According to an article in The Guardian on June 4, 2003, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said, at an Asian security summit in Singapore: ” ‘The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims in a sea of oil.’ ” – […]
6/2/2003
In Iraq, “On June 2 [2003], about 1,000 ex-soldiers gathered in Baghdad outside the gates of the CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] headquarters to protest the army’s disbanding. …’There have been public statements by some former MOD [Ministry of Defense] members that they will resolve to suicide attacks if their grievances are not addressed,’ the memo […]
6/2/2003
On June 26, 2003, “The New York Times broke a front-page story disclosing that State [Department]‘s Bureau of Intelligence and Research [INR] had produced a June 2 [2003] classified memo disputing the CIA’s finding that the trailers found in Iraq were mobile bioweapons labs. …[Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz remarked, ‘If there’s a problem […]
6/1/2003
When asked if he, President George W. Bush, and President Putin see eye-to-eye on Iraq and its oil: “Vladimir can speak to the issue of the future of Iraq, at least his opinion of the future. But my opinion is, is that we must work together to improve the lives of the Iraqi citizens, that we […]
6/1/2003
According to a declassified CIA intelligence report on June 1, 2003: “In our view, the [9/11] hijackers were carefully selected with an eye to their operational and political value. For instance, the large number of Saudi nationals was most likely chosen not only because of the ease with which Saudi nationals could get US visas […]
6/1/2003
According to a declassified CIA intelligence report on June 1, 2003: “We believe that a common thread runs between the first attack on the World Trade Center in February 1993 and the attacks on 11 September 2001. [Redacted] named KSM [Khalid Shaykh Muhammad] as either the mastermind or one of the key planners of the […]
5/31/2003
“By the end of May [2003], roughly five hundred coalition troops had been lost, over four hundred of those American, and according to the Iraq Body Count around 8,000 Iraqis had died, obviously significant numbers of them combatants.” [The 31st of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Tony Blair, A Journey, Page […]
5/31/2003
“The first Iraqi insurgent attacks on U.S. forces began within days of the fall of Baghdad [on April 9, 2003], but they were infrequent. However, after President Bush proclaimed ‘Mission Accomplished’ [on May 1, 2003], the number of attacks stepped up dramatically, to six a day by the end of the month.” [The 31st of […]
5/31/2003
In a Marine corps oral history interview conducted by Colonel Nicholas Reynolds on May 31, 2003, Chief of Staff of the Coalition Forces Land Component Command Major General Robert ‘Rusty’ Blackman said: ” ‘One of the towns where they [the CIA] said we would be welcomed [by the Iraqi people] was Nasiriyah, where Marines faced […]
5/30/2003
” ‘We found the vans,’ [Secretary of State Colin] Powell told reporters on May 30 [2003], after the CIA publicly concluded that two truck trailers discovered by U.S. forces in northern Iraq were part of the fleet of mobile biological weapons factories he had described to the [U.N.] Security Council.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The […]