| Colin Powell, February 2001:
"[Saddam] has not developed any significant capability with
respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project
conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our
policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq."
Condoleeza Rice, July 2001: "We are able to keep his arms from him.
His military forces have not been rebuilt."
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5 trillion reasons why Iraq was of no threat to the USA |
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Iraq:
The
Words of Mass Deception
The Lie
of the Century
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George W Bush, March 2002: "F___ Saddam. we're taking him
out."
Ministers were warned in July 2002 that
Britain was committed to taking part in an American-
led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of
making it legal. [Times]
The RAF and US aircraft doubled
the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002
in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the
allies an excuse for war ... By the end of August the raids
had become a full air offensive. [Times]
They dropped precision-guided munitions on Saddam Hussein's
major western air-defense facility, clearing the path for
Special Forces helicopters that lay in wait in Jordan. Earlier
attacks had been carried out against Iraqi command and control
centers, radar detection systems, Revolutionary Guard units,
communication centers and mobile air-defense systems. The
Pentagon's goal was clear: Destroy Iraq's ability to resist.
This was war. ... This was September 2002--a month before
Congress had voted to give President Bush the authority he used
to invade Iraq, two months before the United Nations brought the
matter to a vote and more than six months before "shock and awe"
officially began. [Democracy
Now]
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Dick Cheney
Speech
to VFW National Convention
August 26, 2002Simply stated, there is no doubt
that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
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George W. Bush
Speech
to UN General Assembly
September 12, 2002Right now, Iraq is expanding and
improving facilities that were used for the production of
biological weapons.
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Ari Fleischer
Press
Briefing
December 2, 2002If he declares he has none, then
we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading
the world.
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Ari Fleischer
Press
Briefing
January 9, 2003We know for a fact that there are
weapons there.
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George W. Bush
State
of the Union Address
January 28, 2003Our intelligence officials
estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce
as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.
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Colin Powell
Remarks
to UN Security Council
February 5, 2003We know that Saddam Hussein is
determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is
determined to make more.
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George W. Bush
Radio
Address
February 8, 2003We have sources that tell us that
Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders
to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator
tells us he does not have.
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Colin Powell
Interview
with Radio France International
February 28, 2003If Iraq had disarmed itself,
gotten rid of its weapons of mass destruction over the
past 12 years, or over the last several months since (UN
Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be facing the
crisis that we now have before us . . . But the
suggestion that we are doing this because we want to go
to every country in the Middle East and rearrange all of
its pieces is not correct.
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Colin Powell
Remarks
to UN Security Council
March 7, 2003So has the strategic decision been
made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by
the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think our judgment has
to be clearly not.
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George W. Bush
Address
to the Nation
March 17, 2003Intelligence gathered by this and
other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime
continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal
weapons ever devised.
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WAR, WHATEVER
GEORGE Bush's top security adviser ...
admitted the US would attack Iraq even if UN
inspectors fail to find weapons.
Dr Richard Perle stunned MPs by insisting a
"clean bill of health" from UN chief
weapons inspector Hans Blix would not halt
America's war machine. [Mirror]
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Ari Fleisher
Press
Briefing
March 21, 2003Well, there is no question that we
have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of
mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly .
. . all this will be made clear in the course of the
operation, for whatever duration it takes.
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Gen. Tommy Franks
Press
Conference
March 22, 2003There is no doubt that the regime of
Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And
. . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be
identified, found, along with the people who have
produced them and who guard them.
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Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman
Washington
Post, p. A27
March 23, 2003I have no doubt we're going to find
big stores of weapons of mass destruction.
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Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark
Press
Briefing
March 22, 2003One of our top objectives is to find
and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.
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Donald Rumsfeld
ABC
Interview
March 30, 2003We know where they are. They're in
the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south
and north somewhat.
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Neocon scholar Robert Kagan
Washington
Post op-ed
April 9, 2003Obviously the administration intends
to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S.
forces find -- and there will be plenty.
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Ari Fleischer
Press
Briefing
April 10, 2003But make no mistake -- as I said
earlier -- we have high confidence that they have weapons
of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and
it is about. And we have high confidence it will be
found.
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George W. Bush
NBC
Interview
April 24, 2003We are learning more as we
interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and
people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he
destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will
find them.
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Donald Rumsfeld
Press
Briefing
April 25, 2003There are people who in large
measure have information that we need . . . so that we
can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that
country.
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George W. Bush
Remarks
to Reporters
May 3, 2003We'll find them. It'll be a matter of
time to do so.
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Colin Powell
Remarks
to Reporters
May 4, 2003I'm absolutely sure that there are
weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will
be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.
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Donald Rumsfeld
Fox
News Interview
May 4, 2003We never believed that we'd just tumble
over weapons of mass destruction in that country.
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George W. Bush
Remarks
to Reporters
May 6, 2003I'm not surprised if we begin to
uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein -- because
he had a weapons program.
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Condoleeza Rice
Reuters
Interview
May 12, 2003U.S. officials never expected that
"we were going to open garages and find"
weapons of mass destruction.
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Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander
101st Airborne
Press
Briefing
May 13, 2003I just don't know whether it was all
destroyed years ago -- I mean, there's no question that
there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether they
were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're
still hidden.
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Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of
the Marine Corps
Interview
with Reporters
May 21, 2003Before the war, there's no doubt in my
mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,
biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I
still expect them to be found.
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Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint
Chiefs of Staff
NBC
Today Show interview
May 26, 2003Given time, given the number of
prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident
that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.
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Donald Rumsfeld
Remarks
to the Council on Foreign Relations
May 27, 2003They may have had time to destroy
them, and I don't know the answer.
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Paul Wolfowitz
Vanity
Fair interview
May 28, 2003For bureaucratic reasons, we settled
on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as
justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one
reason everyone could agree on.
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Lt. Gen. James Conway,
1st Marine Expeditionary Force
Press
Interview
May 30, 2003It was a surprise to me then — it
remains a surprise to me now — that we have not
uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward
dispersal sites. Believe me, it's not for lack of trying.
We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point
between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're
simply not there.
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Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton,
Defense Intelligence Agency
Press
Conference
May 30, 2003Do I think we're going to find
something? Yeah, I kind of do, because I think there's a
lot of information out there."
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Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz
cited bureaucratic reasons for focusing on Saddam Hussein's
weapons of mass destruction, and said a "huge" result of the war
was to enable Washington to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia.
"The truth is that for reasons that have a
lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the
one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass
destruction as the core reason." [USA
Today] |
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Straight Talk from
George Galloway
"I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have
weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims,
that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to
your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I
told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would
resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the
fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the
end of the beginning.
Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and
you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives;
1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies;
15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies." |
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| Asked why a nuclear power such as
North Korea was being treated differently from Iraq, where hardly
any weapons of mass destruction had been found, [Paul Wolfowitz]
said: "Let's look at it simply. The most important difference
between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no
choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil." [Guardian
4/6/2003] |
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When will the US media grow
the gonads
to run this
front page? |
See also:
Iraq: The Trail of
Disinformation
What Really Happened
June 30, 2005
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