“President Bush made the decision to take the Iraq issue through the UN Security Council before the annual UN General Assembly meeting that he addressed on September 12, 2002. …The decision by President Bush to include the UN in his solution to the Iraq problem was the defining decision that established the dynamics of the […]
9/11/2002
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on September 11, 2002, former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan “implored the president [Bush] to provide facts instead of sermons in making his case [for war in Iraq]. ‘ *Saddam is evil* is not enough,’ she wrote. ‘A number of people are evil, and some are even our friends. *Saddam […]
9/11/2002
On September 11, 2002, Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen “Hadley’s office asked the CIA to clear language so that President Bush could issue a statement saying, ‘Within the past few years, Iraq has resumed efforts to purchase large quantities of a type of uranium oxide known as yellowcake. …The regime was caught trying to purchase […]
9/11/2002
“Pakistani InterService Intelligence agents…captured [9/11 conspirator Ramzi] Binalshibh and others on September 11, 2002, after a fierce 9:30 a.m. gun battle in a five-story Karachi apartment building.” – John Ashcroft, Never Again, Page 268 […]
9/11/2002
“Ramzi Binalshibh, the 9/11 coconspirator, was arrested in September [11] 2002.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For Revenge, Page 436 […]
9/11/2002
In an address at Ellis Island, New York, on September 11, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘We will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder.’ ” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 42 […]
9/10/2002
“Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Joseph Biden [D-DE] and the ranking Republican on the committee, Richard Lugar of Indiana, wrote the president [Bush] on September 10 [2002] cautioning against a vote on any war resolution [against Iraq] until after the [November 2002] elections. Both men made it clear that leaving Saddam with weapons of mass […]
9/9/2002
“On August 27 [2002], an NSA [National Security Agency] listening post intercepted a satellite telephone call placed from somewhere in Karachi, Pakistan, to a known al Qaeda operative. …On September 9 [2002]…Pakistani security forces bagged three Yemenis after an extended exchange of gunfire. One of them was Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who was well known to […]
9/9/2002
In an article for the New Statesman on June 9, 2003, former British politician Clare Short said: ” ‘…by 9 September [2002], [U.K. Prime Minister Tony] Blair and [President] Bush were agreed that there had to be military action in Iraq. My conclusion now is that Blair had promised Bush that the UK would support […]
9/8/2002
Then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: “In one now infamous case, we used the CIA’s assessment that the aluminum tubes [discovered in Iraq] were for centrifuges–a key element in a nuclear weapons program. I misspoke during one of the interviews [on CNN’s Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer on September 8, 2002], saying that the tubes […]