Following the release of the classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on October 1, 2002, Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) called for an unclassified version as well. “In response, on October 4 [2002], [CIA Director George] Tenet presented a twenty-five-page document called ‘Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs.’ But it was exactly the opposite of what Graham […]
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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 […]
10/4/2002
Army Major General James ‘Spider’ Marks met with experts on Iraq and WMD at the Defense Intelligence Agency on October 4, 2002. They presented him with a list of 946 potential WMD sites. ” ‘I was shocked at the lack of detail,’ he said later. These were supposed to be some of the smartest, most […]
10/4/2002
Army Major General James ‘Spider’ Marks met with experts on Iraq and WMD at the Defense Intelligence Agency on October 4, 2002. “They presented him with their highly classified WMD database on Iraq, called the Weapons of Mass Destruction Master Site List (WMDMSL). It was a list of 946 locations where intelligence indicated there were […]
10/4/2002
According to a New York Times article on October 4, 2002: “The White House…displayed a curiously tin ear when it came to tolerating its American fundamentalists’ mean-spirited views of Islam. …The Reverend Jerry Vines, a former president of the Southern Baptists, America’s largest Protestant denomination, said the Prophet Mohammed was a ‘demon-possessed pedophile.’ Televangelist Reverend […]
10/4/2002
Following the release of the classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on October 1, 2002, Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) called for an unclassified version as well. The edited, unclassified ‘White Paper‘ was released by the CIA on October 4, 2002, with some notable changes. “When the 2002 NIE report…was declassified in part in July 2003 and […]
10/3/2002
According to a Reuters article on October 3, 2002: “Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the ties between Al-Qaeda terrorists and Iraq were ‘accurate and not debatable.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 264 […]
10/3/2002
“On October 3 [2002], the [Bush] administration announced plans to deploy as many as four aircraft carrier groups to be within striking distance of Iraq in December.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 264 […]
10/3/2002
President George W. Bush on the possibility of another League of Nations: “There is a coalition of friends that are joining us to call upon accountability — accountability with Mr. Saddam Hussein, who lies, kills his own people, poisons his own citizens with weapons of mass destruction, who hates America, hates Israel, hates our friends and […]
10/2/2002
“On October 2, 2002, as the Bush administration prepared for the invasion [of Iraq], the young Illinois Senator [Barack Obama (D)] described it as a ‘dumb war’ in a speech at the Federal Plaza in Chicago. Saddam Hussein was a ‘brutal man’ but posed ‘no imminent and direct threat to the United States.’ ‘In concert […]