In a press interview on May 30, 2003, Lt. Gen. James Conway, “Commander of the US Marines in Iraq, was blunt about both the scale of the effort [to find WMD] and the paucity of the result: ‘It’s not for lack of trying. We’ve been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border […]
5/29/2003
“In Britain, [Prime Minister] Tony Blair was facing harsh questions about his government’s role in gathering and publishing what now looked like suspect intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs. In late May [29, 2003] the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that ‘one of the senior officials in charge of drawing up’ the September 2002 government […]
5/29/2003
Then-U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote: “By the time of my visit to Basra [Iraq] at the end of May [29, 2003], [Secretary of Defense] Donald Rumsfeld had somewhat unhelpfully suggested that we may never find WMD, a prediction that turned out to be true but needed to be handled with some care. It was, […]
5/29/2003
In an interview with TVP (Polish television) on May 29, 2003, President George W. Bush said: “We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They’re […]
5/29/2003
“Information [was] released that day [May 29, 2003] by Representative Henry Waxman, a liberal Democrat [from California], showing that Halliburton–of which [Vice President Dick] Cheney had been the chief executive officer–had received more than half a billion dollars in military contracts relating to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in an arrangement that did not […]
5/29/2003
On May 29, 2003, there was a “front page article in The Washington Post by Walter Pincus and Karen DeYoung that cited [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s prewar assertions about Iraq’s WMDs as a primary example of [Bush] administration statements that now looked wrong. (In an interview for the Post article, [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] […]
5/29/2003
” ‘We found the weapons of mass destruction,’ President Bush declared in an interview with a Polish television reporter on May 29 [2003]. ‘We found biological laboratories. You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. […]
5/29/2003
” ‘We have found the weapons of mass destruction,’ [President] Bush proclaimed the next day [May 29, 2003] in an interview with a Polish television journalist. …’You remember when [Secretary of State] Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons…and we’ve […]
5/28/2003
On May 28, 2003, “in a curious kind of defense of the U.S. occupying force having not yet found any illegal weapons in Iraq, Deputy Secretary of Defense [Paul] Wolfowitz implied poor performance on the part of the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency]. He said, ‘I mean, it took time in 1991, if you recall. […]
5/28/2003
A public announcement by the CIA on May 28, 2003, claimed that “Two mysterious trailers found in Iraq in April and May…were mobile units designed to produce deadly germs, and were ‘the strongest evidence to date that Iraq was hiding a biological warfare program.’ For weeks, there had been intense speculation about the purpose and […]