“A top-secret National Security Presidential Directive entitled ‘Iraq: Goals, Objectives and Strategy’ and signed by [President] Bush on August 29 [2002] spoke unambiguously about the need to ‘free Iraq in order to eliminate Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, their means of delivery and associated programs, to prevent Iraq from breaking out of containment and becoming […]
8/29/2002
According to a Washington Post article on August 29, 2002: “A leaked draft version of a UN report on the failure to shut down terrorists’ cash flow said that ‘Al Qaeda is by all accounts *fit and well* and poised to strike again at leisure.’ (It had already struck at least a half-dozen times around […]
8/29/2002
“Only a few senior White House and Pentagon officials knew that on August 29 [2002] President Bush had personally approved the final version of a war plan drawn up by General [Tommy] Franks, the commander of CENTCOM [Central Command] in Tampa, Florida, for the invasion of Iraq.” – Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page […]
8/29/2002
In a BBC interview on August 29, 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: ” ‘We know that [Iraq] had weapons of mass destruction 12 years ago. And we know that in the four years since the inspectors were removed that they have been continuing to pursue that kind of technology, both with respect to […]
8/28/2002
On August 28, 2002, “The Washington Post found that two of the senior Qaeda leaders we hadn’t captured [Saif al-Adel and Mahfouz Ould Walid] were operating at full tilt out of Iran, where they were directly involved in planning terrorist operations, despite the Pentagon’s announcement that one of the pair (Mafouz Ould Walid) had been […]
8/26/2002
“On August 26 [2002], Vice President [Dick] Cheney had given a speech that [Army Major General James ‘Spider’] Marks believed must have been cleared by U.S. intelligence. ‘Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,’ Cheney said. ‘There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use […]
8/26/2002
“Vice President [Dick] Cheney emphatically shut down the nascent debate [regarding the case to invade Iraq] on August 26 [2002] when he asserted, ‘There is no doubt’ that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, or WMD.” – Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, Page 49 […]
8/26/2002
In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said, regarding the Arab reaction to U.S. presence in Iraq: ” ‘the streets in Basra and Baghdad are *sure to erupt in joy in the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans.* ‘ “ – Hans […]
8/26/2002
In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘If the United States could have preempted 9/11, we would have, no question. Should we be able to prevent another, much more devastating attack, we will, no question.’ ” – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 71 […]
8/26/2002
In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney “said that the information obtained from Saddam Hussein’s defected son-in-law [General Hussein Kamel] and the documents obtained from his chicken farm ‘should serve as a reminder to all that we often learned more as the result of defections […]