President “Bush fanned the fires tying Saddam to Osama. ‘The danger is, is that al-Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam’s madness and his hatred and his capacity to extend weapons of mass destruction around the world,’ Bush told reporters that day [September 24, 2002]. ‘I can’t distinguish between the two, because they’re both equally as […]
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9/24/2002
On September 24, 2002, “the British published a fifty-page, fourteen-point report on Iraq’s pursuit of weapons that said, ‘There is intelligence that Iraq has sought the supply of significant quantities of uranium from Africa.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 259 […]
9/24/2002
On September 24, 2002, “a crucial British intelligence dossier was made public. It stated that Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program, and that it would be able to produce nuclear weapons within one or two years if fissile material and other key components could be obtained. This ‘September Dossier,’ as it came to be […]
9/24/2002
“[I]n his preface to a report of September [24] 2002, [U.K.] Prime Minister [Tony] Blair advocated [weapons] inspection first [before invasion, in Iraq]. He wrote that ‘the inspectors must be allowed back in and to do their job properly; and that if he [Saddam] refuses, or if he makes it impossible for them to do […]
9/24/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “113. In his statement to Parliament on 24 September 2002, Mr Blair presented Iraq’s past, current and potential future capabilities as evidence of the severity of the potential threat from Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction; and that at some point in the future that […]
9/23/2002
“[I]n September [23] 2002, during the congressional debate on the Iraq War resolution, [former Vice President Al] Gore had told a San Francisco audience, ‘Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter, and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power. …We know […]
9/23/2002
Appearing on NPR’s All Things Considered on September 23, 2002, former Vice President Al Gore said: ” ‘I am deeply concerned that the course of action that we are presently embarked upon with respect to Iraq has the potential to seriously damage our ability to win the war against terrorism. …I don’t think we should […]
9/23/2002
In a speech he gave on September 23, 2002, to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, former Vice President Al Gore said: ” ‘Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.’ ” – Douglas Feith, […]
9/23/2002
“At a speech in New Jersey on September 23, 2002, [President] Bush declared that the Democrats in the Senate were ‘not interested in the security of the American people.’ He was referring not to Iraq but to the ongoing tussle over the legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security. Senate Democrats wanted to preserve the […]
9/22/2002
“In September [22] 2002 [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz told Bill Keller of the New York Times, ‘You hear people mock [the idea of a democratic Iraq] by saying that Iraq isn’t ready for Jeffersonian democracy. Well, Japan isn’t Jeffersonian democracy, either. I think the more we are committed to influencing the outcome, the […]