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| Source | Bill Simpson |
| Date | 04/05/24/01:36 |
| Here are some quote I've been collecting. Maybe I should call them
Tragic and Tragicer:" "We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th." --George Bush, September 18, 2003 "This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq. Now there are some who would like to rewrite history -- revisionist historians is what I like to call them." --George Bush, June 16, 2003 "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." --Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary (Reported in Der Tagesspiegel and Die Welt, 6/4/03) "For reasons that have a lot to do with the US government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on: weapons of mass destruction." --Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary (Reported in Vanity Fair, May, 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 "Most people in intelligence weren't happy with the dossier ... The classic example was the statement that weapons of mass destruction were ready for use within 45 minutes. That information was not in the original draft. It was included in the dossier against our wishes because it wasn't reliable. Most things in the dossier were double-source, but that was single-source and we believe that the source was wrong." --Unnamed senior British official, May 29, 2003 "Saying that they can't find the weapons, and they may never find the weapons, blows an enormous gaping hole through the case for war that was made on both sides of the Atlantic. That has to be investigated - a [Commons] select committee is one way of pursuing it." --Robin Cook, Labour MP and former leader of the House of Commons, May 28, 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 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'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 "We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so." --George W. Bush, Remarks to Reporters, May 3, 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, Apr. 24, 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 "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 ... Today, no nation can possibly claim that Iraq has disarmed. And it will not disarm so long as Saddam Hussein holds power." --George Bush, March 18, 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." --George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003 "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 "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," --Vice President Dick Cheney Aug. 26, 2002 (Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars) |
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