Brent Scowcroft, President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Advisor, wrote an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal which was published on August 15, 2002. It read: ” ‘There is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the September 11 attacks. Indeed, Saddam’s goals have little in common with the […]
8/15/2002
“At a meeting in August 2002 of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA] on the proposed war in Iraq, Douglas J. Feith, the Pentagon’s under secretary of Defense for Policy, showed up at the meeting (which several DIA analysts said was very unusual) and proceeded to criticize the CIA’s failure to turn up any link […]
8/15/2002
“Under the headline ‘Don’t Attack Saddam,’ [former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft’s] August 15 [2002] column [in The Wall Street Journal] stated…an invasion [of Iraq] would require that the United states pursue a ‘go it alone’ strategy, and would ‘result in a serious degradation in international cooperation with us against terrorism. And make no mistake, […]
8/14/2002
On August 14, 2002, National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice chaired a principals meeting in Washington. The group approved for the president’s [Bush’s] signature a top secret document, entitled ‘Iraq: Goals, Objectives and Strategy,’ which laid out broad goals for a military operation that sought both to win a war and to transform a nation. The […]
8/14/2002
“In mid-August [14] 2002, top Bush administration officials drafted a top secret document for the president to sign, laying out the goal of the [Iraq] war. Blandly titled ‘Iraq: Goals, Objectives and Strategy,’ the document outlined the broad goals for a military operation. It asserted that a free Iraq would eliminate the threat of WMD, […]
8/14/2002
According to an August 14, 2002, article in The Los Angeles Times: “…in August [2002], [Attorney General John] Ashcroft disclosed a plan that ‘would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants.’ ” – Peter […]
8/14/2002
In a revised paper titled ‘Iraq: Goals, Objectives, Strategy’ that she circulated to the Principals, (the members of the National Security Council other than President Bush), on August 14, 2002, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice stated: ” ‘Free Iraq in order to: *Eliminate Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD), their means of delivery and associate […]
8/13/2002
Former CIA Director George Tenet discussed a paper the CIA published regarding possible consequences of the Iraq war: “Dated August 13, 2002, it was titled, ‘The Perfect Storm: Planning for Negative Consequences of Invading Iraq.’ The paper provided worst-case scenarios that might emerge from a U.S.-led regime-change effort. The summary said that following an invasion: […]
8/10/2002
President George W. Bush, when asked if the American people are prepared for the casualties of war: “Well, I think that that presumes there’s some kind of imminent war plan. As I said, I have no timetable. What I do believe the American people understand is that weapons of mass destruction in the hands of leaders […]
8/10/2002
On August 10, 2002, “Germany’s [Chancellor] Gerhard Schroeder pledges flatly that ‘Germany will not participate’ in U.S.-led military action against Iraq because ‘we need more peace, not more war.’ ” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 89 […]