate questions about the nature of the [Iraqi] threat, about the urgency of action–why be concerned now–about the link between Iraq developing weapons of terror and the wider war on terrorism,’ Bush said. The danger was real, he […]
10/7/2002
According to a New York Times article on July 13, 2003: “a claim that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy 550 tons of uranium ore from Niger had been dropped from a speech given by President Bush in Cincinnati [Ohio] back on October 7, 2002. CIA director George Tenet, the story said, had personally warned […]