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Bush Administration Officials’ Lies about Iraq’s Supposed Weapons of Mass Destruction in Their Own Words -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By: Jackson Thoreau - 02/16/04 Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. - Dick Cheney, speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002 Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons. - George W. Bush, speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 12, 2002 No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. - Donald Rumsfeld, testimony to Congress, Sept. 19, 2002 The world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by Iraq. - George W. Bush, Nov. 23, 2002 If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world. - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, press briefing, Dec. 2, 2002 We know for a fact that there are weapons there. - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, press briefing, Jan. 9, 2003 What we know from UN inspectors over the course of the last decade is that Saddam Hussein possesses thousands of chemical warheads, that he possesses hundreds of liters of very dangerous toxins that can kill millions of people. - White House spokesman Dan Bartlett, CNN interview, Jan. 26, 2003 Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard, and VX nerve agent…. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. - George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003 We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more. - Colin Powell, remarks to UN Security Council, Feb. 5, 2003 We 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. - George W. Bush, radio address, Feb. 8, 2003 If 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. - Colin Powell, interview with Radio France International, Feb. 28, 2003 So 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. - Colin Powell, remarks to UN Security Council, March 7, 2003 Intelligence 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. - George W. Bush, address to the U.S., March 17, 2003 The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. - George W. Bush, address to U.S., March 19, 2003 Well, 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. - White House spokesman Ari Fleisher, press briefing, March 21, 2003 There 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. - Gen. Tommy Franks, press conference, March 22, 2003 I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction. - Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman, The Washington Post, March 23, 2003 One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites. - Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clark, press briefing, March 22, 2003 We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat. - Donald Rumsfeld, ABC interview, March 30, 2003 Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty. - Robert Kagan, The Washington Post, April 9, 2003 But 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. - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, press briefing, April 10, 2003 We 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. - George W. Bush, NBC interview, April 24, 2003 There 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. - Donald Rumsfeld, press briefing, April 25, 2003 We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so. - George W. Bush, remarks to reporters, May 3, 2003 I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now. - Colin Powell, remarks to reporters, May 4, 2003 I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein – because he had a weapons program. - George W. Bush, remarks to reporters, May 6, 2003 We said what we said because we meant it…..We continue to have confidence that WMD will be found. - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, press briefing, May 7, 2003 Before 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. - Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps, interview with reporters, May 21, 2003 Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction. - Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, NBC Today Show interview, May 26, 2003 Do I think we're going to find something? Yeah, I kind of do, because I think there's a lot of information out there." - Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton, Defense Intelligence Agency, press conference, May 30, 2003 You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons....They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two [the labs were later judged to not contain any such weapons, that they most likely were used for weather balloons]. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on, But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong. We found them. - George W. Bush, remarks to reporters, May 31, 2003 The backpedaling begins: We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country. - Donald Rumsfeld, Fox News interview, May 4, 2003 U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and find" weapons of mass destruction. - Condoleeza Rice, Reuters interview, May 12, 2003 I 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. - Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne, press briefing, May 13, 2003 I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons. [sEE NEXT QUOTE] - Donald Rumsfeld, Senate appropriations subcommittee on defense hearing, May 14, 2003 We believe [Hussein] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. - Dick Cheney, NBC's Meet the Press, March 16, 2003 They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer. - Donald Rumsfeld, remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations, May 27, 2003 It 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. - Lt. Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, press interview, May 30, 2003 I think some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent.’ Those were not words we used. We used 'grave and gathering' threat. [sEE NEXT QUOTE] - White House spokesman Scott McClellan, press briefing, Jan. 31, 2004 This is about an imminent threat. - White House spokesman Scott McClellan, press briefing, Feb. 10, 2003 After being asked whether Hussein was an “imminent” threat: Well, of course he is - White House spokesman Dan Bartlett, CNN interview, Jan. 26, 2003 After being asked whether the U.S. went to war because officials said Hussein’s alleged weapons were a direct, imminent threat to the U.S.: Absolutely. - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, press briefing, May 7, 2003 And finally, some truth: We urge you to... enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power. - Letter to President Clinton, signed by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and others, Jan. 26, 1998, http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm The U.S. should assert its military dominance over the world to shape “the international security order in line with American principles and interests,” push for “regime change” in Iraq and China, among other countries, and “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars….While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.” - “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century,” The Project for the New American Century [members include Cheney and Rumsfeld], Sept. 2000 Judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [saddam Hussein] at the same time. Not only UBL [Osama bin Laden]….Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not. - Donald Rumsfeld notes, Philadelphia Daily News, Sept. 11, 2001 For 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. - Paul Wolfowitz, Vanity Fair interview, May 28, 2003 From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go. Going after Saddam was topic "A" ten days after the inauguration - eight months before Sept. 11. - former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, CBS’ 60 Minutes, Jan. 11, 2004 I don't think they [WMD] existed. What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last [1991] Gulf War, and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s. - David Kay, former chief weapons inspector of the UN Special Commission on Iraq, Reuters, Jan. 24, 2004 Intelligence “analysts never said there was an imminent threat" from Iraq before the war. - CIA Director George Tenet, speech, Feb. 5, 2004 NOTE: Republicans impeached Clinton over a lie involving a private extramarital affair that he told in public, in which no one died. The Bush administration’s lies about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction have contributed to the deaths of more than 500 U.S. soldiers and thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians.

