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 […]
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8/26/2002
“On August 26 [2002], in Nashville [Tennessee], he [Vice President Dick Cheney] addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars: ‘There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us.’ He added that a […]
8/26/2002
In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney “said that the information obtained from Saddam Hussein’s defected son-in-law [General Hussein Kamel] and the documents obtained from his chicken farm ‘should serve as a reminder to all that we often learned more as the result of defections […]
8/26/2002
According to CNN on August 26, 2002: “Senator Chuck Hagel [R-NE], who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, said point-blank, ‘Saddam is not in league with al-Qaeda. I have not seen any intelligence that would lead me to connect Saddam Hussein with al-Qaeda.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 110 […]
8/26/2002
In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘If the United States could have preempted 9/11, we would have, no question. Should we be able to prevent another, much more devastating attack, we will, no question.’ ” – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 71 […]
8/26/2002
On August 26, 2002, during a speech he made in Nashville, Tennessee, to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘The Iraqi regime has in fact been very busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents, and they continue to pursue the nuclear program they began so […]
8/26/2002
In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said, regarding the Arab reaction to U.S. presence in Iraq: ” ‘the streets in Basra and Baghdad are *sure to erupt in joy in the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans.* ‘ “ – Hans […]
8/26/2002
On August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said in an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Nashville, Tennessee: ” ‘Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has the weapons of mass destruction [and] there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against […]
8/26/2002
“Vice President [Dick] Cheney emphatically shut down the nascent debate [regarding the case to invade Iraq] on August 26 [2002] when he asserted, ‘There is no doubt’ that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, or WMD.” – Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, Page 49 […]
8/26/2002
Vice President Dick “Cheney made the argument in a 26 August 2002 address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. ‘Some concede that Saddam is evil, power-hungry, and a menace–but that, until he crosses the threshold of actually possessing nuclear weapons, we should rule out preemptive action. That logic seems to me to be deeply flawed. […]