” ‘Each passing day could be the one on which the Iraqi regime gives anthrax or VX–nerve gas–or someday a nuclear weapon to a terrorist ally,’ he [President Bush] declared at a White House ceremony on September 26 [2002].” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 100 […]
9/26/2002
On September 26, 2002, Canadian telecommunications engineer Maher Arar was apprehended by the CIA because his name had been falsely implicated and placed on the terrorist watch list. He was taken to Syria, where interrogators “whipped his hands repeatedly with two-inch-thick electrical cables and kept him in a body-sized slot of a windowless underground cell…which […]
9/25/2002
President George W. Bush, when asked by a member of the press if Saddam was a larger threat than al Qaeda: “That’s a — that is an interesting question. I’m trying to think of something humorous to say. (Laughter.) But I can’t when I think about al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. They’re both risks, they’re both […]
9/25/2002
According to the Silberman-Robb Commission’s report, which was released on March 31, 2005: ” ‘In late September 2002, DCI [Director of Central Intelligence, George] Tenet told the Senate’s Intelligence and Armed Services Committees (and subsequently the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) that *we know Iraq has developed a redundant capability to produce biological warfare agents using […]
9/25/2002
” ‘You can’t distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror,’ said a confident [President] Bush in [September 25] 2002.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page xlix […]
9/25/2002
“In late September 2002, NSA [National Security Agency] Director Michael Hayden signed off on a CIA-produced National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq’s WMD program that not only turned out to be wrong in almost all respects, but also served as the principal justification for the Bush administration to lead the United States to war with […]
9/25/2002
In an effort to prepare a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq in only three weeks’ time in the fall of 2002, “the CIA frantically had to verify dubious bits of intelligence, including one questionable nugget that [CIA Director George] Tenet had indiscreetly divulged to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee […]
9/25/2002
“As the president [Bush] declared in September [25] 2002, ‘You can’t distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror. …I can’t distinguish between the two, because they’re both equally as bad, and equally as evil, and equally as destructive.’ ” – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 29 […]
9/25/2002
” ‘You can’t distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror. They’re equally as bad. They work in concert,’ [President] Bush said on September 25, 2002.” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 144 […]
9/25/2002
On September 25, 2002, “President Bush actually told the country, ‘You cannot distinguish between al-Qaeda and Saddam.’ He also said, ‘The true threat facing our country is an al-Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 108 […]