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Pinocchio
rules:- lies that are never questioned
What a Tangled Web We Weave . . .
. . . when first we practice to deceive!
Updated: 06/14/03
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has
weapons of mass destruction.
Dick Cheney
Speech
to VFW National Convention
August 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
September 12, 2002
If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is
once again misleading the world.
Ari Fleischer
Press
Briefing
December 2, 2002
We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
Ari Fleischer
Press
Briefing
January 9, 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
January 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
February 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
February 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 . . . 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.
Colin Powell
Interview
with Radio France International
February 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 Nation
March 17, 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.
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
Washington
Post, p. A27
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.
Neocon scholar Robert Kagan
Washington
Post op-ed
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.
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
We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass
destruction in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld
Fox
News Interview
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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