John Gibson, Chief Executive of Halliburton Energy Service Group, said on May 8, 2003: ” ‘We hope Iraq will be the first domino and that Libya and Iran will follow. We don’t like being kept out of markets because it gives our competitors unfair advantage.’ ” – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, Page 147 […]
5/7/2003
In a join press conference with President Anzar of Spain, President George W. Bush had this to say: “Yes, listen, we have — we discussed the resolution today. We believe there is a mood to work together to achieve a resolution that will expedite the reconstruction of Iraq. The read from at least our diplomats at the […]
5/7/2003
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was questioned during a press briefing on Iraq on May 7, 2003: “Q: Well, we went to war, didn’t we, to find these–because we said that these weapons were a direct and imminent threat to the United States? Isn’t that true? MR. FLEISCHER: Absolutely. One of the reasons that […]
5/6/2003
A New York Times article on May 6, 2003, “by Nicholas Kristof, bore the headline ‘Missing in Action: Truth.’ Noting that no weapons had been found in Iraq, Kristof suggested the White House had ignored evidence that they were never there. Reprising the sixteen words in the State of the Union about the Niger intelligence, […]
5/6/2003
“On May 6 [2003], New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a column suggesting that in the lead-up to the war [in Iraq] the [Bush] administration had used intelligence that it had known to be false. Citing anonymous sources, Kristof wrote that the Vice President’s [Dick Cheney’s] office had asked for an investigation into a […]
5/6/2003
“On 6 May [2003], [President] Bush announced that Paul Bremer would become the top civilian administrator in Iraq [as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority].” – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 105 […]
5/6/2003
“On May 6 [2003], without mentioning former ambassador Joseph Wilson by name, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published the first account of Wilson’s trip to Africa. ‘I’m told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president’s [Dick Cheney’s] office asked for an investigation of the […]
5/5/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “651. After visiting Iraq in early May 2003, General Sir Mike Jackson, Chief of the General Staff, observed: ‘A security vacuum still exists [in Baghdad] … particularly at night. Looting, revenge killing and subversive activities are rife … Should a bloody and protracted insurgency […]
5/5/2003
President George W. Bush on how long we can expect troop to be in Iraq: “Not all our troops are coming home immediately; we’ve got a job to do in Iraq. We’ve got to make sure the quality of life improves, and we’re working on that right now — the quality of life for all Iraqis. Got […]
5/5/2003
In Iraq, “The first mass grave [as a result of Ba’ath Party atrocities] was uncovered near the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, in early May 2003. By the standards of later mass graves, this one, in the village of Imam Bakr, was small, containing nearly fifty bodies. However, the US military, which controlled the […]