A British government assessment of Iraq on September 24, 2002, claimed, “Saddam Hussein had usable chemical and biological weapons capability, which included ‘recent production of chemical and biological agents.’ He had shells, bombs, sprayers, and ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons. And the Iraqi military was ‘able to deploy [them] within 45 minutes of a […]
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9/24/2002
“The [U.K. Prime Minister Tony] Blair government’s dossier published on September 24, 2002, claimed, ‘Iraq had sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.’ The then White House spokesman Ari Fleischer suddenly asserted, ‘We agree with their findings.’ ” – Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Page 216 […]
9/24/2002
“Iraq’s WMD program was ‘active, detailed and growing,’ [U.K.] Prime Minister [Tony] Blair told Parliament on September 24 [2002]. Saddam Hussein had ‘existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes,’ Blair said, and ‘he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.’ ” […]
9/24/2002
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 […]
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 […]
9/23/2002
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 […]
9/23/2002
“[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 […]
9/22/2002
“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 […]