Iraq Threatens To Be Worse Than… Life Under Saddam -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By: Bruce S. Ticker - 02/27/04 ‘It could spell trouble for Iraq’s tiny Christian community.’ - Gordon Robertson on ‘The 700 Club’ No kidding, Gordo. They’re not the only Christians in trouble. Not to mention everyone else who wants peace in the Middle East. If current trends persist, George W. Bush could have replaced one mess in Iraq with a far larger mess. Hey, folks, the threat of civil war needs to be taken very seriously. Shiite Muslims who account for 60 percent of the majority offer every reason to fear that they will establish their own dictatorship. Worse, they could establish a partnership with Iran. If the Shiites ever take control, who knows what they’ll do? They will have the freedom to abuse Iraqi minorities as badly as Saddam Hussein abused dissenters, and perhaps even worse. This is what comes of rushing into war. Bush did everything but do cartwheels to convince us to launch an attack on Iraq, but given his record for lies and loyalty to corporate and pseudo-religious interests that was no surprise. Congress abdicated its constitutional responsibility to declare war not only legally but in practical terms. Both chambers spent only a few days before authorizing Bush to start a war whenever he felt like it. The majority of Congress did not bother to justify the need for an invasion. Nor did it take time to assess the risks. Such as the possibility that someone as bad or worse than Saddam Hussein could take over Iraq. No question that Saddam Hussein is a butcher who can safely be called a modern-day Hitler. In toppling and capturing the dictator, Bush did a good thing for probably the wrong reasons. In so doing, he opened a hornet’s nest and we have to wonder how dangerous the sting can be. The Shiites are starting out claiming that they want direct elections, which would leave them with majority control. There are fears that the Shiites will go on to create a theocracy and either force other Iraqis to convert to their form of Islam or treat minorities as second-class citizens. Then maybe they might form some kind of partnership with Iran and the Great Satan…that’s us…will be left out in the cold. This leaves the United States with a lose-lose choice – withdraw troops in a reasonable amount of time and allow the Shiites to do as they please, or maintain troops in Iraq for decades if not forever. The latter choice would mean sacrificing more American lives and spending ourselves into domestic destruction, and we are not far from that now. Had our national leaders in Washington (an oxymoron, for sure) considered the choice between Saddam Hussein and someone worse in the first place, Jay Leno could have posed one of his standard questions: Who do you root for? The answer: You root for the best interests of the United States and world stability. Bush and each member of Congress voted to invade Iraq rooted for risking even greater chaos.

This is basically what i saw saying in response to Igloo's article that stated that Iraqi's now have a better life.. Somehow the writer of the article was justifying the war on the fact that Iraqi's now live a better life.. Which is very debatable.. but honestly was that our goal? Was it really worth it? Did we really send our men to die for Iraqi freedom and for them to have a better life?

