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 […]
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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
On September 8, 2002, “the front page headline [of The New York Times] declared, ‘U.S. SAYS HUSSEIN INTENSIFIES QUEST FOR A-BOMB PARTS.’ …’More than a decade after Saddam Hussein agreed to give up weapons of mass destruction, Iraq stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to […]