As she explained during her appearance on Democracy Now! on September 10, 2003, “Talaat [Hamdani] herself is a teacher. In class she asked her students to define what a terrorist is. ‘The first word everybody echoed was Muslim,’ Talaat said. ‘The second brainstorm topic was to define Islam. And the first word that they came […]
9/8/2003
Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul Bremer wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post on September 8, 2003. It read: ” ‘Elections are the obvious solution to restoring sovereignty to the Iraqi people. But at the present elections are simply not possible.’ He outlined seven steps that Iraq would have to take on its path […]
9/8/2003
Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul Bremer announced a ‘7-step plan’ in a Washington Post op-ed on September 8, 2003. “Essentially, Bremer’s seven steps were: 1. Creation of a twenty-five member Iraqi Governing Council. 2. Appointment of a committee to prepare to write a constitution. 3. Turning the day-to-day operation of the Iraqi government over […]
9/8/2003
In a San Francisco Chronicle article on September 8, 2003, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter wrote: “The discovery by the U.S. forces in Iraq of two mobile ‘biological weapons laboratories’ was touted by President Bush as clear evidence that Iraq possessed illegal weapons capabilities. However, it now is clear that these so-called labs were […]
9/7/2003
President George W. Bush, in his address to the nation: “Two years ago, I told the Congress and the country that the war on terror would be a lengthy war, a different kind of war, fought on many fronts in many places. Iraq is now the central front. Enemies of freedom are making a desperate stand […]
9/7/2003
On September 7, 2003, “President Bush, in a primetime address to the nation, calls Iraq ‘the central front’ on the war on terrorism, and requests $87 billion from Congress for the first year of occupation and reconstruction in Iraq, as well as for operations in Afghanistan.” – Todd S. Purdum and The New York Times […]
9/7/2003
“In a televised address to the nation on September 7, 2003, [President] Bush declared: ‘In Iraq, we are helping…to build a decent and democratic society at the center of the Middle East. …The Middle East will become a place of progress and peace or it will be an exporter of violence and terror that takes […]
9/7/2003
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was interviewed on Fox News Sunday on September 7, 2003. When asked if there was a link between Al Qaeda and Saddam before the war, she replied: ” ‘Absolutely. And [Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi made the coming back to his old stomping ground [Iraq]. But […]
9/6/2003
On September 6, 2003, “a Washington Post poll revealed that seven in ten Americans thought Saddam Hussein had played a direct part in the [9/11] terrorist attacks.” – Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Page 201 […]
9/6/2003
“Sixty-nine percent of Americans said they thought it at least likely that Hussein was involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.” – Dana Milbank and Claudia Deane, “Hussein Link to 9/11 Lingers in Many Minds,” The Washington Post, Sep. 6, 2003 […]