“Given the cover name Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group, [neoconservative scholar David] Wurmser’s unit [secretly reporting to Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith] was little more than a pro-war propaganda cell. It was designed to produce evidence to support the pretexts for attacking Iraq. …[including] finding loose ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. …But […]
10/25/2002
“…U.S. Army Commander Gen. James T. Hill and others recommended to the Joint Chiefs of Staff [General Richard Myers] the interrogation techniques adapted from Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training to be used on the prisoners at Guantanamo. SERE is the training program designed, in part, to teach military personnel how to resist severe […]
10/25/2002
“The Council on Foreign Relations released a persuasive report in the fall [October 25] of 2002 that concluded, ‘A year after 9/11, America remains dangerously unprepared to prevent and respond to a catastrophic terrorist attack on U.S. soil.’ ” – Tom Ridge with Lary Bloom, The Test of Our Times, Page 115 […]
10/25/2002
“By late October 2002, columnist Maureen Dowd of the New York Times would later reveal, Halliburton, the energy services company previously headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, had prepared a confidential 500-page document on how to handle Iraq’s oil industry after an invasion and occupation of Iraq. This was, commented Dowd, ‘a plan [Halliburton] wrote […]
10/24/2002
President George W. Bush, during a Welcome Event in Charlotte, North Carolina: “No longer can we assume oceans will protect us. As a matter of fact, quite the contrary. We must assume that the enemy is coming, and we’ve got to do everything we can to protect the homeland. That’s why I started talking about the issue […]
10/23/2002
“On October 23 [2002], the United States and Britain formally presented their revised resolution, Number 1441, to the [UN] Security Council. …the resolution…stipulated that Iraq was already in ‘material breach’ of its obligations under past resolutions, and that new infractions, even minor ones like inconsistencies in its weapons inventory, would compound the violation. The measure […]
10/23/2002
“On October 23 [2002], the CIA set up two field stations in Kurdish-controlled Northern Iraq to prepare for the coming war.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 267 […]
10/22/2002
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey on October 22, 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: “the U.S. government had sure knowledge that Saddam was ‘trying to acquire nuclear weapons’ and that only the threat of military force would capture his attention. ‘One thing you can be sure of: He isn’t going to disarm, he […]
10/21/2002
“On October 21, 2002, the New York Times reported in a front-page piece that Czech president Vaclav Havel ‘quietly told the White House he has concluded that there is no evidence to confirm earlier reports’ of the meeting [in Prague between lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer]. The Czechs continue to […]
10/20/2002
On October 20, 2002, “in an extraordinary move, Saddam ordered a blanket nationwide amnesty that emptied his network of prisons, and a cheering mob swept out to greet families who had not seen them in years. A statement issued in Saddam’s name said the gesture was in gratitude for his [October 16] reelection, but much […]