Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) said on September 27, 2002: ” ‘We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.’ ” – Douglas Feith, War and Decision, Page 592 […]
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9/27/2002
In a speech at Johns Hopkins University on September 27, 2002, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) said: ” ‘There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein’s regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.’ ” – Stephen F. […]
9/27/2002
Former President Bill Clinton “rejected suggestions that efforts to disarm Iraq would be a distraction from the broader war on terror. ‘I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time. That is, I think we can turn up the heat on Iraq and maintain an intense focus on terror,’ he said in […]
9/27/2002
On September 27, 2002, “Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that there was ‘bulletproof’ evidence of an Iraq-al-Qaeda connection.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 132 […]
9/27/2002
“Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this morning [September 27, 2002] the link between al Qaeda terrorists and Iraq is ‘accurate and not debatable.’ Rumsfeld traveled here [Atlanta, Georgia] to discuss the on-going war on terrorism and the threat Iraq poses to the United States and its allies. The secretary declined to give more details on […]
9/26/2002
“At a Defense Department briefing [on September 26, 2002], Defense Secretary [Donald] Rumsfeld discusses collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda: ‘We have what we believe to be credible information that Iraq and Al Qaeda have discussed safe haven opportunities in Iraq, reciprocal non-aggression discussions. We have what we consider to be credible evidence that Al […]
9/26/2002
Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 26, 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘There is evidence of linkage between al Qaeda and Iraq… There is no linkage to 9/11 that we are aware of, but I can’t dismiss that possibility.’ He reiterated the point moments later. ‘There’s no smoking-gun linkage […]
9/26/2002
“At a Sept. 26 [2002] joint hearing of the House and Senate intelligence committees, Cofer Black, then head of the CIA Counterterrorist Center, spoke cryptically about the agency’s new forms of ‘operational flexibility’ in dealing with suspected terrorists [apprehended in Afghanistan]. ‘This is a very highly classified area, but I have to say that all […]
9/26/2002
” ‘All I want to say is that there was *before 9/11* and *after 9/11,* said Cofer Black, the head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center [in testimony before the House and Senate intelligence committees on September 26, 2002]. ‘After 9/11 the gloves came off.’ ” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Pages 305-306 […]
9/26/2002
On September 26, 2002, “In a closed meeting with eighteen lawmakers…[President] Bush had also embraced another unfounded assertion. ‘Saddam Hussein is a terrible guy who is teaming up with al-Qaeda,’ he told the lawmakers, ignoring the lack of any hard evidence of such an alliance. One of the lawmakers asked him what would happen [in […]