On October 8, 2002, Knight-Ridder journalists Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott wrote: ” ‘A growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in [Bush’s] own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration’s double-time march toward war. These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that […]
10/8/2002
“Knight-Ridder reporters Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay found a number of senior U.S. officials with access to intelligence on Iraq who thought the [Bush] administration claims [that Iraq purchased aluminum tubes from China to use for uranium enrichment] were fraudulent. …These officials, they said in the fall [October 8] of 2002, ‘charge that administration hawks […]
10/8/2002
On October 8, 2002, “CIA Director George Tenet declassified a letter he had sent to Senator Bob Graham [D-FL], chairman of the Senate committee. …It stated that the CIA has concluded that ‘Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or CBW (chemical or biological weapons) against […]
10/7/2002
From the Senate floor in response to President Bush’s Cincinnati speech, “Both in terms of justifications for an invasion and in terms of the mission and the plan for the invasion, the administration’s arguments do not add up. They do not add up to a coherent basis for a new major war in the middle […]
10/7/2002
President George W. Bush’s remarks from the Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio: “While there are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone — because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are controlled by a murderous tyrant who […]
10/7/2002
President George W. Bush, when outlining the Iraqi threat: “We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy — the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These […]
10/7/2002
In a speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center (Ohio) on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy–the United States. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back more than a decade. …And we know that […]
10/7/2002
In a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘While there are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone–because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are controlled by a murderous tyrant who had already used […]
10/7/2002
In a speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: “Iraq possessed (1) a biological weapons arsenal ‘capable of killing millions’; (2) ballistic missiles with ranges ‘to strike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and other nations–in a region where more than 135,000 American civilians and service members live and work’; and […]
10/7/2002
On October 7, 2002, the forced confession of alleged Al Qaeda commander Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi was used during a President Bush speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, “to buttress its allegations that Iraq was on the verge of supplying Al Qaeda with…weapons of mass destruction.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 135 […]