“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 […]
Category: quotes
9/11/2002
In an address at Ellis Island, New York, on September 11, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘We will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder.’ ” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 42 […]
9/11/2002
“Ramzi Binalshibh, the 9/11 coconspirator, was arrested in September [11] 2002.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 436 […]
9/11/2002
“Pakistani InterService Intelligence agents…captured [9/11 conspirator Ramzi] Binalshibh and others on September 11, 2002, after a fierce 9:30 a.m. gun battle in a five-story Karachi apartment building.” – John Ashcroft, Never Again, Page 268 […]
9/11/2002
On September 11, 2002, Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen “Hadley’s office asked the CIA to clear language so that President Bush could issue a statement saying, ‘Within the past few years, Iraq has resumed efforts to purchase large quantities of a type of uranium oxide known as yellowcake. …The regime was caught trying to purchase […]
9/11/2002
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on September 11, 2002, former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan “implored the president [Bush] to provide facts instead of sermons in making his case [for war in Iraq]. ‘ *Saddam is evil* is not enough,’ she wrote. ‘A number of people are evil, and some are even our friends. *Saddam […]
9/10/2002
“Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Joseph Biden [D-DE] and the ranking Republican on the committee, Richard Lugar of Indiana, wrote the president [Bush] on September 10 [2002] cautioning against a vote on any war resolution [against Iraq] until after the [November 2002] elections. Both men made it clear that leaving Saddam with weapons of mass […]
9/9/2002
In an article for the New Statesman on June 9, 2003, former British politician Clare Short said: ” ‘…by 9 September [2002], [U.K. Prime Minister Tony] Blair and [President] Bush were agreed that there had to be military action in Iraq. My conclusion now is that Blair had promised Bush that the UK would support […]
9/9/2002
“On August 27 [2002], an NSA [National Security Agency] listening post intercepted a satellite telephone call placed from somewhere in Karachi, Pakistan, to a known al Qaeda operative. …On September 9 [2002]…Pakistani security forces bagged three Yemenis after an extended exchange of gunfire. One of them was Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who was well known to […]
9/8/2002
In an interview on Meet the Press on September 8, 2002, Vice President Dick “Cheney readily affirmed that the aluminum tubes, intercepted during shipment to Iraq, were designed to produce ‘what you have to have to build a bomb.’ ” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 413 […]