In a speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: “Iraq possessed (1) a biological weapons arsenal ‘capable of killing millions’; (2) ballistic missiles with ranges ‘to strike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and other nations–in a region where more than 135,000 American civilians and service members live and work’; and […]
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10/7/2002
” ‘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,’ and that ‘Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases,’ he [President Bush] said in […]
10/7/2002
In a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘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 had already used […]
10/7/2002
According to presidential Advisor Karl Rove, former ambassador “Joe Wilson was wrong [in his July 6, 2003, New York Times op-ed ] when he said he debunked forged documents sold to Italian intelligence and passed on to the French that appeared to document Iraqi attempts to buy uranium for nuclear weapons. He [Wilson] later claimed […]
10/7/2002
In a speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center (Ohio) on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy–the United States. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back more than a decade. …And we know that […]
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 […]