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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]