Referring to Iraq, White House spokesman “Ari Fleischer announced again on January 9, 2003: ‘We know for a fact that there are weapons there.’ ” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 139 […]
1/9/2003
“On January 9, 2003, [General Counsel of the U.S. Navy Alberto] Mora had a second meeting with [legal counsel to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] Jim Haynes. …Haynes defended the tough new [interrogation] tactics. …Mora also warned Haynes that the legal opinions that the [Bush] administration was counting on to protect itself might not withstand […]
1/8/2003
After President Bush met with congressional leaders from both parties on January 8, 2003, and told them he had not yet made a decision about going to war with Iraq, he “met in the residence with Republican leaders only, and was more candid. ‘There’s a good chance I’ll have to address the nation and commit […]
1/6/2003
General Counsel of the U.S. Navy Alberto “Mora attempted to take on the most powerful figures in the Bush Administration. …on January 6, 2003, Mora was upset to learn…that the abuse at Guantanamo…was getting worse. [Alleged 20th hijacker Mohammed al-] Qahtani had been forcibly shaved, force-fed intravenously, and ordered to bark like a dog. He’d […]
1/6/2003
“The president [Bush], back in Washington, met with his full cabinet at 3:30 pm on January 6 [2003]. ‘If we don’t have a case to make [against Saddam for not disclosing weapons of mass destruction], I won’t send in the troops [to Iraq].’ ” – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 256 […]
1/5/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “804. … -By early January 2003, Mr Blair had concluded that Iraq had had “no change of heart” and military action to remove Saddam Hussein’s regime was likely to be required to disarm Iraq.” [The 5th of the month for date sorting purpose only] […]
1/5/2003
“In early January [2003], Douglas Feith, an undersecretary of defense for policy…contacted Jay Garner, a retired three-star general who had overseen the relief effort in Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Feith asked if Garner would run a new civilian postwar planning office and eventually take it to Iraq, and Garner […]
1/5/2003
“After the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing the resumption of weapons inspections in Iraq, [President] Bush became increasingly impatient with their effectiveness and the role of chief weapons inspector Hans Blix. Shortly after New Year’s 2003, he told Rice at his Texas ranch: ‘We’re not winning. Time is not on our side here. […]
12/31/2002
President George W. Bush, in response to a question posed by a member of the press: “Well, an attack from Saddam Hussein or a surrogate of Saddam Hussein would cripple our economy. My biggest job and most important job is to protect the security of the American people, and I am going to do that. And […]
12/31/2002
“Asked at a New Year’s Eve [2002] press conference from Crawford, Texas, about ‘a possible war with Iraq looming,’ Bush replied, ‘You said we’re headed to war in Iraq–I don’t know why you say that. I hope we’re not headed to war in Iraq. I’m the person who gets to decide, not you. I hope […]