“With no reason to think they were being lied to, the public was left to believe that Saddam Hussein had restarted his nuclear weapons program and was just six months away from having a working atomic bomb. ‘Senior [Bush administration] officials made statements which I can only describe as dishonest,’ said senior State Department intelligence official […]
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9/8/2002
“ ‘The International Atomic Energy Agency has no evidence that Iraq is developing nuclear weapons at a former site previously destroyed by UN inspectors, despite claims made over the weekend by [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, western diplomatic sources told The Guardian yesterday [September 8, 2002].’ ” – Amy Goodman with David Goodman, The Exception […]
9/8/2002
When Vice President Dick Cheney was asked, on NBC Meet the Press on 9/8/02, what specifically Saddam had obtained to make Cheney believe Saddam could or did to enhance his Nuclear Development Program, he responded, “Well, in the nuclear weapons arena, you’ve got sort of three key elements that you need to acquire. You need […]
9/8/2002
According to a New York Times article on September 8, 2002: ” ‘More than a decade after Saddam Hussein agreed to give up weapons of mass destruction, Iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb, Bush administration officials said today.’ […]
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 […]
9/8/2002
Appearing on Meet the Press on September 8, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘I’m not here today to make a specific allegation that Iraq was somehow responsible for 9/11. I can’t say that. On the other hand, since we did that interview [discussing possible Iraqi involvement in 9/11 on December 9, 2001], new […]
9/7/2002
“On September 7 [2002], a New York Times story quoted [White House Chief of Staff Andrew] Card on the timing of the White House’s push on Iraq: ‘From a marketing point of view you don’t introduce new products in August.’ Apparently, the White House decided the first weekend after Labor Day–when the nation was about […]
9/7/2002
On September 7, 2002, British Prime Minister Tony Blair met with President Bush “for a three hour talk on Iraq and dinner…Blair and Bush took questions from reporters. They said they were committed to ending Saddam’s threat once and for all…Bush asserted unequivocally, ‘Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction.’…’I’m with you,’ the prime minister […]
9/7/2002
Then-CIA Director George Tenet described a Camp David meeting that discussed the possibility of war in Iraq: “The meeting on Saturday morning, September 7, [2002] sparked considerable debate about the wisdom of trying to revive a UN inspection regime. …To me, the president [Bush] still appeared less inclined to go to war than many of […]
9/7/2002
“The White House propaganda blitz was launched on September 7, 2002, at a Camp David press conference. British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood side by side with his co-conspirator, President George W. Bush. Together, they declared that evidence from a report published by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showed that Iraq was ‘six […]