In “a speech Vice President [Dick] Cheney gave to the Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] on August 26, 2002…he said, ‘Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.’ Later […]
8/26/2002
Vice President Dick “Cheney made the argument in a 26 August 2002 address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. ‘Some concede that Saddam is evil, power-hungry, and a menace–but that, until he crosses the threshold of actually possessing nuclear weapons, we should rule out preemptive action. That logic seems to me to be deeply flawed. […]
8/26/2002
On August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said in an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Nashville, Tennessee: ” ‘Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has the weapons of mass destruction [and] there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against […]
8/26/2002
On August 26, 2002, during a speech he made in Nashville, Tennessee, to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘The Iraqi regime has in fact been very busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents, and they continue to pursue the nuclear program they began so […]
8/26/2002
According to CNN on August 26, 2002: “Senator Chuck Hagel [R-NE], who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, said point-blank, ‘Saddam is not in league with al-Qaeda. I have not seen any intelligence that would lead me to connect Saddam Hussein with al-Qaeda.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 110 […]
8/25/2002
On August 25, 2002, former Secretary of State James Baker published an article in The New York Times. “…Baker did not directly oppose war with Iraq, but he urged the president [Bush] to seek a new UN Security Council resolution requiring Iraq to submit to no-warning inspections and ‘authorizing all necessary means to enforce it,’ […]
8/25/2002
” ‘Regime change in Iraq is the policy of the current [Bush] administration, just as it was the policy of its predecessor,’ he [former Chief of Staff James A. Baker III] wrote in the New York Times [on August 25, 2002]. ‘That being the case, the issue for policymakers to resolve is not whether to […]
8/25/2002
“As the move toward war [in Iraq] began gaining momentum in late August 2002, [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas] Feith created another new organization, the Office of Special Plans [OSP]. Its purpose was to conduct advance war planning for Iraq, and one of its most important responsibilities was ‘media strategy.’ …Above all, the office […]
8/21/2002
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul “Wolfowitz, the architect of the warlord policy [in Afghanistan], was in a state of denial about the U.S. role in supporting the warlords. ‘I don’t think in most parts of the country that the power of the warlords is a function of any support they get from us,’ he said […]
8/21/2002
“On August 21 [2002], [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld visited [President] Bush at his Crawford [Texas] ranch to discuss a range of military issues. In a brief appearance before the press afterward, the president complained that the media seemed to be focusing on the possibility of military action in Iraq. There was, he said, too […]