President George W. Bush calls for a change in energy policy: “I know energy policy is very important, and we spent a great deal of time with Jimmy and Ed talking about how to get a good energy bill out of the Congress. It’s an energy bill, by the way, that is needed more than ever, particularly […]
4/8/2002
On April 8, 2002, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Patrick Philbin sent a memo to Assistant Attorney General Daniel Bryant titled, ‘Swift Justice Authorization Act.’ Philbin concluded that the proposed Swift Justice Authorization Act was invalid, as it gave Congress power that encroached on the President’s authority as Commander-in-Chief to conduct military operations and regulate military […]
4/8/2002
“The Washington Post reported on April 8, 2002, that the Pentagon ‘is seeking authority to spend tens of millions of dollars on military assistance to unspecified foreign countries or *indigenous forces* authority that traditionally has rested with the State Department.’ This initiative sparked concern among some senior State Department officials who saw the Pentagon as […]
4/6/2002
President George W. Bush, during a Joint Press Conference with the British Prime Minister: “Adam, the Prime Minister and I, of course, talked about Iraq. We both recognize the danger of a man who’s willing to kill his own people harboring and developing weapons of mass destruction. This guy, Saddam Hussein, is a leader who gasses […]
4/6/2002
” ‘The president [Bush] is right to draw attention to the threat of weapons of mass destruction. That threat is real,’ he [U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair] said [while visiting Bush’s Crawford, Texas, ranch on April 6, 2002]. ‘How we deal with it, that’s a matter we discuss.’ ” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life […]
4/6/2002
British Prime Minister Tony “Blair met with [President] Bush in Crawford, Texas, on April 6 [2002] and promised to join a military campaign for Saddam’s removal, but only, Blair stressed, after ‘the options for action to eliminate Iraq’s WMD through the UN weapons inspectors had been exhausted.’ ” – Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page […]
4/5/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “Mr Blair and President Bush meet in Crawford [Texas]; Mr Blair makes his College Station speech.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” Page 146, IraqInquiry.org.uk, April 5, 2002 […]
4/5/2002
“In an interview with NBC on April 5 [2002], [U.K.] Prime Minister Tony Blair said about Saddam Hussein: ‘We know he has stockpiles of major amounts of chemical and biological weapons. We know that he’s tried to acquire nuclear capability.’ …This was only two and a half months after the Foreign Office had said there […]
4/4/2002
President George W. Bush regarding a United Nations vote to “actively oppose terror in all its forms”: “Those governments, like Iraq, that reward parents for the sacrifice of their children are guilty of soliciting murder of the worst kind. All who care about the Palestinian people should join in condemning and acting against groups like […]
4/3/2002
According to information in an April 3, 2002, Associated Press article: “The most recent tactic Saddam has employed against the peace process involves subsidizing the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. On Saddam’s gruesome pay scale, the families of gunmen who die in attacks on Israelis receive $10,000, while relatives of suicide bombers earn $25,000.” – […]