October 7, 2004
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I found the following on MSNBC:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/print/1/displaymode/1098/
Here's a lengthy excerpt:
"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.
[i]
"Right now, Iraq is
expanding and improving facilities that were used
for the production of biological weapons."
-George W. Bush Speech to U.N. General Assembly, Sept. 12, 2002.
[ii]
"We know they have
weapons of mass destruction … There isn't any
debate about it." "[It is] beyond anyone's imagination" that
U.N. inspectors would fail to find such weapons if they were given
the opportunity.
-Donald Rumsfeld, September 2002. [iii]
"If he declares he has
none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is
once again misleading the world."
-Ari Fleischer Press Briefing, Dec. 2, 2002. [iv]
"We know for a fact that
there are weapons there."
-Ari Fleischer Press Briefing, Jan. 9, 2003. [v]
"We know that Saddam
Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass
destruction, is determined to make more."
-Colin Powell Remarks to U.N. Security Council, Feb. 5, 2003.
[vi]
"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. [vii]
“Does Saddam now have
weapons of mass destruction? Sure he does. We
know he has chemical weapons. We know he has
biological weapons. ... How far he’s gone on the nuclear-weapons
side I don’t think we really know. My guess is it’s further than we
think. It’s always further than we think, because we limit
ourselves, as we think about this, to what we’re able to prove and
demonstrate. ... And, unless you believe that we have uncovered
everything, you have to assume there is more than we’re able to
report.”
-Defense Policy Board Chair, Richard Perle, speaking to a Senate Foreign
Relations subcommittee hearing, March, 2003. [viii]
"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 Nation, March 17, 2003. [ix]
"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."
-Ari Fleisher Press Briefing, March 21, 2003. [x]
"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. [xi]
"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. [xii]
"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. [xiii]
[i]
Vice President Dick Cheney, “Vice President Speaks at VFW 103rd
National Convention; Remarks by the Vice President to the Veterans
of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention,” August 26, 2002,
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/08/20020826.html.
[ii]
President George W. Bush, “President’s Remarks at the United Nations General
Assembly; Remarks by the President in Address to the Unitd Nations General
Assembly,” September 12, 2002,
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912-1.html.
[iii]
Mitchell Landsberg, “Ample Evidence of Abuses, Little of Illegal Weapons,”
Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2003, p.1.
[iv]
Ari Fleischer, “Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer,” December 2, 2002,
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/12/20021202-6.html.
[v]
Ari Fleischer, “Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer,” January 9, 2003,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030109-8.html.
[vi]
Colin Powell, “Remarks to the United Nations Security Council,” New York
City, February 5, 2003,
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17300.htm.
[vii]
George W. Bush, “President’s Radio Address,” February 8, 2003,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030208.html.
[viii]
Seymour M. Hersh, “Selective Intelligence; Donald Rumsfeld Has His Own
Special Sources. Are They Reliable?” The New Yorker, May 12, 2003, p.
44.
[ix]
George W. Bush, “Address to the Nation,” March 17, 2003,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.html.
[x]
Ari Fleischer, “Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer,” March 21, 2003,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030321-9.html.
[xi]
David Anthony Denny, “U.S. Central Command report,” March 22, 2003,
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/03032203.htm.
[xii]
Donald Rumsfeld, “This Week with George Stephanopolous,” March 30, 2003,
http://www.dod.gov/news/Mar2003/t03302003_t0330sdabcsteph.html.
[xiii]
Colin Powell, Remarks after “NBC’s Meet the Press,” Washington D.C., May 4,
2003,
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/20166.htm.
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