In a BBC interview on August 29, 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘We know that [Iraq] had weapons of mass destruction 12 years ago. And we know that in the four years since the inspectors were removed that they have been continuing to pursue that kind of technology, both with respect to […]
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8/29/2002
“Only a few senior White House and Pentagon officials knew that on August 29 [2002] President Bush had personally approved the final version of a war plan drawn up by General [Tommy] Franks, the commander of CENTCOM [Central Command] in Tampa, Florida, for the invasion of Iraq.” – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page […]
8/29/2002
According to a Washington Post article on August 29, 2002: “A leaked draft version of a UN report on the failure to shut down terrorists’ cash flow said that ‘Al Qaeda is by all accounts *fit and well* and poised to strike again at leisure.’ (It had already struck at least a half-dozen times around […]
8/29/2002
“A top-secret National Security Presidential Directive entitled ‘Iraq: Goals, Objectives and Strategy’ and signed by [President] Bush on August 29 [2002] spoke unambiguously about the need to ‘free Iraq in order to eliminate Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, their means of delivery and associated programs, to prevent Iraq from breaking out of containment and becoming […]
8/28/2002
On August 28, 2002, “The Washington Post found that two of the senior Qaeda leaders we hadn’t captured [Saif al-Adel and Mahfouz Ould Walid] were operating at full tilt out of Iran, where they were directly involved in planning terrorist operations, despite the Pentagon’s announcement that one of the pair (Mafouz Ould Walid) had been […]
8/26/2002
During an August 26, 2002 speech in Nashville, Tennessee, to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vice President Dick Cheney said, regarding the use of U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq: ” ‘a return of inspectors would provide no assurance whatsoever of [Hussein’s] compliance with U.N. resolutions.’ ” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, […]
8/26/2002
On CBS Morning News on August 26, 2002, “former secretary of state James Baker, who had carefully assembled the massive coalition for the Gulf War in 1991…[warned] the Bush administration that if it were to attack Saddam, it should not go it alone.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 5 […]
8/26/2002
In a speech to the 103rd Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘After his defeat in the Gulf War in 1991, Saddam agreed under UN Security Council Resolution 687 to cease all development of weapons of mass destruction. He agreed to end his nuclear […]
8/26/2002
In a speech to the 103rd Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘Prior to the Gulf War, America’s top intelligence analysts would come to my office in the Defense Department and tell me that Saddam Hussein was at least five or perhaps even ten […]
8/26/2002
In a speech to the 103rd Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars on August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick “Cheney noted the defection of Hussein Kamel, Saddam’s son-in-law, who, after leaving Iraq in 1995, pointed inspectors to a chicken farm where they found evidence of the continuing [WMD] programs. The lesson, said Cheney, is […]