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 […]
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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 […]
10/6/2002
From the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s July 7, 2004, report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq: on October 6, 2002, “After recommending that a reference to the Iraqi pursuit of African uranium be stricken from a draft of a presidential speech set for October 7, the CIA faxes a […]
10/6/2002
“On October 6, 2002, Yemeni operatives affiliated with al Qaeda drove a boat bomb alongside the French supertanker Limburg, which was carrying almost 400,000 barrels of oil of the coast of Aden. The attack killed one sailor but failed to sink the ship or start the inferno the terrorists hoped for.” – Daniel Benjamin and […]
10/5/2002
“On October 5 [2002], [CIA director George] Tenet…[read] a draft of the President’s [Bush’s] upcoming speech slated for two days hence in Cincinnati [Ohio], and carrying the claim that Saddam Hussein’s ‘regime has been caught attempting to purchase’ uranium in Niger. The CIA immediately fired off a memo to Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley […]
10/5/2002
“Six months after the [January 28, 2003] State of the Union address, it emerged that chief White House speechwriter Michael Gerson, along with [Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen] Hadley and others, had received a CIA memo dated October 5, 2002, which objected to the [Iraq-Niger] uranium claim in a White House speech draft.” – Stefan […]
10/5/2002
CIA Director George “Tenet had advised Deputy NSC [National Security Council] Advisor Stephen Hadley personally by telephone in [early] October 2002 to remove a line referring to the uranium claim from a speech that [President] Bush was about to give in Cincinnati [on October 7, 2002].” [The 5th of the month used for date sorting […]
10/5/2002
While vetting a speech President Bush was to deliver on October 7, 2002, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the CIA took exception to a line “saying that Saddam ‘has been caught attempting to purchase up to 500 metric tons of uranium oxide from Africa–an essential ingredient in the enrichment process.’ In response, on October 5 [2002], the […]
10/4/2002
“The CIA’s new white paper, ‘Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs,’ was publicly released on October 4 [2002], just as senators and representatives were beginning the floor debate on the resolution that would authorize [President] Bush to launch a war against Iraq whenever he saw fit. …The white paper falsely stated that ‘All intelligence experts […]