In an op-ed piece he wrote that appeared in The Washington Post on February 13, 2002, former Assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Ken Adelman, wrote: “Hussein constitutes the number one threat against American security and civilization. Unlike Osama bin Laden, he has billions in government funds, scores of government research labs working feverishly […]
2/13/2002
“The next day [February 13, 2002] at a press conference the president [Bush] said of Iraq, ‘I will reserve whatever options I have, I’ll keep them close to my vest.’ “ – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 103 […]
2/13/2002
“On February 13, 2002, Knight Ridder reported that ‘President Bush has decided to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power and ordered the CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies to devise a combination of military, diplomatic and covert steps to achieve that goal.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 82 […]
2/12/2002
On February 12, 2002, “regarding the threats that confront the United States, he [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] said, ‘There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t […]
2/12/2002
“President Bush has decided to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power and ordered the CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies to devise a combination of military, diplomatic and covert steps to achieve that goal, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday [February 12, 2002]. No military strike is imminent, but Bush has concluded that Saddam and […]
2/12/2002
“On February 12 [2002], the DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] issued ‘a finished intelligence product,’ titled ‘Niamey [Niger] Signed an Agreement to Sell 500 Tons of Uranium a Year to Baghdad,’ and passed it to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. Even though the CIA had dismissed the Niger claims, Cheney was able to give […]
2/12/2002
Regarding the supposed contract for Niger to supply Iraq with yellowcake uranium: “No one in the intelligence community bothered to ask the Italians [who had circulated the text] to see an actual copy of the Iraq-Niger contract. Nevertheless, the DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] distributed a report, on February 12, 2002, with an unambiguous title: ‘Niamey […]
2/12/2002
On February 12, 2002, Secretary of State Colin “Powell testified before the Senate Budget Committee. He took a hard line on Saddam, noting that since 1998 the policy of the United States had been ‘regime change’ in Iraq. ‘And we are looking at a variety of options that would bring that about,’ he said. And […]
2/11/2002
President George W. Bush remarks on a budget increase directed toward the War on Terror: “And our terrorists — and the threats to America not only are from the terrorist organizations that hate freedom and kill in the name of religion; our mission also includes countries which develop weapons of mass destruction, nations with a history […]
2/7/2002
“Bush signed an action memorandum dated Feb. 7, 2002, addressed to Vice President Dick Cheney, which denied baseline protections to al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners under the Third Geneva Convention. That memo, according to a recently released bipartisan report issued by the Senate Armed Services Committee, opened the door to ‘considering aggressive techniques,’ which were then […]