As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “Transitional [Iraqi] Administrative Law agreed.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, March 1, 2004 […]
3/1/2004
“The [Iraqi Governing Council’s] constitution was finally approved on March 1 [2004] at 4:20 A.M. Baghdad time.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 232 […]
2/28/2004
According to an ABC News poll from February 9-28, 2004, when asked “what type of government they wanted, 86 percent of Iraqis polled approved of democracy, but 81 percent also endorsed having a single strong leader, and 53 percent supported ‘a government made up mainly of religious leaders.’ When asked to choose between democracy, a […]
2/28/2004
“In addition to looking for WMD, NSA [National Security Agency] also played a large role in the Bush administration’s efforts to spy on the United Nations weapons inspectors and pressure undecided members of the UN Security Council to vote in favor of its go-to-war resolution. …Among those high on NSA’s list was Hans Blix, the […]
2/26/2004
A team of reporters from Knight-Ridder’s Washington bureau “began hearing from sources in the military, the intelligence community, and the foreign service of doubts about the arguments the [Bush] administration was making,’ bureau chief John Walcott told reporter Michael Massing in the New York Review of Books [on February 26, 2004]. …At the time, Knight-Ridder […]
2/26/2004
Director of Reconstruction in Iraq L. Paul Bremer issued Order No. 62 on February 26, 2004. It “enabled Bremer to determine which Iraqis could run for or hold public offices.” – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, Page 209 […]
2/24/2004
In testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 24, 2004, CIA Director George Tenet said: “I have consistently warned this committee of al-Qa’ida’s interest in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear [CBRN] weapons. Acquiring these remains a ‘religious obligation’ in Bin Ladin’s eyes, and al-Qa’ida and more than two dozen other terrorist groups […]
2/24/2004
In testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 24, 2004, CIA Director George Tenet said: “[P]laces that combine desperate social and economic circumstances with a failure of government to police its own territory can often provide nurturing environments for terrorist groups, and for insurgents and criminals. The failure of governments to control […]
2/24/2004
“…on February 24, 2004, [chief UN weapons inspector Hans] Blix told People’s Daily: ‘The Americans and British created facts where there were no facts at all. The Americans needed [Iraq to have] weapons of mass destruction to justify war.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 134 […]
2/24/2004
According to the People’s Daily on February 24, 2004, chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said: ” ‘The Americans and British created facts where there were no facts at all. The Americans needed [Iraq to have] WMD to justify the Iraq war.’ ” – James Bamford, A Pretext for War, Page 360 […]