In President Bush’s speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 2002, “The president likened the threat the country faces today from Iraq to the Cuban missile crisis, which unfolded exactly 40 years ago this month. The comparison was intended, his aides acknowledged, to give the confrontation a sense of urgency and to explain why the […]
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On October 7, 2002, “In the buildup to the 2003 invasion, President Bush invoked the defection of ‘the head of Iraq’s military industries’ [Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamel] as a crucial factor in forcing the Iraqi regime to admit to the production of a ‘massive stockpile of biological weapons that has never been accounted for, and […]
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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 […]
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“On October 7 [2002], [CIA Director George] Tenet released selected material [from the classified October 1 National Intelligence Estimate], including an assessment that ‘Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks’ against the United States with conventional or chemical or biological weapons. Indeed, Tenet went on to say, ‘Should […]
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CIA Director George “Tenet, in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee on October 7, 2002, reported that the intelligence community had accumulated ‘solid reporting of senior-level contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda going back a decade.’ ” – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Pages 21-22 […]
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On October 7, 2002, CIA Director George “Tenet sent a letter to Senator Bob Graham [D-FL], who was then chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Tenet laid out his evidence for a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda: ‘*Our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda is evolving and is based […]
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President Bush made a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 2002. ” ‘Many Americans have raised legitimate questions about the nature of the [Iraqi] threat, about the urgency of action–why be concerned now–about the link between Iraq developing weapons of terror and the wider war on terrorism,’ Bush said. The danger was real, he […]
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In a speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center (Ohio) on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. …Saddam would be […]
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In a speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center (Ohio) on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: “Iraq was ‘a grave threat to peace’ because of its ‘history of aggression’ and ‘drive toward an arsenal of terror.’ Iraq ‘possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons’ and ‘is seeking nuclear weapons.’ Bush then went on to explain […]
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In an October 7, 2002, letter to Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director “George Tenet declared, based on credible reports, that ‘Iraq has provided training to Al Qaeda members in the areas of poisons and gases and making conventional bombs.’ ” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The […]