As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “175. In a speech on 26 February, President Bush stated that the safety of the American people depended on ending the direct and growing threat from Iraq.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq […]
2/26/2003
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “Before the war I had agreed it would be wise to keep the Iraqi army as a reconstruction corps–something loosely resembling FDR’s [President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s] Civilian Conservation Corps. In January 2003, [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas] Feith and his staff, working with the Joint Staff, drafted a […]
2/26/2003
“In February [26] 2003, as the U.S. military was preparing to invade Iraq, [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai took the unusual step of testifying before a Senate committee. He was asked if he had any advice for the United States. ‘Whatever you do in Iraq should not reduce your attention on Afghanistan,’ he said. By then, […]
2/26/2003
President Bush said, in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute on February 26, 2003: ” ‘Success in Iraq could also begin a new stage for Middle Eastern peace, and set in motion progress towards a truly democratic Palestinian state.’ ” – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page 211 […]
2/26/2003
“As the German ambassador to the United States [Wolfgang Ischinger], not a supporter of war, later put it [on NBC’s Today on February 26, 2003], ‘I think all of our governments believe that Iraq has produced weapons of mass destruction and that we have to assume that they still have…weapons of mass destruction.’ “ – […]
2/26/2003
CBS anchor Dan Rather interviewed Saddam Hussein on February 26, 2003. “Asked by the CBS anchor if he was destroying the missiles prohibited by the UN, Saddam answered, ‘Which missiles? What do you mean? We have no missiles outside the specifications of the United Nations, and the inspection teams are here and they’re looking. I […]
2/26/2003
On February 26, 2003, President Bush “promised an audience at AEI [American Enterprise Institute], the neo-conservative stronghold, that ‘we will lead in carrying out the urgent and dangerous work of destroying chemical and biological weapons [in Iraq].’ ” – Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Page 209 […]
2/26/2003
In a speech to the American Enterprise Institute on February 26, 2003, President Bush said: ” ‘Saddam is building and hiding weapons that could enable him to dominate the Middle East and intimidate the civilised world.’ ” – Robin Cook, The Point of Departure, Page 335 […]
2/26/2003
On February 26, 2003, Secretary of State Donald “Rumsfeld told reporters that it was ludicrous to think that it would take more forces to secure the peace than win the war [in Iraq].” – Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II, Page 118 […]
2/26/2003
In a speech to the American Enterprise Institute on February 26, 2003, President Bush said: ” ‘The world has a clear interest in the spread of democratic values’ and that a ‘new regime in Iraq would serve a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the region.’ ” – Michael Isikoff and […]