“The drive for war [in Iraq] was not helped when [President] Bush saw on September 16 [2002] that Lawrence Lindsey, his top economics adviser, had told the Wall Street Journal that it could cost $100 billion to $200 billion. In fact, Lindsey was just thinking out loud, not offering a formal projection. He was actually […]
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9/16/2002
President George W. Bush stated: “And if Iraq regimes continues to defy us, and the world, we will move deliberately, yet decisively, to hold Iraq to account. We owe this to our children. We must anticipate. Somebody said, well, you know, they don’t have a nuclear weapon. I said, well, the most dangerous thing — and we […]
9/16/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “122. Dr Naji Sabri, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, wrote to Mr Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, on 16 September to inform him that, following the series of talks between Iraq and the UN in New York and Vienna between March and July 2002 and the […]
9/16/2002
On September 16, 2002, researchers from the ‘Iraqi intelligence cell’ that had been created by Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, said: “Saddam Hussein’s regime had a far more extensive relationship with Osama bin Ladan and al-Qaeda than the CIA acknowledged. …The Feith team reported that Saddam’s intelligence service had played a ‘facilitation’ role in the […]
9/16/2002
The conclusion of Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith’s ‘Iraqi intelligence cell’ during a September 16, 2002, briefing for vice presidential Chief of Staff Scooter Libby and Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley at the White House was presented in a slide show. “The Feith analysts were essentially claiming that because al-Qaeda and Iraq had joined […]
9/15/2002
Iraqi National Congress head Ahmed Chalabi said in September 2002, before the US invasion: “American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Michael T. Klare, “The Failed Mission to Capture Iraqi Oil,” Asia Times, Sep. 22, 2005 […]
9/15/2002
“In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s […]
9/15/2002
After four members of Congress were briefed about the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques in September 2002, according to one U.S. official who was present: ” ‘The attitude was, *We don’t care what you do to those guys as long as you get the information you need to protect the American people.* ‘ ” [The 15th […]
9/15/2002
In September 2002, “the Defense Intelligence Agency issued a classified report entitled ‘Iraq’s Reemerging Nuclear Weapons Program,’ which concluded that Baghdad was on its way to building the bomb.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – James Risen, State of War, Page 92 […]
9/15/2002
“In September 2002, the president’s [Bush’s] chief economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsay, estimated that the costs of war with Iraq could be as high as $100 billion to $200 billion. The administration was quick to dismiss Lindsay’s estimates. Mitch Daniels, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, discounted Lindsay’s statement as ‘very likely very high.’ […]