On August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney spoke before a national convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars. ” ‘The Iraqi regime has in fact been very busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents,’ Cheney said. As for the nightmarish prospect of a nuclear-armed Saddam, the vice president declared, ‘We […]
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8/26/2002
Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 26, 2002. In discussing Saddam’s WMD threat: ” ‘The risks of inaction are far greater than the risk of action,’ Cheney emphasized in his speech. Cheney declared that Iraq had ‘been enhancing its capabilities in the field […]
8/26/2002
On August 26, 2002, “major newspapers carried front-page stories that White House lawyers had ruled international law allowed the U.S. administration to topple Saddam, based on his violations of the accords ending Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 Gulf War.” – Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty, Page 279 […]
8/26/2002
In his speech to the 103rd National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) on August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said, once Iraq acquired weapons of mass destruction: ” ‘Saddam Hussein could then be expected to seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world’s […]
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, […]
8/25/2002
“As the move toward war [in Iraq] began gaining momentum in late August 2002, [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas] Feith created another new organization, the Office of Special Plans [OSP]. Its purpose was to conduct advance war planning for Iraq, and one of its most important responsibilities was ‘media strategy.’ …Above all, the office […]
8/25/2002
” ‘Regime change in Iraq is the policy of the current [Bush] administration, just as it was the policy of its predecessor,’ he [former Chief of Staff James A. Baker III] wrote in the New York Times [on August 25, 2002]. ‘That being the case, the issue for policymakers to resolve is not whether to […]
8/25/2002
On August 25, 2002, former Secretary of State James Baker published an article in The New York Times. “…Baker did not directly oppose war with Iraq, but he urged the president [Bush] to seek a new UN Security Council resolution requiring Iraq to submit to no-warning inspections and ‘authorizing all necessary means to enforce it,’ […]
8/21/2002
“On August 21 [2002], [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld visited [President] Bush at his Crawford [Texas] ranch to discuss a range of military issues. In a brief appearance before the press afterward, the president complained that the media seemed to be focusing on the possibility of military action in Iraq. There was, he said, too […]
8/21/2002
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul “Wolfowitz, the architect of the warlord policy [in Afghanistan], was in a state of denial about the U.S. role in supporting the warlords. ‘I don’t think in most parts of the country that the power of the warlords is a function of any support they get from us,’ he said […]