In a lecture on February 20, 2003, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) said, regarding the impending invasion of Iraq: ” ‘…a post-Saddam transition in Iraq must focus on security, economic stability and creating the conditions for democratic change. We should put aside the mistaken delusion that democracy is just around the corner.’ ” – Bob Woodward, […]
2/19/2003
President “Bush referred scornfully today [February 19, 2003] to giving Mr. Hussein ‘another, ‘nother, ‘nother last chance’ to comply with prior United Nations resolutions demanding that Iraq disarm.” – Richard W. Stevenson, “Antiwar Protests Fail to Sway Bush on Plans for Iraq,” The New York Times, Feb. 19, 2003 […]
2/18/2003
” ‘Iraq has tremendous resources…’ said White House press secretary Ari Fleischer [in a press briefing on February 18, 2003]. ‘So there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page […]
2/17/2003
“A Newsweek poll [appearing in the February 17, 2003, issue] taken just after the speech [by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003] found that half of all Americans surveyed were now ready to go to war, compared to only a third the previous month.” – Karen DeYoung, […]
2/17/2003
On February 17, 2003, Jacques Baute, Chief of Iraqi nuclear matters at the International Atomic Energy Agency, “concluded that the papers [alleging the sale of uranium from Niger to Iraq] were completely bogus.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 203 […]
2/17/2003
In an interview conducted by Nicholas Lehman that was printed in The New Yorker on February 17, 2003, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, articulating the rationale for an Iraq invasion, said: ” ‘[T]here have always been three fundamental concerns. One is weapons of mass destruction, the second is support for terrorism, the third is […]
2/16/2003
” ‘There is a problem–the probable possession of weapons of mass destruction by an uncontrollable country, Iraq,’ said French President Jacques Chirac [in an interview on February 16, 2003]. He added, ‘The international community is right…in having decided Iraq should be disarmed.’ ” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 434 […]
2/16/2003
“A [February 16, 2003] Los Angeles Times story quoting supporters and critics of the potential Baghdad attack concluded: ‘Of all the charges the United States has made, the most hotly debated are those linking Iraq and the Al Qaeda network. Without such a connection, the logic of invading Iraq as a response to September 11th […]
2/16/2003
According to an article in The Los Angeles Times on February 16, 2003: “In answer to reporters’ questions linking the al Qaeda threat to the impending Iraq invasion, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, ‘Why now? The answer is that every week that goes by, [Saddam’s] weapons of mass destruction programs become more mature [and] he […]
2/16/2003
According to an article in The Los Angeles Times on February 16, 2003: “Intelligence officials quoted at the time said they had identified six hundred to one thousand potential al Qaeda terrorists in cells around the U.S.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 438 […]