On January 28, 2003, “President Bush used his State of the Union address to make the case against Iraq to the American people. ‘Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent,’ he said. ‘Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us all on notice before they strike? […]
1/28/2003
In his State of the Union address on January 28, 2003, President Bush said: ” ‘Whatever action is required, whenever action is necessary, I will defend the freedom and security of the American people.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 270 […]
1/28/2003
In his State of the Union address on January 28, 2003, “Asserting that Saddam aided and protected Al-Qaeda, [President] Bush suggested that we ‘imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans–this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day […]
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The CIA was successful in efforts to remove references to Iraq attempting to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger in President Bush’s October 7, 2002, speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as for drafts of Secretary of State Colin Powell’s upcoming speech to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003. However, “on Tuesday night, January […]
1/28/2003
“On January 28, 2003, [President] Bush delivered his State of the Union address and included the following words, built on [Iraqi defector] Curveball’s claim he had been involved in creating a mobile biological weapons capability: ‘From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs. These are […]
1/28/2003
“President Bush devoted the last third of his State of the Union address [on January 28, 2003] to a broadside against Saddam…Bush then spoke 16 words that would become notorious: ‘The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.’ …But less than four months earlier, [CIA Director George] […]
1/28/2003
In his State of the Union address on January 28, 2003, President Bush “claimed that Saddam was flouting the new UN inspections. …He claimed Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs–information he said the United States knew ‘from three defectors.’ …Bush said, ‘The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium […]
1/28/2003
“[A]llegations by the President [Bush] himself in his State of the Union address [on January 28, 2003] that Saddam had ‘sought significant quantities of uranium’ and White House officials that Iraq ‘could launch a biological or chemical attack in 45 minutes,’ were known by the administration to be false.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For […]
1/28/2003
“Officially committing the nation to the longstanding tenet of neoconservative thought, [President] Bush declared [during the January 28, 2003, State of the Union Address] that ‘the United States of America will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.’ ” – Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of […]
1/28/2003
“Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, argued that the Bush Administration should take military action against Iraq, but not in the name of preempting Iraqi threats. Rather, Biden insisted, the war should be understood as an enforcement action to protect the standing of the [UN] Security Council–specifically, […]