In a radio address on September 13, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘Saddam Hussein’s regime has proven itself a grave and gathering danger. To suggest otherwise is to hope against the evidence.’ ” – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 53 […]
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9/13/2002
“Fresh evidence has emerged that [U.K. Prime Minister] Tony Blair’s discredited Iraqi arms dossier was ‘sexed up’ on the instructions of Alastair Campbell, his communications chief, to fit with claims from the US administration that were known to be false. …In a keynote speech to the UN on 12 September 2002, Bush claimed: ‘Should Iraq […]
9/12/2002
The October 1, 2002, National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was produced by the CIA in three weeks, as opposed to the usual six to 10 months. Regarding the short-notice, request, then-CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “I reluctantly agreed and, on September 12, 2002, directed the National Intelligence Council staff to initiate a crash project to produce an […]
9/12/2002
“In his September [12] 2002 speech to the UN, President Bush underlined the challenge to the UN itself: ‘The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world […]
9/12/2002
On September 12, 2002, “more than three dozen senators were invited to the Pentagon for a briefing by [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld on weapons of mass destruction. One of those attending, Sen. Max Cleland [Democrat] of Georgia, was surprised to find Vice President [Dick] Cheney and CIA director [George] Tenet also waiting there. ‘It […]
9/12/2002
“The next day [September 12, 2002] President Bush addressed the UN General Assembly for twenty-six minutes, most of them devoted to a description of Iraq as ‘a grave and gathering danger.’ He explained his feeling of urgency: ‘With every step the Iraqi regime takes toward gaining and deploying the most terrible weapons, our own options […]
9/12/2002
In an address to the UN on September 12, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘Saddam Hussein continues to develop weapons of mass destruction. The first time we may be completely certain he has nuclear weapons is when, God forbid, he uses one. …[Iraq presents] a grave and gathering danger.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution […]
9/12/2002
“…in September [12] 2002, the Bush administration and the British government [on September 24, 2002] presented further evidence that Iraq had been reconstituting its arsenal, including satellite photos and documents detailing Saddam’s renewed effort to build long-range ballistic missiles.” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 33 […]
9/12/2002
At the U.N. headquarters in New York on September 12, 2002, “Due to speak immediately before [President] Bush, he [U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan] had guaranteed the morning headlines by releasing the text of his remarks early, including a warning that invading Iraq without U.N. support would be a grave mistake and a violation of international […]
9/12/2002
Regarding the need for another resolution before going to war against Iraq, President Bush addressed the United Nations on September 12, 2002. ” ‘We will work with the U.N. Security Council for the necessary resolutions,’ he pledged, to make one more attempt to secure Iraqi disarmament without resorting to force.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The […]