According to former British politician Clare Short: “A paper was commissioned which reviewed UK policy towards Iraq. It was dated 8 March 2002 and was kept secret from most of us in Cabinet. It recorded that ‘the US administration has lost faith in containment [and] is now considering regime change.’ The paper went on to […]
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3/7/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “418. At the Cabinet meeting on 7 March 2002, Mr Blair concluded: ‘… the concerns expressed in discussion were justified. It was important that the United States did not appear to be acting unilaterally. It was critically important to reinvigorate the Middle East Peace […]
3/7/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “At [UK] Cabinet on 7 March, Mr Blair and Mr Straw emphasised that no decisions had been taken and Cabinet was not being asked to take decisions. Cabinet endorsed the conclusion that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes posed a threat to peace […]
3/7/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “[British] Cabinet discusses Iraq strategy.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, March 7, 2002 […]
3/6/2002
Vice President Dick Cheney was preparing to visit Egypt, Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Israel, and Turkey. “On March 6 [2002], [Central Command leader General Tommy] Franks briefed Cheney in Washington. The general had a top secret paper that he had worked out with [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld on what was […]
3/5/2002
“On March 5, 2002, two CIA officers debriefed [envoy to Niger, Joseph] Wilson at his home. …The former ambassador summarized his discussions with the ex-Nigerian leaders and explained his view that a uranium deal of this kind [500 tons of yellowcake to be sold to Iraq] would be nearly impossible to pull off. One of […]
3/5/2002
“Freedom of Information Act requests revealed [on March 5, 2002] that, as part of its deliberations, the [Cheney Energy] task force reviewed a series of lists and maps outlining Iraq’s entire oil productive capacity. These maps include detailed descriptions of all of Iraq’s oil fields, oil pipelines, refineries, and tanker terminals. Two lists entitled ‘Foreign […]
3/5/2002
“A few days later [early March, 2002], [former ambassador Joe] Wilson returned from Niger and told CIA officials that he had found no evidence to support the story about the alleged uranium deal [with Iraq]. By now the Niger reports had been discredited more than half a dozen times–by the French in 2001, by the […]
3/4/2002
“…it wasn’t until March 4, 2002, five months after the war [in Afghanistan] commenced, that American soldiers started fighting in a normal, military way. This, from the March 5, 2002, edition of the New York Times: ‘In some of the fiercest fighting of the five-month war in Afghanistan, American ground forces took the lead in […]
3/4/2002
According to The Daily Telegraph on March 4, 2002: ” ‘Saddam must go,’ [former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher] declared in her indomitable fashion. ‘His continued survival after comprehensively losing the Gulf War has done untold damage to the West’s standing in a region where the only unforgivable sin is weakness. His flouting of the […]