On January 30, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff Larry Wilkerson said, regarding the Bush Administration’s WMD case: ” ‘It was clear the thing was put together by cherry-picking everything from The New York Times to the DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency],’ he said. When Wilkerson and the team began to examine the […]
1/30/2003
President Bush met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on January 30, 2003. Bush told him that “Iraq would be disarmed and Saddam would not be allowed to stay in power. ‘We have put together a lethal military and we will kick his ass. We will take every step to avoid civilians.’ ” – Bob […]
1/29/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “314. On 29 January 2003, the JIC assessed that, despite the presence of terrorists in Iraq ‘with links to Al Qaida’, there was ‘no intelligence of current co?operation between Iraq and Al Qaida’.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown […]
1/29/2003
A January 29, 2003, CIA report on potential links between Iraq and al-Qaeda “concluded there had been contacts over the years and moments when Iraq seemed to provide safe haven for terrorists. But it did not connect Iraq with September 11 and found no evidence of ‘command linkages.’ ” – Peter Baker, Days of Fire, […]
1/29/2003
“In an article in The Washington Post on January 29, 2003, David Kay, who later in the year was appointed by the CIA to head the U.S. Iraq Survey Group, wrote: ‘When it comes to U.N. inspections in Iraq, looking for a smoking gun is a fool’s mission. That was true 11 years ago when […]
1/29/2003
“On the 29th of January, 2003, the European Parliament passed a nonbinding resolution, which: ‘Expresses its opposition to any unilateral military action and believes that a preemptive strike [in Iraq] would not be in accordance with international law and the UN Charter and would lead to a deeper crisis involving other countries in the region.’ […]
1/29/2003
In a follow-up report that it provided to Congress on January 29, 2003, the CIA stated: ” ‘The Intelligence Community has no credible information that Baghdad [Iraq] had foreknowledge of the 11 September attacks or any other al-Qa’ida strike, but continues to pursue all leads.’ ” – Philip Taylor, The War in Iraq, Page 89 […]
1/29/2003
“On January 29 [2003], the president [Bush] devoted much of his State of the Union address to security issues and proclaimed Iraq, Iran, and North Korea to be part of an ‘axis of evil.’ Bush declared that WMD in the hands of rogue states was an unacceptable threat and warned that he would not wait […]
1/28/2003
“In January [28] 2003, President Bush said in his State of the Union speech that the British government had learned that Iraq ‘had recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.’ Two months later, U.S. and allied troops invaded Iraq. Paul Pillar, who retired last year after 30 years at the CIA, said that the […]
1/28/2003
“In his January [28] 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush said, ‘Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al-Qaeda.’ ” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 132 […]