As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “President Bush says he would put Iraqi non-compliance to the UN, paving the way for resolution 1441.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Sept. 3, 2002 […]
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9/12/2002
“President Bush managed the crisis in a way that almost guaranteed that the use of force [in Iraq] would become the only feasible option. He did this backing it with the ultimatum in his UN speech of September [12, 2002], and by ordering a massive buildup of American arms and military forces in the region, […]
9/12/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “In his speech to the General Assembly on September 12, 2002, President Bush set out his veiw of the ‘grave and gathering danger’ posed by Saddam Hussein and challenged the UN to act to address Iraq’s failure to meet the obligations imposed by the Security […]
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 […]