On July 20, 2003, Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul “Bremer appeared on the television program Meet the Press, and host Tim Russert tried to pin him down on the troop-level issue [in Iraq]. ‘Have you asked Secretary of Defense [Donald] Rumsfeld for more American troops?’ Russert inquired. ‘No, I have not,’ Bremer replied. ‘I […]
7/20/2003
U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said, while speaking to the House of Commons on July 20, 2003: ” ‘I agree that it would have been better to let the [weapons] inspectors [in Iraq] have more time, provided that we had a UN resolution for them to operate under which laid down a clear ultimatum to […]
7/19/2003
U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair addressed a joint session of Congress on July 19, 2003. “He knew that critics in America were asking why we had to take the lead in liberating Iraq and confronting terror, and he gave the answer: ‘Because destiny put you in this place in history, this moment in time, and […]
7/18/2003
On July 18, 2003, “David Kelly, a scientist at the British Ministry of Defence, is found dead in an apparent suicide, two days after having undergone tough questioning during a parliamentary inquiry on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.” – Todd S. Purdum and The New York Times Staff, A Time of Our Choosing, Page 297 […]
7/18/2003
In an address to Congress on July 18, 2003, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke about the war against terror: ” ‘…our job, my nation that watched you grow, that you fought alongside and now fights alongside you, that takes enormous pride in our alliance and great affection in our common bond, our job is […]
7/17/2003
A press release on July 17, 2003, by the public interest group Judicial Watch, which investigates and prosecutes governmental corruption, said that in proceedings against the Cheney Energy Task Force, they found “a highly detailed map of Iraq–showing none of the cities, none of the places where people lived, but showing in great detail the location […]
7/17/2003
“On July 17 [2003], Time posted the article…and a strong headline: ‘A War on Wilson?’ The subtitle asked, ‘Has the Bush Administration declared a war on a former ambassador [Joe Wilson] who conducted a fact-finding mission to probe possible Iraqi interest in African uranium?’ Its answer: ‘Perhaps.’ ” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, […]
7/17/2003
On July 17, 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair “addressed a joint session of Congress and left open the possibility that no weapons of mass destruction would be located [in Iraq]. ‘Let us say one thing: if we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that is at least responsible for inhuman carnage and […]
7/17/2003
“According to a report in London’s Guardian newspaper [on July 17, 2003], the OSP [Office of Special Plans] also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence unit within [Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon’s office in Israel. It was designed to go around the country’s own intelligence organization, Mossad. The purpose of the unit, said […]
7/16/2003
“On July 16 [2003], [David] Corn posted a piece on The Nation’s Web site. Called ‘A White House Smear,’ it began, ‘Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security–and break the law–in order to strike at a Bush administration critic […]