” ‘Each passing day could be the one on which the Iraqi regime gives anthrax or VX–nerve gas–or someday a nuclear weapon to a terrorist ally,’ he [President Bush] declared at a White House ceremony on September 26 [2002].” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 100 […]
Category: quotes
9/26/2002
On the afternoon of September 26, 2002, President Bush said: “There would be ‘no discussion, no debate, no negotiation’ with the Iraqi dictator. …Saddam had tortured his own citizens, gassed the Kurds, invaded his neighbors: ‘There’s no doubt his hatred is mainly directed at us. There’s no doubt he can’t stand us.’ But one line […]
9/25/2002
Tyler Drumheller, Chief of the Directorate of Operations’ European Division, met with the Washington station chief of Germany’s BND (Federal Intelligence Service) in late September 2002. He raised questions about ‘Curveball,’ the Iraqi defector who “had become the primary basis for one of the [Bush] administration’s most significant claims: that Iraq had built a fleet […]
9/25/2002
“On September 25 [2002], [National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice appeared on PBS’s NewsHour and said the Iraqi tyrant [Saddam Hussein] was supplying ‘training to al-Qaeda in chemical weapons development.’ ” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 119 […]
9/25/2002
On September 25, 2002, “President Bush actually told the country, ‘You cannot distinguish between al-Qaeda and Saddam.’ He also said, ‘The true threat facing our country is an al-Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 108 […]
9/25/2002
” ‘You can’t distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror. They’re equally as bad. They work in concert,’ [President] Bush said on September 25, 2002.” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 144 […]
9/25/2002
“As the president [Bush] declared in September [25] 2002, ‘You can’t distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror. …I can’t distinguish between the two, because they’re both equally as bad, and equally as evil, and equally as destructive.’ ” – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 29 […]
9/25/2002
In an effort to prepare a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq in only three weeks’ time in the fall of 2002, “the CIA frantically had to verify dubious bits of intelligence, including one questionable nugget that [CIA Director George] Tenet had indiscreetly divulged to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee […]
9/25/2002
“In late September 2002, NSA [National Security Agency] Director Michael Hayden signed off on a CIA-produced National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq’s WMD program that not only turned out to be wrong in almost all respects, but also served as the principal justification for the Bush administration to lead the United States to war with […]
9/25/2002
” ‘You can’t distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror,’ said a confident [President] Bush in [September 25] 2002.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page xlix […]