On CNN’s Late Edition on September 8, 2002, National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice declared Saddam a ‘danger to the United States’ that ‘is gathering momentum.’ She said there was ‘increasing evidence that he continues his march toward weapons of mass destruction.’ ” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 41 […]
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9/8/2002
According to CNN on September 8, 2002: “…numerous [Bush] administration spokespersons fanned out to give statements to the national media that a ‘mushroom cloud’ might threaten American cities unless we invaded Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from giving a nuclear weapon to the same terrorist group that had already attacked us with deadly consequences.” – […]
9/8/2002
A New York Times article on September 8, 2002, “quote[s] Ahmed al-Shemri (a pseudonym), who contends that he worked in Iraq’s chemical weapons program before defecting in 2000. ‘ *All of Iraq is one large storage facility,* said Mr. Shemri, who claimed to have worked for many years at the Muthanna State Enterprise, once Iraq’s […]
9/8/2002
” ‘The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he [Saddam Hussein] can acquire nuclear weapons,’ [National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice said on CNN on September 8 [2002], echoing that morning’s New York Times story. ‘But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.’ ” – […]
9/8/2002
“…the words of national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on September 8 [2002] had made headlines: ‘The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly [Saddam] can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.’ ” – Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush […]
9/8/2002
“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 […]
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 […]
9/7/2002
Former Secretary of State George Shultz published an essay in the September 7, 2002, Washington Post. “Shultz laid out the most influential arguments for war [in Iraq], which have since been proven to have the least basis in fact. According to Shultz, the most compelling argument for war was the catastrophic and immediate threat posed […]
9/7/2002
“Appearing [on September 7, 2002] at Camp David with the British prime minister, Tony Blair, he [President Bush] told the press that ‘when the inspectors first went into Iraq’ and were denied access, the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] of the UN had concluded ‘that they were six months away’ from producing a [nuclear] weapon. […]
9/7/2002
“Early in September [7] 2002, President Bush declared that satellite photographs of new construction at Al Furat, Iraq’s former site for uranium enrichment by centrifuge, showed that the country’s nuclear bomb program had been resurrected. ‘I don’t know what more evidence we need,’ he said. But he would, in fact, need more. The Iraqis immediately […]