On October 7, 2002, “In the buildup to the 2003 invasion, President Bush invoked the defection of ‘the head of Iraq’s military industries’ [Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamel] as a crucial factor in forcing the Iraqi regime to admit to the production of a ‘massive stockpile of biological weapons that has never been accounted for, and […]
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10/7/2002
“In his speech in Cincinnati [Ohio] on October 7, 2002, President Bush had warned that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction could come into the hands of terrorists. It was one of the major concerns he highlighted before the critical congressional vote authorizing the use of force against Iraq.” – Charles Duelfer, Hide and Seek, Page […]
10/7/2002
In President Bush’s speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 2002, “The president likened the threat the country faces today from Iraq to the Cuban missile crisis, which unfolded exactly 40 years ago this month. The comparison was intended, his aides acknowledged, to give the confrontation a sense of urgency and to explain why the […]
10/7/2002
In a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘Hussein is a threat to peace and must disarm. The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gasses and atomic weapons. …Some ask how urgent this danger is to America […]
10/7/2002
On October 7, 2002, the forced confession of alleged Al Qaeda commander Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi was used during a President Bush speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, “to buttress its allegations that Iraq was on the verge of supplying Al Qaeda with…weapons of mass destruction.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 135 […]
10/7/2002
“…when [President] Bush told the nation on the evening of October 7 [2002] that Hussein was an imminent threat to the security of this country, he was telling millions of Americans the exact opposite of what is own CIA was telling him. In other words, to further his own personal agenda, Bush lied to the […]
10/7/2002
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 […]
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 […]