“President Bush’s time limit for Saddam ran out on March 19, 2003. The Iraqi leader made no move to leave his country.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 30 […]
3/19/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “290. Shortly before midnight on 19 March, the US informed Sir David Manning that there was to be a change to the plan and US airstrikes would be launched at 0300 GMT on 20 March.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable […]
3/19/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “288. In the Security Council debate on 19 March, the majority of members of the Security Council, including France, Russia and China, made clear that they thought the goal of disarming Iraq could be achieved by peaceful means and emphasized the primary responsibility of […]
3/19/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “287. President Bush wrote in his memoir that he convened ‘the entire National Security Council’ on the morning of 19 March where he ‘gave the order to launch Operation Iraqi Freedom’.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The […]
3/19/2003
President George W. Bush speaks about the Coalition Forces in Iraq: “I want Americans and all the world to know that coalition forces will make every effort to spare innocent civilians from harm. A campaign on the harsh terrain of a nation as large as California could be longer and more difficult than some predict. And […]
3/19/2003
President Bush “told [journalist] Bob Woodward…that after giving the order to invade [Iraq] in March [19] 2003, he walked in the White House garden, praying ‘that our troops be safe, be protected by the Almighty.’ As he went into this critical period, he told Mr. Woodward, ‘I was praying for strength to do the Lord’s […]
3/19/2003
On March 19, 2003, “Senator Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat and country orator who had been among the handful of members to argue vociferously against war, made no secret of his gloom. ‘Today, I weep for my country,’ he said, adding: ‘No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent […]
3/19/2003
“By the time the war [in Iraq] began [on March 19, 2003], the Iraqi regime boasted that it had recruited four thousand jihad fighters, although U.S. military officials put the figure closer to two thousand.” – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 171 […]
3/19/2003
“For the new war [in Iraq, which launched on March 19, 2003]… More than five hundred journalists were ’embedded’ with American and British troops to offer grunt’s-eye views of battle.” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 74 […]
3/19/2003
“By March [19] 2003, when conflict [in Iraq] began, there were no fewer than seventeen separate UN resolutions on the Iraqi refusal to cooperate with the [UN weapons] inspectors.” – Tony Blair, A Journey, Page 381 […]