According to an article in The Los Angeles Times on February 16, 2003, regarding the imminent invasion of Iraq: “Of all the charges the United States has made, the most hotly debated are those linking Iraq and the al Qaeda network,’ the story said. ‘Without such a connection, the logic of invading Iraq as a […]
2/16/2003
Regarding a February 16, 2003, statement from bin Laden: “It’s clear from this that the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, which set the stage for the carving up of the Ottoman empire between the French and the British following the end of World War I, plays the same role for bin Laden that the 1919 Treaty […]
2/15/2003
“On February 15, 2003, as many as 10 million people worldwide took part in demonstrations against the looming Iraq War. It was one of the biggest global protests ever- but the invasion still went ahead.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 28 […]
2/15/2003
Regarding an Iraq/al-Qaeda connection, in a February 2003 CNN/Time poll, “76 percent…thought Hussein provided help to al-Qaeda, and another poll released around then found that 72 percent said it was very or somewhat likely that Hussein was ‘personally involved in the September 11 attacks.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
2/15/2003
In February 2003, “an important Shi’ite cleric, Majid al-Khoei, flew to Washington from London, where he had lived since fleeing Iraq in 1991. …On his return to London he told friends that he had spoken with some ‘American Jews,’ which was how he might have described neocons, who had informed him that ‘preserving the unity […]
2/15/2003
The Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute released a report titled ‘Reconstructing Iraq’ in February 2003. “The report is breathtaking in its prescience and in its detailed examination of the ‘real and serious’ ‘possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace in Iraq.’ Suspicion of U.S. motives was likely to increase […]
2/15/2003
While speaking before the Scottish Labor Party Spring Conference in Glasgow on February 15, 2003, an event surrounded by anti-war protesters, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said: ” ‘The moral case against war has a moral answer: it is the moral case for removing Saddam. It is not the reason we act. That must be […]
2/15/2003
“The first public exposition of what the USA was planning for a post-Saddam Iraq came in a series of hearings held by the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate in February 2003. Under Secretary of State Marc Grossman and Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith testified as to arrangements being considered for a post-war […]
2/15/2003
A February 2003 Army War College report explained the difficulties that existed in occupying Iraq. ” ‘The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious,’ the study warned. ‘Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.’ “ [The 15th of the […]
2/15/2003
In February 2003, Undersecretary of State “Josh Bolton assured Israeli officials that after invading Iraq, the United States would take care of Iran, Syria, and North Korea.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 290 […]