“On February 1, 2001, two days after the [first] NSC [National Security Council] meeting, Bush officials circulated a memo titled ‘Plan for post-Saddam Iraq’ and began discussing what to do with Iraq’s oil wealth.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 202 […]
2/1/2001
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, at the National Security Council meeting on February 1, 2001: ” ‘It’s not my specific objective to get rid of Saddam Hussein…I’m after the weapons of mass destruction. Regime change isn’t my prime concern.’ ” – Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty, Page 85 […]
2/1/2001
While discussing Iraq in the second meeting of the National Security Council, on February 1, 2001, Secretary of State Colin “Powell began by discussing the new strategy for ‘targeted sanctions.’ But, after a moment, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld interrupted. ‘Sanctions are fine,’ he said. ‘But what we really want to think about is going […]
2/1/2001
Iraq was discussed in the second meeting of the National Security Council on February 1, 2001. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spoke “about how removing Mr. Hussein would ‘demonstrate what U.S. policy is all about’ and help transform the Middle East… Mr. Rumsfeld talked at the meeting ‘in general terms about post-Saddam Iraq, dealing with […]
1/31/2001
Then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: “I called [counterterrorism czar Richard] Clarke to my office on January 31 [2001] and essentially told him that he had a green light to develop a strategy. …What was needed now was a strategy not to ‘roll back’ al Qaeda but to eliminate the threat.” – Condoleezza Rice, No […]
1/31/2001
In the final report of the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, released on January 31, 2001, “seven Democrats and seven Republicans unanimously agreed that ‘the combination of unconventional weapons proliferation with the persistence of international terrorism will end the relative invulnerability of the U.S. homeland to catastrophic attack. A direct attack against American citizens […]
1/31/2001
Senator Gary Hart (D-CO) and former Senator Warren Rudman (R-NH) were co-chairmen “of the U.S. Commission on National Security, a bipartisan panel that conducted the most thorough investigation of U.S. security challenges since World War II. After completing the report, which warned that a devastating terrorist attack on America was imminent and called for the […]
1/31/2001
“On January 31, 2001, a bipartisan commission led by former senators Gary Hart [D-CO] and Warren Rudman [R-NH] warned Congress that a devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil could be imminent. …’the combination of unconventional weapons proliferation with the persistence of international terrorism will end the relative invulnerability of the U.S. homeland to catastrophic attack.’ […]
1/30/2001
The first meeting of President Bush’s National Security Council took place on January 30, 2001. When the subject of regime change in Iraq was discussed, George “Tenet, the CIA director, unrolled oversized surveillance photographs on the table showing antiaircraft batteries around Baghdad and what he called chemical weapons factories. Secretary of the Treasury Paul O’Neill […]
1/30/2001
The first meeting of President Bush’s National Security Council took place on January 30, 2001. When the subject of regime change in Iraq was discussed, Secretary of State Colin “Powell suggested it was time to revamp sanctions to make them more effective. ‘Why are we even bothering with sanctions?’ retorted [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld. […]