I expected a post like this.. no intelligent words, just pure insults.. Mr. Mahs- you might not have the same views as I.. but I respect your insights and the comments you made.. Igloo on the other is just plain worthless

Have actually studied Piaget's experiment.. I'm currently in graduate school for Criminal Justice.. and I can give you plenty of studies that show crime is caused from poverty.. I don't think anyone has any answers on what 1 factor causes crime..

but really.. should we invade North Korea and help them from the #1 dictator in the world Kim Jong II.. or maybe go to Burma first and take over Than Shwe... or Hu Jintao in China who controls all media, uses spies online and executes 4,000 people a yr?! the list of dictators goes on.. Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, Crown Prince Abdullah, Teodoro Obiang Nguema in Guinea and on and on and on.. so why my friend did we pick Iraq? Easy target? Oil? Better the citizens of Iraq? Weapons of Mass Destruction? Finish what Bush I started? WHY? Igloo, you defintely know.. You herb

guess you wrote the article

Do you honestly write these articles or are they taken from prowar.com? You think George W. declared war with Iraq to make their living conditions better? The improvement is debatable but if it has improved at what cost did we make those living conditions better? 1,000 of American troops have died and BILLIONS of dollars have been spent.. Should we now move on to the next country and risk more American lives and more of our taxpayers money to improve living conditions elsewhere? And now all of a sudden we care about what the Iraqis think about the war? Maybe we should've asked them before we invaded their country?

I'll answer your question.. Yes, I am fucking serious.. now..maybe you can answer mine

so much hate.. why?

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so much hate.. why? This is a message board and people are expressing their views.. relax pal

lol

i neved used either words condem or criticized and was merely asking a question.. why doesn't bush support this killing if he is involved in terror?

Igloo- Why doesn't your boy Bush support this killing?

So, what was I wrong about.. My idea about the poor selling drugs to not be poor is right.. why else would they sell drugs? Yes, it is a easy way out.. but.. To tell you the truth.. If I had to sell some drugs or work two jobs, I might sell drugs also.. Where are you from? Just curious

So, what was I wrong about.. My idea about the poor selling drugs to not be poor is right.. why else would they sell drugs? Yes, it is a easy way out.. but.. To tell you the truth.. If I had to sell some drugs or work two jobs, I might sell drugs also.. Where are you from? Just curious

thanks for clarifying.. RACISM IS NO MORE!! Thanks Mr. Mahs.. Its about time

Funny.. 300 some FBI agents were investigating Clintons personal life with Monica Lewinsky.. maybe they should have been looking at terroristic threats to the US.. Which is more important?

ok so to this day no WMD are found.. so one of your reasons isn't justified.. Saddam has not been linked at all to 911 or any other terroristic threats.. There goes another reason.. He sure is a brutal dictator, but we have plenty more in the world that are worse then he.. So, to this day.. How can you say the war was justified? Once again there is no need to call someone that disagrees with your view a moron or a jerkoff..

ok.. so what do we do? what is your suggestion?

wait.. i'm still not exactly sure what the war was over.. was it to fight the 'war on terror'? or to help the Iraqis from a brutal leader? Did anyone catch 60minutes tonight or Clarke's book that is coming out tomorrow? Probably the best terror expert in the U.S. who worked under Reagan, Bush1 and Bush2 said Bush is doing a horrible job fighting terror.. He believes he is making thinks worse.. He doesn't think Iraq has any connections to Terror.. That is why you see these protesters.. Because the majority of OUR country did not agree with going to war with Iraq at the time we did..

ok so you are a single mother of 1 or more children living in poverty.. your answer is to join the military and work for uncle sam.. what happens to the children?

you all make very general comments about the poor.. Some are having children out of wedlock because they can't afford the proper sexual protection or medical coverage that the average american should have.. They are dealing drugs because they have no other way to make money.. They don't want to be poor.. They just don't have many opportunities..

its funny you say that.. I was in Vegas this past weekend also.. I was playing blackjack at the Alladin and some guy from Oklahoma asks me where i'm from.. I say Jersey.. He asks if I know Tommy? He asks if everyone in Jersey is like they are in True Life..