Appearing on Meet the Press on September 8, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘I’m not here today to make a specific allegation that Iraq was somehow responsible for 9/11. I can’t say that. On the other hand, since we did that interview [discussing possible Iraqi involvement in 9/11 on December 9, 2001], new […]
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In an interview on Meet the Press on September 8, 2002, Vice President Dick “Cheney readily affirmed that the aluminum tubes, intercepted during shipment to Iraq, were designed to produce ‘what you have to have to build a bomb.’ ” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 413 […]
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According to a New York Times article on September 8, 2002: ” ‘More than a decade after Saddam Hussein agreed to give up weapons of mass destruction, Iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb, Bush administration officials said today.’ […]
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When Vice President Dick Cheney was asked, on NBC Meet the Press on 9/8/02, what specifically Saddam had obtained to make Cheney believe Saddam could or did to enhance his Nuclear Development Program, he responded, “Well, in the nuclear weapons arena, you’ve got sort of three key elements that you need to acquire. You need […]
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“ ‘The International Atomic Energy Agency has no evidence that Iraq is developing nuclear weapons at a former site previously destroyed by UN inspectors, despite claims made over the weekend by [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, western diplomatic sources told The Guardian yesterday [September 8, 2002].’ ” – Amy Goodman with David Goodman, The Exception […]
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“With no reason to think they were being lied to, the public was left to believe that Saddam Hussein had restarted his nuclear weapons program and was just six months away from having a working atomic bomb. ‘Senior [Bush administration] officials made statements which I can only describe as dishonest,’ said senior State Department intelligence official […]
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“…the words of national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on September 8 [2002] had made headlines: ‘The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly [Saddam] can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.’ ” – Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush […]
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” ‘The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he [Saddam Hussein] can acquire nuclear weapons,’ [National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice said on CNN on September 8 [2002], echoing that morning’s New York Times story. ‘But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.’ ” – […]
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A New York Times article on September 8, 2002, “quote[s] Ahmed al-Shemri (a pseudonym), who contends that he worked in Iraq’s chemical weapons program before defecting in 2000. ‘ *All of Iraq is one large storage facility,* said Mr. Shemri, who claimed to have worked for many years at the Muthanna State Enterprise, once Iraq’s […]
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According to CNN on September 8, 2002: “…numerous [Bush] administration spokespersons fanned out to give statements to the national media that a ‘mushroom cloud’ might threaten American cities unless we invaded Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from giving a nuclear weapon to the same terrorist group that had already attacked us with deadly consequences.” – […]