Regarding the need for another resolution before going to war against Iraq, President Bush addressed the United Nations on September 12, 2002. ” ‘We will work with the U.N. Security Council for the necessary resolutions,’ he pledged, to make one more attempt to secure Iraqi disarmament without resorting to force.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The […]
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At the U.N. headquarters in New York on September 12, 2002, “Due to speak immediately before [President] Bush, he [U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan] had guaranteed the morning headlines by releasing the text of his remarks early, including a warning that invading Iraq without U.N. support would be a grave mistake and a violation of international […]
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“…in September [12] 2002, the Bush administration and the British government [on September 24, 2002] presented further evidence that Iraq had been reconstituting its arsenal, including satellite photos and documents detailing Saddam’s renewed effort to build long-range ballistic missiles.” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 33 […]
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In an address to the UN on September 12, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘Saddam Hussein continues to develop weapons of mass destruction. The first time we may be completely certain he has nuclear weapons is when, God forbid, he uses one. …[Iraq presents] a grave and gathering danger.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution […]
9/12/2002
“The next day [September 12, 2002] President Bush addressed the UN General Assembly for twenty-six minutes, most of them devoted to a description of Iraq as ‘a grave and gathering danger.’ He explained his feeling of urgency: ‘With every step the Iraqi regime takes toward gaining and deploying the most terrible weapons, our own options […]
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On September 12, 2002, “more than three dozen senators were invited to the Pentagon for a briefing by [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld on weapons of mass destruction. One of those attending, Sen. Max Cleland [Democrat] of Georgia, was surprised to find Vice President [Dick] Cheney and CIA director [George] Tenet also waiting there. ‘It […]
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“In his September [12] 2002 speech to the UN, President Bush underlined the challenge to the UN itself: ‘The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world […]
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The October 1, 2002, National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was produced by the CIA in three weeks, as opposed to the usual six to 10 months. Regarding the short-notice, request, then-CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “I reluctantly agreed and, on September 12, 2002, directed the National Intelligence Council staff to initiate a crash project to produce an […]
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“President Bush managed the crisis in a way that almost guaranteed that the use of force [in Iraq] would become the only feasible option. He did this backing it with the ultimatum in his UN speech of September [12, 2002], and by ordering a massive buildup of American arms and military forces in the region, […]
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In his address at the UN General Assembly on September 12, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘if the [Iraqi] regime wishes peace,’ it would have to do five things: 1. Comply with the WMD disarmament objectives. 2. End all support for terrorism, and act to suppress terrorism. 3. Cease the persecution of its civilian population. […]