On October 11, 2002, “The Senate voted 77 to 23 for the resolution [favoring military force in Iraq]. Twenty-nine of the fifty Democrats said aye.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 150-151 […]
10/11/2002
In examining the secret military documents that traced the origins of the coercive interrogation policy at Guantanamo, General Counsel of the U.S. Navy Alberto Mora said: “It began on October 11, 2002, with the request by…[Guantanamo military commander] Major General Michael Dunlavey, for permission to make interrogations more aggressive. …On December 2, 2002, there was […]
10/11/2002
“On October 11, 2002, the military officials down in Guantanamo asked [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld for permission to use the new list of eighteen harsher interrogation techniques they had compiled in their brainstorming sessions.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 200 […]
10/11/2002
“On October 11, 2002 the New York Times reported that the Pentagon already had plans to occupy and control Iraq’s oilfields. The next day The Economist described how Americans in the know had dubbed the waterway demarcating the southern borders of Iraq and Iran ‘Klondike on the Shatt al Arab,’ while Ahmed Chalabi, head of […]
10/11/2002
On October 11, 2002, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) “openly accused the Bush administration of deliberately sabotaging their efforts to create an independent commission appointed by Congress to investigate 9/11, suggesting the administration was afraid the investigation might turn up government failure. McCain said, ‘Every bureaucracy in this town is scared to […]
10/11/2002
Regarding the Iraq war vote on October 11, 2002: “In the House of Representatives, 81 Democrats voted for the war, 126 against it; no Republican voted against it. In the Senate, 29 Democrats voted for the war, 21 against it, and only one Republican voted against it.” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. […]
10/11/2002
“…the only reason given by Congress in its October 11, 2002, joint resolution authorizing war [with Iraq] was national security, nothing else. The resolution read: ‘The president is authorized to use the armed forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to defend the national security of the […]
10/10/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “318. The JIC Assesment of 10 October 2002 stated that Saddam Hussein’s ‘overriding objective’ was to ‘avoid a US attack that would threaten his regime’. The JIC judged that, in the event of US?led military action against Iraq, Saddam would: ‘… aim to use terrorism […]
10/10/2002
President George W. Bush on the House vote: “The House of Representatives has spoken clearly to the world and to the United Nations Security Council: the gathering threat of Iraq must be confronted fully and finally. Today’s vote also sends a clear message to the Iraqi regime: it must disarm and comply with all existing U.N. […]
10/10/2002
” ‘In the four years since the inspectors,’ Senator Hillary Clinton [D-NY] stated [on October 10, 2002], ‘intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program.’ …Clinton volunteered that Saddam ‘has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including […]