“As for threats to the United States, the NSS [National Security Strategy, written on September 17, 2002] holds that the ‘gravest danger our nation faces lies at the crossroads of radicalism and technology’–specifically, the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by enemies of the United States. ‘Our enemies have openly declared that they are seeking […]
9/17/2002
The Bush Administration’s National Security Strategy of September 17, 2002, said: ” ‘…our first imperative is to clarify what we stand for: the United States must defend liberty and justice because these principles are right and true for all people everywhere.’ ” – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 50 […]
9/17/2002
“[T]he [Bush] administration’s provocative September [17] 2002 The National Security Strategy of the United States of America…embraced regime change in rogue states, aggressively promoted democracy, viewed American military supremacy as a given, and, in a stunning departure from traditional U.S. foreign policy norms, asserted the right to launch preemptive wars to protect national interests.” – […]
9/17/2002
The National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 17, 2002, states: “that we must ‘dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States.’ At the same time, it defends American primacy on moral grounds: ‘In keeping with our heritage and principles, […]
9/17/2002
The National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 17, 2002, “commits the United States to ‘champion the cause of human dignity and oppose those who resist it’ by creating ‘a balance of power that favors human freedom: conditions in which all nations and all societies can choose for themselves the rewards and […]
9/17/2002
According to The National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 17, 2002: ” ‘Given the goals of rogue states and terrorists, the United States can no longer rely on a reactive posture as we have in the past.’ Instead, America must identify and destroy the threat posed by those who would do […]
9/17/2002
In a secret hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 17, 2002, CIA director George Tenet stated: ” ‘Iraq provided al Qaeda with various kinds of training–combat, bombmaking, and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear.’ He based that statement on the confessions of a single source–Ibn al-Shakh al-Libi, a fringe player who had been beaten, […]
9/17/2002
In an interview on Meet the Press on September 17, 2002, when asked if the war in Iraq was based on oil, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said it was. “I base that on the fact that there is $5 trillion worth of oil above and in the ground in Iraq, that individuals involved in the […]
9/16/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “122. Dr Naji Sabri, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, wrote to Mr Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, on 16 September to inform him that, following the series of talks between Iraq and the UN in New York and Vienna between March and July 2002 and the […]
9/16/2002
President George W. Bush stated: “And if Iraq regimes continues to defy us, and the world, we will move deliberately, yet decisively, to hold Iraq to account. We owe this to our children. We must anticipate. Somebody said, well, you know, they don’t have a nuclear weapon. I said, well, the most dangerous thing — and we […]