Former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft wrote an op-ed for the August 15, 2002, Wall Street Journal titled ‘Don’t Attack Saddam.’ ” ‘There is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations,’ he wrote, ‘and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.’ To attack Iraq, while ignoring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he said, ‘could turn the […]
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In August 2002, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice “created an inter-agency group of people from State, the CIA, the Joint Chiefs, and the White House who were charged with coordinating the government’s preparations leading up to the invasion [of Iraq], including securing bases in the region and getting overflight permission from other countries. The body […]
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When the Bush Administration was coining the term ‘axis of evil’ in January 2002–which included Iraq, North Korea, and Iran–“the extent of Iran’s nuclear ambitions wasn’t fully documented–it would not be until August 2002 that Iranian dissidents would blow the whistle about two nuclear power plants in Arak and Natanz, in central Iran–and the country […]
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” ‘Saddam’s goals have little in common with the terrorists who threaten us, and there is little incentive for him to make common cause with them,’ [former National Security Advisor Brent] Scowcroft wrote in a [August 15, 2002] Wall Street Journal op-ed urging the Bush administration not to attack Iraq. ‘He is unlikely to risk […]
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“…Brent Scowcroft, the former national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, warned in a [August 15, 2002] Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled ‘Don’t Attack Saddam’ that an invasion of Iraq would be both a diversion from and an impediment to the war against al Qaeda. He felt ‘our preeminent security policy…is the war on […]
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In his Wall Street Journal op-ed on August 15, 2002, former National Security Advisor “Brent Scowcroft warns that in the event of an invasion [of Iraq], ‘Dire consequences would be the effect in the region.’ Among these would be ‘an explosion of outrage against us’ and a threat to ‘stability and security in a vital […]
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“The C.I.A. officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 against [al Qaeda operations chief] Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Scott Shane, “Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects,” The New York Times, April 19, 2009 […]
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Bush I National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft wrote an article on August 15, 2002, for The Wall Street Journal titled, ‘Don’t Attack Saddam.’ ” ‘We will all be better off when he is gone,’ the retired general and Bush family confidant began. …There was ‘scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less […]
8/15/2002
Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen “Hadley and [vice presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis ‘Scooter’] Libby were part of another secret office that had been set up within the White House. Known as the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), it was established in August 2002 by Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, Jr., at the […]
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“When Jalal Talabani and other Iraqi opposition leaders had gone to Washington to confer with [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld and [Vice President Dick] Cheney in August 2002, he had warned about the potential for looting. There were many poor people in Baghdad, he cautioned, and they were likely to take the law into their […]